National Junior Honor Society Community Service

Founded in 1929, the National Junior Honor Society was created to “recognize and encourage academic achievement while developing other characteristics essential to citizenship in a democracy.” The ideals of scholarship, character, service, leadership, and citizenship – which are the pillars of the society – remain as important today as they were in 1929. At Overbrook, in the Thomas Aquinas Chapter, the National Junior Honor Society strives to recognize the total student: one who excels in all areas. To be considered for the NJHS, seventh- and eighth-graders must have a cumulative average of a 90% or better in both the first and second quarter grading periods, with no single grade being below an 86%. Throughout the year, NJHS members engage is leadership and service opportunities which serve our school and outside agencies.

News about NJHS:

2011 inductees to the NJHS

Inductees for this year are:

Gaby Aparicio

Morgan Byerlay

Madeline Castle

Lauren Cianciolo

Chesna Climaco

Brannan Davis

Frances Fitzgerald

Emma Forrest

Anna Fortune

Yohana Gomez

Ty Hamilton

Elizabeth Harris

Lucy Horrell

Colleen Kemp

Caroline Kohl

Diane Lee

Tess MacCurdy

Aine McGinn

Ana-Darielle Nunez

Gracie Rayome

Grace Rolman

Sarah Taylor

Patience Thompson

Talia Vaughan

Madison Williams

Grace Zylstra

Pledge

I pledge myself to uphold the high purposes of the National Junior Honor Society to which I have been selected, striving in every way by word and deed to make its ideals, the ideals of my school, and of my life.