The Cook County High School branch of the National Honor Society held its induction ceremony on April 23. In the front row are new inductees (L-R) Annika Stone, Molly Zafft, Ashley Deschampe, David Bergstrom, Ashley Ross, Cecelia Olsen, Michaela Buchheit. (L-R, middle) Sarissa Falk, Sterling Anderson, Mara MacDonell, Katie Vander Heiden, Colin Everson. (L-R, back) Kyle Martinson, Megan Lehto, Anna Carman, Audrey Summers, Ben Seaton, Rachel Wieben. (Not pictured: Sarah Larsen)
The National Honor Society welcomed six new members at its April 23 induction—juniors Kyle Martinson, Ben Seaton, and Rachel Wieben and sophomores Megan Lehto, Anna Carman, and Audrey Summers.
Each spring NHS membership is extended to outstanding students who have shown exceptional accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, leadership, character, and service. The National Honor Society was founded in 1921. In Cook County NHS records go back more than 50 years.
Instead of having an outside speaker, NHS seniors spoke with admiration and humor about each other. Then Advisor Ivy Church presented graduation stoles to the seniors, naming an outstanding trait of each. In honor of April 23 being Shakespeare’s birthday, Church also selected a quotation from Shakespeare that fit each NHS senior.
Also continuing as NHS members are CCHS juniors Sterling Anderson, Colin Everson, Sarissa Falk, Sarah Larsen, Mara MacDonnell, and Katie Vander Heiden.
Shakespearean quotes for each senior
David Bergstrom
• The harder matched,
the greater victory (Henry VI).
• The fewer men,
the greater share of honor (Henry V).
Michaela Buchheit
• Virtue is bold, and goodness
never fearful (Measure for Measure).
Ashley Deschampe
• The game’s afoot.
Follow your spirit (Henry V).
Cecelia Olsen
• What you do still betters
what is done (The Winter’s Tale).
Ashley Ross
• I will believe thou has a mind that
suits with this, thy fair and outward
character (Twelfth Night).
Annika Stone
• She that was fair,
and never proud, had tongue at will,
and yet was never loud (Othello).
Molly Zafft
• She is so free, so kind, so apt,
so blessed a disposition, she holds it
a vice in her goodness not to do more
than she is requested (Othello).
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