National Honor Society

By: Johanna Mathieu

"The purpose of NHS is to provide volunteer services to the community," Aimée Jack, president, explains. This year the club has set many goals and is on the way to achieving them. In an effort to get NHS to become a more established extracurricular activity, Jack says that this year the club hopes to "boost the level of activity with its members, work with more children, and hopefully get an after-school reading program started."

Club officers were elected after last spring after all members were inducted in June. In addition to club president Aimée Jack, officers include Vice President Tom Deschense, Secretary Danielle Grard, Treasurer Jess Landry, and Historian Doug Castongauy. The NHS advisor is English teacher Mrs. Diane Malinski. The club itself has 55 members who all qualified to be part of NHS by having at least a 87.5 GPA and being involved in at least two extracurricular activities.

So far this year NHS already has some projects up and going. During Spirit Week they sponsored the ever-so-popular tug o' war contest. Also, members participated in the Multipurpose Center's Halloween Party. Next they will help stage a professional wrestling show to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters. This will be held November 5 at 7:00 PM in the LHS gymnasium and will include matches between professional wrestlers and between LHS alumni. Also, in a special presentation, the age-old question, "What's better? Math or Science?" will be answered when LHS science teachers Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Fuller take on math teachers, Mr. Kachmar and Mr. Nolan. After this fund-raiser the group plans to write letters to children at Christmas.

All in all NHS members look forward to an exciting year. According to Jack participation in community service activities and fund-raising projects is "a time-consuming, yet rewarding job!"