National Honor Society takes on new role at Bishop Guertin

Bishop Guertin High School’s National Honor Society has higher goals for this year than it has had in the past. The NHS aims to take a more active role in the Bishop Guertin community through promoting school spirit and conducting volunteer work. To achieve this goal, a new system has been implemented. Now, each NHS member must not only maintain his or her GPA, but also accumulate five points by the end of the year. Points are earned in three categories: school events, school spirit and volunteer work. They’re awarded when students have shown that they participated in an individual event in these categories. For example, tutoring could count as a school event and attending band concerts would be considered school spirit. The National Honor Society hopes to have a positive impact on the school through this new system. The NHS has a new adviser, Latin and history teacher Daniel Gioffre, who advocated member activism and created an executive board of five students, all seniors, who coordinate the NHS activities. The members of the board are President Anna Fitzgerald, Vice President Olivia Crane and members Clay Anderson, Barbara Duckworth and Melissa Fitzgerald. Their first task was to create the points system, which has been effective so far in inspiring NHS members to make positive contributions to the Bishop Guertin community. In fact, one student has already earned his five points – senior Robert Cueva, the Executive Student Council president. “Since this is my senior year, I want to be as involved as I possibly can, even though I already have my five points, to be an active, positive member of the BG community,” Cueva said. National Honor Society applicants must show that they have demonstrated leadership, service, instances of being a positive role model and participation in various activities through a self-evaluation form.