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SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. Sleepy Hollow High School Principal Carol Conklin-Spillane presides over many events during the school year. She admitted on Wednesday night to playing favorites.
I must admit that amongst my favorites is the induction every year of students into the National Honor Society, she said. The National Honor Society inducted 68 students into their organization in a candlelight ceremony in the high school auditorium.
Parents, teachers and friends gathered to watch as inductees were praised for their accomplishments and character. Lets have this be an awesome beginning of all the wonderful things that are yet to come, Conklin-Spillane said.
Student officers led the candlelight ceremony before the juniors and seniors accepted their NHS pins and took the Honor Society pledge. Each officer lit one candle representing five National Honor Society characteristics: knowledge, service, scholarship, character and leadership.
Treasurer Alex Mendonca urged new inductees to consider the fact that great scholars such as Galileo and Socretes started as students much like you all today. Every single one of you has more resoures than Socretes and Galileo could have imagined, he said, advising students to use the opportunities and experiences they have to achieve unimaginable feats.
President Sara Rennert encouraged students to be a leader and make the world a brighter place. You might not be the captain or president, but being there to make an impact can make you as much as a leader as anyone else, she said. So know that whether or not you become an officer of this society or any other activities you participate in doesn't make you any less capable of making a difference.
National Honor Society Inductees
Maria Alvarez
Gian Carlo Banting
Gabriela Barnier
Krista Bucci
Genesis Lema
Sofia Pinho
Bruna Reis
Lucas Swenson
Ranggy Tapia
Ailin Xiao
Danielle Abou-Rjeili
Emmanuel Alcantara
Jovana Alejandro
Sebastian Ardaix
Camille Aulagner
Jholeena Banting
Marisa Barbera
Maya Bauer-Moshi
Jacqueline Bischof
Emilie Bogusz
Marlee Carayol
Daniella Carissimo
Nathaniel Caspari
Sarah Cerbone
Nathanael Christian
Megan Copley
Laura Epstein
Brittany Galante
Emily Geiger
Camila Gaudin Gonzalez
Ma. Tricia Guarin
Ian Harbus
David Hargrove
Ryan Higgins
Christopher Hutter
Amina Ishmail
Jean Kim
Erica Vanessa Jimenez
Alexandra Kendrick
Austin-Tyler Lantz
Natalie LaRue
David Maldonado
Madeline McGovern
Philip Norwood
Kevin Ortiz
Madison Ortiz
Thomas Pardo
Timothy Pepe
Elizabeth Pisapia
Annie Plotkin
Felipe Reis
Syndee Rhoden
Marco Picchiuti
Marlen Rosario
Zoe Rosenberger
Liana Samoyedny
Patrick Sampaio
John Schnog
Nicola Shannon
Leidy Suero
Kevin Sullivan
Erika Swanson
Abigael Titcomb
Benjamin Tschan
Breanne Tuohy
Skarlen Valentin
Nicholas Yawman
Julia Vallo
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