National Honor Society

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 (follow STEP ONE and STEP TWO below) and faculty evaluations on file by Tuesday, April 6, 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

STEP ONE: Students should fill out the NHS Service Hours Spring 2021 - STUDENT FORM for each separate organization they volunteered for.

STEP TWO: 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)

Induction:  

If selected by the faculty committee for induction, students will be invited to participate in the induction ceremony in May.  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