The National Honor Society has grown into a bigger organization, inviting new recruits for the many available positions. This year at Troy High School, there are two new advisors who committed to this organization.
For many years, the National Honor Society has been an ongoing and successful organization, hosted by many schools. One of them being Troy High School. The purpose of this organization is to provide community service to those who want to help out and to those who need it. Some services include tutoring and concessions. In order for someone to take part in this organization, new advisor Lisa Kline says, “getting into this, into the organization has like a lot of different criteria that depends on service, but the other things like your character, your leadership and your grade point.”
What makes this position so interesting is getting to see and work with over 500 students. Kline states, “I did it at the previous school that I taught at, and I just, I like enjoyed doing it. It was good to know, you know, students.”
Meanwhile, advisor Marissa Drake says, “I also was a National Honor Society when I was a student in high school and I just think it’s a really important organization and I think it’s something that values a lot in terms of character and leadership, and I think that’s something I care about”, implying that the National Honor Society can have a good impact on people.
There were also some challenges that came along to when being the advisor of the organization. According to ex-advisor Ryan Werenka, who had worked for two years and says one of the main hardships he faced was “doing a lot of advisory work” and “I do work with the National Constitution Center,” along with many other duties he has, so therefore he couldn’t fit being the advisor into his schedule.
Alongside the challenges that came with the position, there were many highlights throughout the years advisors worked in. Werenka says, “Highlights were again getting to work with some really great students and seeing all the cool community service opportunities that students could participate in.”
The president of the National Honor Society has many future plans and current plans as well. Ella McCallister president of the Nation Honor Society states, “Well right now we’re planning the induction ceremony which is like a pretty big undertaking just because there’s lots of things to organize and there’s a lot of information that we have to share with the new inductees this year, so we’re just kind of focusing in getting people like starting to volunteer and things like that.” The induction ceremony consists of speeches from the school administrators, formal inductees and officers showing that there is indeed lots to prepare for before the ceremony begins.
When asked what are some pros and cons to being the president of the National Honor Society, McCallister said that some pros are “working with the people that I work with. I know the people on the board, so it’s really fun to like work with them cause I’m like friends with them and then I also really like working with the advisors.”
On the other hand, Mcallister said that some cons are that “it is just kind of a lot to organize, it can be a little bit difficult at times, but I mean we’re all working together so like I’m having a good time.”
McCallister says, “I enjoy it. It’s fun to like you know, get everything together.”
