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45 students inducted into SSHS Nat’l Honor Society
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Posted on Jan 23 2020
A total of 45 students were inducted into the Saipan Southern High School National Honor Society last Monday at the Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
A total of 45 sophomores, juniors, and seniors were inducted into Saipan Southern High School’s National Honor Society in a candlelit ceremony at the Hibiscus Hall of the Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan.
Following the 18th annual induction ceremony last Monday, SSHS now has 45 NHS members in all, with 22 new members and 23 current members.
Students have to meet certain requirements based on four criteria—scholarship, service, leadership, and character—to gain acceptance into the honor society.
At Monday’s ceremony, guest speaker Glen Hunter emphasized with the group the importance of character building, quoting Martin Luther King Jr.—“Intelligence plus character is the goal of true education”—to make his point.
“As you move forward in life, you will undoubtedly be hit by challenges. Your ability to maintain good character may be challenged. In those moments, I ask that you take a breath, take a pause, and think back to that statement whenever you end each of your meetings — ‘character matters.’ Let that guide you in those moments. We live today in a world, which is closer to the famous ‘dream’ that Martin Luther King Jr. talked about. Today, you are judged by the content of your character,” Hunter said.
The mission of the society is to encourage enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, and to develop character in students.
SSHS-NHS members serve the CNMI community by visiting patients at the hospital and singing Christmas carols to them; hosting the Academic Challenge Bowl; holding beach and campus cleanups; and participating in community events such as the Marianas March Against Cancer and the American Red Cross walkathon.
SSHS-NHS also makes monthly donations to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which treats childhood cancers and pediatric diseases.
