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THE
HONOR SOCIETY PLEDGE
I pledge myself to
uphold the high purposes of the National Honor Society to which I have been
selected. I will be true to the
principles for which it stands. I
will be loyal to my school and will strive in every way to maintain and
encourage high standards of scholarship, service, leadership, and character.
About National Honor Society
The members of the National Honor Society are students in grades
11 and 12. Students in these grades must have attained an accumulative point average of
3.00 or better to be eligible for selection. All students who have attained this point
average are then rated by a faculty committee in three areas - leadership, service, and
character. If they are selected, their parents are notified by a letter from the advisors.
An induction ceremony will be held to honor these inductees.
The Port Allegany Chapter of the National Honor Society,
organized in 1923, is one of the oldest organizations of our school.
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A History of the National Honor Society
"If a society with many chapters commends itself to the
school of a certain district because each is helped by e other, a nationwide
society ought to be a stronger organization and receive the support of all of
the schools that believe in such a society. Will not one common badge for the
entire country be more valuable than many different local badges?"
Edward Rynearson, often considered the founder of the
National Honor Society, mad the above remarks in support of the proposal of J.G.
Masters, principle of Central high school in Omaha, Nebraska, to form a National
Honor Society. At the time, Rynearson was principle of the Fifth Avenue high
school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was awarded charter number one of the
National Honor Society. Masters made his proposal in 1919 at the annual
convention of he National Association of Secondary school principles. The
resolution to form the National Honor Society was passed in the hope that
unification of effort might lead to improved National standards. Thus, the
National Honor Society was regarded form its inception as a concrete way to
promote high school academic standards, a means of ensuring the continuation of
democracy, and an instrument for the betterment of the individual and the
school.
The society has flourished: today, after more than 75 years,
more that 12,500 chapters are chartered. The National Junior Honor Society,
founded in 1929, has also experienced encouraging development with more that
6,000 chapters. |