October 25, 2023
By Landry Brewer
Several Elk City High School students are new members of a 104-year-old honor society that’s had an Elk City chapter for 31 years.
ECHS recently held this year’s National Honor Society induction ceremony at the Pioneer Center. Seven officers were inducted along with 39 new members.
Earlier this semester, NHS members elected this year’s seven officers: President Kamdyn Walter, Co-Vice Presidents MacKinley Brewer and Brayden Duncan, Secretary Mylee Moran, Treasurer Becky Yang, Reporter Wyatt McConnell, and Historian Max Murray.
The 39 new members were chosen by the ECHS Faculty Council, which governs the school’s NHS chapter.
Elk City High School NHS members must be sophomores, juniors, or seniors who maintain very high grades and exhibit exemplary behavior befitting organization members.
From its inception, the NHS’s mission has been to foster scholarship, service, leadership, and character.
At the recent ECHS induction ceremony, Vice President Brayden Duncan lit four candles, each representing one of these four qualities. As she did so, other officers explained each member’s obligation to adhere to them.
Afterward, NHS President Kamdyn Walter asked the inductees, who were seated in the crowd, to stand and recite the NHS pledge with her.
Then, as the new members’ names were called, they walked across the Pioneer Center stage and received membership certificates.
The National Honor Society was begun by Edward Rynearson, principal of the Fifth Avenue High School in Pittsburgh, Pa., 104 years ago. Rynearson wanted to create a society to cultivate character and leadership among high school students, so he proposed such an organization at the 1919 convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
The Elk City High School National Honor Society chapter has inducted members since 1992.
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