On Monday night, Russellville High School held its annual National Honor Society induction ceremony at the Russellville City Schools Auditorium.
The National Honor Society describes itself as “the nation’s premier organization established to recognize outstanding high school students” and its goal is to “recognize those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of scholarship, service, leadership, and character.”
The Russellville High School chapter of the National Honor Society, which was established in 1969, recognized 51 active senior members and inducted 67 new members, including 12 graduating seniors. The other 55 inductees are juniors.
As a requirement of the society, candidates and members are required to complete community service hours. This year’s senior members completed 306 community service hours for a total of 612 service hours over the last two years. The 12 senior candidates inducted completed 144 service hours.
The 55 junior candidates completed 330 hours of community service.
During the ceremony, active senior members and senior inductees received gold National Honor Society stoles that they will wear at graduation. Junior inductees were also recognized and joined the senior members on stage.
The American Red Cross also recognized three senior members for their hard work and service. NHS president Logan Wallace, Brenda Moreno, and NHS vice president Layne Boyd received scholarships from the Red Cross to the tune of $750, $1000, and $1500, respectively.
Each year, the Russellville chapter of the National Honor Society holds a blood drive. It is the largest annual blood drive in the southeastern United States, according to the Red Cross representative.
In 2017, the Russellville-hosted blood drive saw a donation of 320 pints of blood. According to the Red Cross representative, over 2000 pints of blood have been donated at Russellville since the RHS chapter started the blood drive campaign over 10 years ago.
NHS Senior Members:
Jorge Bahena, Maria Bahena, Layne Boyd, Kayla Cochran, Kalli Beth Daniel, Ashlee Davidson, Sayuri Diego, Ariana Duran, Vanessa Fonseca, Nate Franklin, Catelyn Franks, Lariza Garcia-Delgado, Ixchel Gonzalez, Monica Gonzalez, Charles Gordon, Cody Greenhill, Melissa Hernandez, Katie Howard, Jessica Itter, Caroline Jackson, Joshua King, Madison Lamon, Pedro Lucas, Caleb Mayfield, Amanda Miguel, Mercedes Mitchell, Raul Mojica, Stephanie Monterroso, Gracie Moore, Brenda Moreno, John Tyler Morgan, Leah Nix, Tristan Patrick, Leslie Perez-Belverde, Hailey Peters, Makayla Phifer, Sierra Prince, Melanie Ramirez, Ashley Rose, Kevin Salgado, Carley Seal, Dakota Shook, Alexander Smith, Karson Steele, Austin Stidham, Andres Vargas, Kaidin Wallace, Slate Wallace, Logan Wallace, Judd Ward, Alissa Young
NHS Senior Inductees:
Andrea Ashley-Sebastian, Trejon Bonds, Mara Fernandez-Cuevas, Mallory Haddock, Evelin Lopez, Omar Mojica, Bailey Motes, Gabriel Pedro-Jua, Chloe Pounders, Alexis Siquina, Chelsea Suddith, Chad Wray
NHS Junior Inductees:
Irma Ajualip-Huarcas, Amanda Antunez, John David Aycock, Karem Bailon Luna, Daniel Balding, Jesus Betancourt-Garcia, Calen Bragwell, Laken Brown, Allison Bryant, Sydney Burcham, Solai Camacho, Gabrielle Cook, Eleanor Counts-Kerby, Allyson Deras, Madison Fite, Kacie Fleming, Kesciley Fletcher, Juana Francisco-Mendez, Stephanie Fuentes, Mia Gann, Leslie Garcia, Maleia Gist, Noah Gist, Preston Goad, Evan Green, Madison Hargett, Xaria Hollingsworth, Kevin Hughes, Elizabeth Jenkins, Layne Johns, Houston Kitterman, Brock Malone, Licet Marquez, Maria Matias-Francisco, Cecelia McLemore, Nayely Mojica, Karli Monroe, Ashton Moore, Emily Murray, Gisselle Oliva-Lucas, Jenny Ordonez-Lopez, John David Palmer, Rebecca Parrish, Carmen Perez, Zayra Perez, Marian Ramirez-Escobar, Tom Barkely Scott, Jocelyne Solares, Brittany Stalker, Samuel Tomas, Cameron Vandiver, Jaret Ward, Brianna Weeks, Brianna Wood, Elizabeth Woodall
