Fifteen O’Neal Upper School students were inducted into the National Honor Society on Thursday, Nov. 18.
During the ceremony, current members presented each of the four characteristics of membership: scholarship, leadership, service and character. Students must demonstrate excellence in these areas, in addition to maintaining a certain grade-point average to be considered for the National Honor Society.
The standard GPA for induction to the National Honor Society is 3.0; however, The O’Neal School requires a 3.60 GPA for consideration. Head of Upper School Matt Peal was the guest speaker.
New inductees are Class of 2022 — Alexandra Barnwell, Tshering Blackwell, Jake Hanley, Kristin Howell, Jacob Lemons, Connor Smitherman, Madelyn Vaswani. Class of 2023- Brooklyn Adams, Maxwell Epstein, Reese Fisher, Alexsandra Lapple, TJ McGraw, Kanye McKeithen, Emma Grace Sager, Oliver Simpson.
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