The National Honor Society was established by the National Association of Secondary School Principals in 1921, with the purpose to recognize outstanding high school students. More than just an honor roll, NHS serves to honor those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character.
Four main pillars have guided chapters of NHS from the beginning: to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership and to develop character in the students of secondary schools. These pillars also translate into the criteria used for membership selection in each local chapter.
Invitation, Selection & Induction Process:
Changes to NHS Selection Criteria for the Spring of 2021 due to COVID
The selection committee at East High School has made the decision to modify the criteria somewhat for the Spring 2021 class of inductees. Decisions regarding criteria for the Spring of 2022 will be made in the Fall of 2021.
Selection Criteria |
Standard |
Spring 2021 |
Cumulative GPA |
3.5 or above |
3.5 or above |
Extra Curricular Activity |
1 or more school-based extracurricular activity (clubs, sports, etc.) in each of years 10,11,(12) or 9,10,11, 12 |
1 or more school-based or community-based extracurricular activity in at least one of grades 9,10,11, or 12 |
Volunteer Service Hours (independently verified) |
30 or more hours, dating from summer after 8th grade and no later than the hours verification deadline. |
15 or more hours, dating from the summer after 8th grade and no later than March 1, 2021 |
Faculty Rating Score --Scholarship --Character --Leadership |
Average of 3.5 or above on a 5-point scale (Only faculty who know the student personally may complete ratings.) |
Average of 3.5 or above on a 5-point scale (Only faculty who know the student personally may complete ratings.) |
Invitations to the East High School chapter of the National Honor Society
Juniors or Seniors who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or above at the end of their first semester will receive an invitation via email to apply to NHS. (Seniors who are already members do NOT need this invitation.) Invitations will be emailed to students after the first semester grades have been posted. Receiving an invitation does not guarantee admittance; during the course of the complete application process, interested students must demonstrate that all criteria noted above have been met.
Application Deadline
All students who apply to NHS must have at least the minimum number of service hours completed and properly documented, a complete application and faculty evaluations on file by Monday, March 1, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Students are not responsible for collecting faculty evaluations, but they may assist in encouraging teachers to participate in the school-wide collection of these ratings.
Qualifying Volunteer Hours Information
A minimum of 15 documented service hours is required for application to East’s chapter of NHS for the Spring of 2021. It is the student’s responsibility to see that community service student and supervisor forms are completed on time. Please note that, although NHS acknowledges the educational and community value of all students’ extracurricular commitments, time spent in activities which result in direct material benefit to the student can not be counted as community service. (For example, hours at a paid summer internship, or time spent fundraising for a trip that students will be taking themselves will not count. Programs which raise general funds in addition to student support funds may receive either full or partial hour allowances and are considered on a case-by-case basis via direct communication between the NHS selection committee and program supervisors. ) Under no circumstances can a close relative (parent/guardian/grandparent/aunt/uncle etc.) provide a signature for verification of community service.
Volunteer Hours Verification Process
Students should fill out the NHS Service Hours Spring 2021 - STUDENT FORM for each separate organization they volunteered for.
Students should then provide the supervisor of each separate organization they volunteered for with the link to the NHS Service Hours Spring 2021 - SUPERVISOR VERIFICATION FORM (to copy the link, hover over the name of form, then right click and copy the link, paste the link into an email to the supervisor)
Questions and Drop-In Support
More information about NHS and the application process will be available at optional drop-in Zoom meetings.
- Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 at 11:45am
- Tuesday January 5th, 2021 at 3:45pm
- Thursday, January 7th at 10:00am
Induction:
If selected by the faculty committee for induction, students will be invited to participate in the induction ceremony in April. The format of this ceremony is yet to be determined due to COVID. Once inducted, National Honor Society members will be expected to attend meetings throughout the school year, complete NHS sponsored service projects and adhere to the written National Honor Society Code of Conduct.
Contact:
Cynthia Chin, NHS Selection Committee Chair
Judy Gump, NHS Chapter Advisor
2020 Inductees:
Anderson, Martha
Anton, Evelyn
Bandera, Piper
Barut, Maya
Blake, Georgia
Chavarria, Iris
Clexton, Egan
Cohan, Marin
Coleman, Samuel
Decoster, Frederick
Dillenburg, Eleanor
Eberle, Samuel
Gandjui, Khatib David
Gonzalez-De Vicente, Kathleen
Gottschalk, Kira
Guadarrama Santibanez, Arturo
Gundlach, Sophia
Hanson, Fineus
Her, Nongnah
Hewett, Ashlie
Hildal, Nicholas
Hillestad, Sara
Ivanova, Sonam
Jacobson, Joshua
Johnson, Elizabeth
Jungbluth, Bergen
Kingslien, Louie
Kondrashov, Ellis
Kunkle-Schoen, Josephine
Le, Quynh Anh
Link, Jacob
Lisenbee, Emil
Lockridge, Farren
Loeb, Leila
Madden, Xavier
Martinez, Pedro
Matyka, Maria
Maya-Johnson, Clio
McConley, Grace
Monat, Naomi
Monroy, Renata
Mucino Meza, Desteny
Parenteau, Anne
Paulowski, Callie
Puleo, Celia
Qaderi, Mahnaaz
Reiner, Sophia
Rettmann, Malachi
Roth-Dunn, Isabella
Schafman, Isabella
Terrab, Malik
Thao, Annie
Xiong, Touzong
Xistris, Adeline