By JEN COWART The Park View Middle School National Junior Honor Society has started off the school year, full-speed ahead, nominating and voting in officers, and hosting their first fundraiser of the year, all before Thanksgiving. Madison Louro, Rachael
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The Park View Middle School National Junior Honor Society has started off the school year, full-speed ahead, nominating and voting in officers, and hosting their first fundraiser of the year, all before Thanksgiving.
Madison Louro, Rachael Cabral, Chelsie Abatiello, Arianna Cunha, and Christina Gomes were elected to the offices of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Historian after being nominated by their peers.
“The students had to submit reasons why they felt that these particular students were the best fit for the job,” said one of the NJHS faculty advisors, Cara Fitzgerald. “They were given the job descriptions for each role to go by.”
The positions were filled with this year’s eighth-grade students who were part of the honor society last year as seventh-graders. As the year progresses, the honor society will expand further, welcoming more students once grades have been posted for the first half of the school year.
“After the second quarter, it will be open to any seventh and eighth-graders with an 85 average or better in all of their subject areas,” said Ann Marie Torres, another of the faculty advisors for the honor society, which was started at Park View just last year.
On November 2, the NJHS will host its first fundraiser of the year, at Talbot’s in Garden City.
“The whole store will be 30 percent off that day, and 10 percent of all sales will go to our NJHS if we are mentioned,” said Torres. “We will have students visible there at the store after school, letting people know.”
According to Fitzgerald and Torres, the students will be brainstorming more ideas for upcoming service projects and activities for the rest of school year.
“Last year we did birthday bags for CCAP,” Torres said. “They may want to do that again, and make that one of their annual service projects, because they really liked it, or they may want to branch out and do something totally different.”
The “Fashionable Fundraiser” at Talbot’s is the first of its kind for the honor society and the group is thankful for the support of a community partner, and hoping for great success.
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