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

Dayspring Christian Academy of Attleboro inducted eight new members into its chapter of the National Junior Honor Society during a special ceremony held Friday night, May 2, at the adjacent South Attleboro Assembly of God Church.

          Six students previously inducted were also feted during the dignified and formal ceremony, which lasted for 45 minutes. It marked the fifth time in school annals that a NJHS induction had occurred.

          The new inductees included eighth-grader s Alex Boedeker, Alexandria Brown, Christine DiPaah-Afriyie, Brianna Stanford, Jordan Stanford and Caleb Vargas, as well as seventh-graders Tatum Bisch and Garmodeh Willie.

The repeat inductees were eighth-graders Lianna Derr, Brooke Fontaine, Gabby Granata, Anneka Ignatius, Noelani Noel and Juliana Phillips.

          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); pledges and prayers led by Gabrielle Freeman; the singing of “I Stand Amazed” by the school’s choir; a candle-lighting ceremony highlighting the NJHS’s five pillars of scholarship, leadership, citizenship, service and character by Fontaine, Ignatius, Derr and Granata; a faculty charge from teacher Deryck Mason; and recitation of the NJHS pledge by Theroux and the new inductees.

          Inductees received their NJHS pins from their parents to conclude the ceremony.

          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.