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Boulevard students inducted into National Elementary Honor Society
Early honor focuses on scholarship and community service
More than 200 parents and supporters looked on as 42 fourth and
fifth grade students from Boulevard Elementary School were inducted
into the National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS) on Tuesday, Oct.
15, in a ceremony at the school.
To be eligible for the national honor society, students must
maintain a grade point average of 85 or greater and conduct some
type of community or family service. The inductees will now be
expected to follow the honor society’s four pillars of excellence—
scholarship, responsibility, leadership and service.
“The students were really selected based on scholarship and
responsibility, and will be given the opportunity to foster
leadership and service while in the group,” said chapter advisor Sue
Grossi. “Once we have meetings, the students will decide as a group
what district-wide charity event they will be involved with, such as
the Relay for Life event in the spring.”
Boulevard Elementary School is a charter chapter in the NEHS,
joining in April 2008. Committee members include Grade Four Teacher
Brian DiPasquale, School Psychologist Jessica Fliegel, AIS Reading
Coach Diana Adams and Guidance Counselor Sue Grossi.
The NEHS was founded by the National Association of Elementary
School Principals in conjunction with the National Association of
Secondary School Principals, “to recognize elementary students in
both public and non-public elementary schools for their outstanding
academic achievement and demonstrated personal responsibility, to
provide meaningful service to the school and community, and to
develop essential leadership skills in the students of elementary
schools,” according to the NEHS website at www.nehs.org.
“There is something about honoring these students that gets them
focused on the future. Obviously they won’t be thinking about
college in fourth grade, but they will be thinking about how to do
better in school and give back to their communities,” said Grossi.
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