The Rosarian Academy hosted an awards ceremony and induction of new members into the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) on April 11.
During the assembly, 14 new students were inducted into the NJHS based on their scholarship, leadership, character, service and citizenship. The inductees include seventh-grade students Sailor Kate Ashley, Gemma Conroy, Hope Diffenderfer, Devyn Dyett, Gabriela Faber, Isabella Fiorentino, Marlowe Flom, Alana Marchese, Sofia Mendez, Drew O’Brien, Mia Sabol, Max Sanderson, Jack Shepherd and Lacey Steele.
Rosarian NJHS members, led by moderator and teacher Patrick Hansen, participate in a number of community service activities throughout the year, such as leading holiday-themed parties and activities for the disadvantaged children at the Lord’s Place Family Campus, decorating cookies with the children at Opportunity Inc. Learning Center, reading books and playing games with the elderly residents of the Lourdes-Noreen McKeen Retirement Community, organizing a water station for the Race for the Cure, participating in the St. Jude’s Walk, painting a home through the sponsorship of the Solid Waste Authority’s Paint Your Heart Out program, making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to be distributed to vulnerable populations at St. Ann Place and other projects.
ABOVE: New Rosarian National Junior Honor Society inductees.
