53 students inducted into MCS honor societies

Newly inducted members of Mount Carmel School’s Immaculate Conception chapter of the National Junior Honor Society gather for a photo with Bishop Ryan Jimenez and school officials. (Contributed Photo)

This past week, 53 students were inducted into Mount Carmel School’s Immaculate Conception Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society and Fr. Arnold Bendowski Chapter of the National Elementary Honor Society.

Bishop Ryan Jimenez opened the induction ceremony with a prayer and a blessing of the candles, representing the values of the honor societies.

School president Galvin Deleon Guerrero challenged he students, whether inducted or not, to see themselves as more than who they are now and all they can be in the future.

Current honor society students explained the respective values of the honor societies. For the NJHS, those values are scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship. As for the NEHS, its values are scholarship, responsibility, leadership, and service.

Students who have a 3.0 grade-point average are invited to apply for membership.

Inductees were identified by the ceremonious “tapping” ritual, in which current honor society members go around tapping inductees on their shoulders and inviting them to the main staging area to take their oaths, receive their membership insignia, and sign into the membership ledger.

Inductees into the Immaculate Conception Chapter of the NJHS are:

• Francine Monique Albuen
• Keehara Nielsen Baldazo
• Kyla Monique Cabrera
• Moeisha Eleanor Cruz
• Kina Dela Cruz
• Raphael Christian Galang
• Lynzey Valencia Green
• Brissa Hunter
• Renee Kiser
• Hannah Lacap
• Mikee Mendoza
• William Kazuki Minami
• Brent Matthew Ortizo
• Manuel Pangelinan
• Mathew Adrian Sablan
• Vince Philip Salvador
• Yurihana Rosa Sasamoto
• Theresa Rose Schweiger
• Mariana Tenorio
• Kristan Rose Torres

Inductees into the Fr, Arnold Bendowski Chapter of the NEHS are:

• Margaret Cabrera
• Irie Kane Camacho
• Elialyn Q. Castro
• Kenneth Castro
• Davina Chae
• Jada Chang
• Nathaniel Clark
• Quimari L. Duenas
• Hong, Eun Kyu
• Claire Regina Kautz
• Angelo Lobo
• Audrein J. Mallari
• Laizza V. Mallari
• Nicole E. Mariano
• Jalen Nicholas
• Manuel Pamintuan
• Breana Y. Patawaran
• Chelsy Anne Reyes
• Aaliyah V. Sablan
• Kiana C. Sablan
• Dylan Santos
• Hitomi Rosa Sasamoto
• Crispin-Joseph Saures
• Maui Silva
• Ranier J. Solis
• Lyssa Rae Steele
• Aryana Carmen A. Taimanao
• Nevaeh Taisacan
• Malina Rose B. Tenorio
• Avah Marie Torres
• Ari James Toskas
• Arturo R. Travilla