39 students inducted into MCS honor societies

This past week, 39 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 of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa was on hand to help celebrate the special occasion. He also opened the induction ceremony with a prayer and a blessing of the candles representing the values of the honor societies.

Soon after the blessing, current honor society students explained the respective values of the honor societies. 

For the NJHS, those values are scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship.

For the NEHS, its values are scholarship, responsibility, leadership, and service.

Students who have a 3.0 GPA fulfill the scholarship value of each society and are invited to apply for membership, for which they must demonstrate that they embody the other values of each respective society.

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.

School president Galvin Deleon Guerrero capped the ceremony with remarks referring to Jesus’s washing of the feet of the apostles. “In this moment, Jesus, even as the son of God, taught us to be humble, to serve others, and to lead by example,” Deleon Guerrero said. “Likewise, you too must humbly serve as leaders.”

Inductees into the Fr. Arnold Bendowski Chapter of the NEHS are: Annieskha Arreza, Aryanna Matsumoto, Chae Kim, Gavril Santiago, Heleyna Dela Santa, Irene Kim, Jada DLGuerrero, Jessiana Tenorio, Joseph Pangelinan, Kai Manning, Lance Javier, Laura Mareham, Lexi Langsangan, Maili Peter, Meagan Camacho, Mikaehla Mendoza, Mya Pangelinan, Oscar Buenaflor, Therese Ogo, Vallerie Estella, William Cano, and Zander Gray.

Inductees into the Immaculate Conception Chapter of the NJHS are Aleia Santos, Andrew Sablan, Avah Marie Torres, Daphne Rylee Cruzana, Devin Jordan Propst, Earle Gabreil San Nicolas, Elisa Ellen Blanco, Eric Oh, Ierlyma Deleon Guerrero, Jill Anne Marie Mallari, Kayannie Peter, Larry Dean Cruz, Leyonne Alfred Tolentino, Maria Torres, Miguel Villegas, Natalie Gabrielle Ano, Raesyl Gerard Solis, Ruben Antonio Guerrero, and Vicente Reyes. (PR)