{"id":9757,"date":"2023-10-09T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=9757"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:00:51","slug":"the-national-honor-society-helps-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/the-national-honor-society-helps-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmira High School&#8217;s National Honor Society Helps the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-1024x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10071\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-1024x452.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-768x339.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-1536x678.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-2048x903.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NHS-2023-570x251.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Elmira High School National Honor Society for 2023-24. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Honor Society \u201cempowers and equips your students with the knowledge and skills to be transformative leaders in your school, community, and beyond,&#8221; according to its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Edward Rynearson, with the help of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nassp.org\/\">National Association of Secondary School Principals<\/a>, created the National Honor Society on March 1, 1921. NHS was created based on four pillars: service, scholarship, character and leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EHS National Honor Society is working on its Red Cross blood drive, which will be held Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Auxiliary Gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Elmira NHS also runs a candy-gram fundraiser during Valentine&#8217;s Day and winter holidays, in which for $1 students can send a message and candy to recipients of their choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS&#8217; other program is the Adopt-a-Family campaign, in which people collaborate to buy Christmas presents for families in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All members of NHS are required to complete at least 40 hours of community service and must have a 3.5 GPA to be eligible to join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Honor Society meets weekly on Wednesdays in Room 26 and is run by EHS English teacher Michelle Nelson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a02023-24 officers are seniors Iris Frome as president, Lillian Ossowski as vice president, Alicia Murdock as secretary and Mari Espinoza as treasurer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors Iris Frome and Lillian Ossowski are elected president and vice president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":10071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-clubs-of-ehs","category-features","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9757"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10112,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions\/10112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}