{"id":316167,"date":"2020-01-23T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=316167"},"modified":"2020-01-23T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:02:53","slug":"45-students-inducted-into-sshs-natl-honor-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/45-students-inducted-into-sshs-natl-honor-society\/","title":{"rendered":"45 students inducted into SSHS Nat\u2019l Honor Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_316168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316168\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Honor-Society-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-316168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Honor-Society-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-316168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A total of 45 students were inducted into the Saipan Southern High School National Honor Society last Monday at the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A total of 45 sophomores, juniors, and seniors were inducted into Saipan Southern High School\u2019s National Honor Society in a candlelit ceremony at the Hibiscus Hall of the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 18th annual induction ceremony last Monday, SSHS now has 45 NHS members in all, with 22 new members and 23 current members.<\/p>\n<p>Students have to meet certain requirements based on four criteria\u2014scholarship, service, leadership, and character\u2014to gain acceptance into the honor society.<\/p>\n<p>At Monday\u2019s ceremony, guest speaker Glen Hunter emphasized with the group the importance of character building, quoting Martin Luther King Jr.\u2014\u201cIntelligence plus character is the goal of true education\u201d\u2014to make his point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you move forward in life, you will undoubtedly be hit by challenges. Your ability to maintain good character may be challenged. In those moments, I ask that you take a breath, take a pause, and think back to that statement whenever you end each of your meetings \u2014 \u2018character matters.\u2019 Let that guide you in those moments. We live today in a world, which is closer to the famous \u2018dream\u2019 that Martin Luther King Jr. talked about. Today, you are judged by the content of your character,\u201d Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the society is to encourage enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, and to develop character in students.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS-NHS members serve the CNMI community by visiting patients at the hospital and singing Christmas carols to them; hosting the Academic Challenge Bowl; holding beach and campus cleanups; and participating in community events such as the Marianas March Against Cancer and the American Red Cross walkathon.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS-NHS also makes monthly donations to the St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, which treats childhood cancers and pediatric diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 45 sophomores, juniors, and seniors were inducted into Saipan Southern High School\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}