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CHS inducts students into the National Honor Society
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Canfield High School junior Morgan Weiss was escorted by her parents Wendy and Stephen Weiss to the National Honor Society Induction Ceremony on April 23.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Canfield High School junior Troy Williams was escorted by his parents Kyra Reid and Greg Williams to the National Honor Society Induction Ceremony on April 23.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Thirty-nine Canfield High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society on April 23.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel was the guest speaker for the Canfield High School National Honor Society Induction Ceremony on April 23.
By ABBY SLANKER
Canfield High School had its annual National Honor Society induction ceremony on April 23, during which 39 students were honored by the society.
Students inducted into the society included Jowad Atway, Delaney Bresnahan, Rosie Bresson, Ben Brucoli, Ryan DiThomas, Taya El-Hayek, Jacob Esarco, Ben Feuer, Samantha Fritz, Heather Haley, Emma Hartshorn, Megan Heagerty, Lily Hodge, David Hofsess, Kasey Hood, Kristen Hood, Justin Jickess, Jeff Joseph, Alexander Kan, Andrew Letscher, Amelia Manenti, Mason Mangapora, Hannah Mattix, Anthony Messuri, Theresa Mikolay, Carlie Oddo, Pragi Patel, Stephen Quirk, Rachel Rosteck, Jared Rothbauer, Stephen Sansoterra, Nicole Schmidt, Sabato Sorice, Alex Thompson, Brianna Thompson, Madalyn Urig, Julian Vitto, Morgan Weiss and Troy Williams.
The student inductees were escorted by their parents into the auditorium and each student was introduced to an auditorium filled with fellow students, friends and family.
As the students were introduced, Canfield High School National Honor Society co-advisers Tim Wensel and Steve Pitts greeted them and presented them with the National Honor Society gold medal, which was placed around their neck. Students then crossed the stage and signed the membership book.
Current senior members of the society spoke on the Four Pillars of the National Honor Society. Vincent Leone spoke on Character, Bisshoy Anwar spoke on Leadership, Taylor Catri-Eakes spoke on Service and Stephen Gant spoke on Scholarship.
“The first step in building character is to establish values in your everyday life,” Leone told the inductees during his speech, after which he lit the candle for character.
Anwar told the students a leader’s role in not to fix every problem, but to show everyone that they can fix the problem on their own.
“A leader’s job is to inspire teammates to do the best they can with their own natural talents,” Anwar said during his speech, after which he lit the candle for leadership.
“What some people don’t understand about service is that it is a two way street, When we help someone, we always get something in return, such as satisfaction and fulfillment,” Catri-Eakes said during her speech, after which she lit the candle for service.
Gant shared his three perspectives on scholarship with the inductees and members of the audience.
“First, scholarship is important for everyone throughout their entire lives. Second, every individual’s version of scholarship is uniquely their own. And third, scholarship is ultimately one of the most important responsibilities for everyone,” Gant said.
Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel was the guest speaker for the ceremony. Tressel spoke on two more pillars he felt are extremely important, gratitude and excellence.
“Everyone should have an attitude of gratitude. We have had more blessings than hardships. We are lucky to live in this Valley, you are lucky to be in this school system with this faculty. You are lucky to have such special parents,” Tressel told the inductees.
Tressel then moved onto excellence.
“You have the freedom to seek to excel. Excellence is something you should seek each and every day and really believe you can achieve it. You have to believe you can reach that level of excellence,” Tressel said.
Tressel ended his speech with encouragement to the inductees.
“You have a great responsibility the seniors have left for you. No matter how you wonder what lies ahead, what you need to do is to challenge one another. If we all just do what it is we do, we will reach that level of excellence,” Tressel said.
Amy Goddard was presented with the Leadership and Service Award, with more than 200 service hours.
The new inductees were then led in the National Honor Society Pledge for Membership, after which they received a standing ovation from their parents, grandparents, friends and teachers.
After the ceremony, inductees and guests enjoyed a reception in the cafeteria which included cookies, fresh fruit, pastries, punch and coffee.