Dayspring Christian Academy Inducts Seven New Members Into National Junior Honor Society

Dayspring Christian Academy of Attleboro inducted seven new members into its chapter of the National Junior Honor Society during a special ceremony held Friday night, May 17, at the adjacent South Attleboro Assembly of God Church.

          Three students previously inducted were also feted during the dignified and formal ceremony, the fourth in school annals, which lasted for just 45 minutes.

          The new inductees included eighth-grader Michael Russell and seventh-graders Lianna Derr, Brooke Fontaine, Gabby Granata, Anneka Ignatius, Noelani Noel and Juliana Phillips. The repeat inductees, initially invested two years ago as sixth-graders, were Emily Ferguson, Tara Iannelli and Sharon Rajadurai.

          In front of relatives, friends, classmates, school faculty members and alumni, the seven new inductees received NJHS certificates, signing the school chapter’s registry of members, and were pinned by parents or special guests.

          The ceremony also featured brief remarks by Frank Rydwansky (DCA Administrator), Kimberly Theroux (NJHS Faculty Adviser) and Robert Lavallee (the school’s Spiritual Adviser); the singing of “Lead Me to the Cross” by Iannelli and Rajadurai; a candle-lighting ceremony highlighting the NJHS’s five pillars of scholarship, leadership, citizenship, service and character by Ferguson, Iannelli and Rajadurai; an alumnae charge by former student Olivia Phillips, who was a three-year member of the NJHS; and recitation of the NJHS pledge by Theroux and the new inductees.

          The National Junior Honor Society is an adjunct of the National Honor Society, which annually inducts thousands of senior high school students throughout the United States. The NJHS is restricted to students in middle school or junior high school.