Barker Middle School’s John H. Barker Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society welcomed 63 new members at its induction ceremony on May 15 in the school gymnasium. They joined 73 current seventh and eighth graders who were already members.
Leading the ceremony were NJHS sponsor, teacher Amy Harmon, and student officers Kaitlyn Steinhiser (President), Julia Wahl (Vice President), Madlen Farless (Secretary) and Nikki Pomeroy and Kylie Filipiak (Treasurers). Readers taking part included Sydney Kohn (Scholarship), Cody Roach (Service), Kylie Filipiak (Leadership), River Richardson (Character) and Dalin McCully (Citizenship).
The 2012-13 inductees include:
Jackson Attar, Brooklyn Bailey, Robert Bartholomew, Greta Beck, Elliot Bogart, Jada Bosserman, Jaklyn Bosserman, Jordyn Bosserman, Jared Brinkman, Skylar Brinkman, Gavin Buchanan, Cade Clarkson, Hallee Combs, Evangelea Dabagia, Cassidy Downs, Cheyanne Elam, Lydia Fuller, Simone Gill, Emily Gushrowski, Kasey Halfacre, Camille Hall, Brianna Howard, Zoe Huff, Emily Hundt, Sarah Hyska, Emily Kinney, Hans Klingenmeier, Elizabeth Klinger, Nicholas Koepke, Tommy Komay, Bailee Laux, Hannah LeCount, Alyssa Mannaioni, Braxton Martorano, Mikala McCullough, Sydney Merrill, Aryanna Miller, Meghan Miller, Kelsie Nichols, Jackson Nowatzke, Alexis Oman, Christopher Ormsby, Riley Plummer, Alex Pomeroy, Madison Richards, Allison Ruhe, Eli Schoof, Meghan Shepherd, Tyler Siegmund, Megan Sitar, Morgan Skonieczny, Sydney Starks, Reina Steppe, Devon Stromer, Peyton Switzer, Grace Thomas, Chase Triplett, Jordan Tuel, Samantha Vanaman, Claire Westphal, Viktoria Wilson, Samantha Wojcik, and Grace Wyness.
Several eighth graders also received special awards during the induction ceremony. They included: Coleton Bailey and Sara Siegmund (Character), Haley Buchanan and Miszelina Twardus (Citizenship), Megan Gushrowski and Nicole Pomeroy (Scholarship), Karmen Halfacre and Kaityln Steinhiser (Leadership) and Michael Kring and Allyson Richards (Service).
Barker National Junior Honor Society members performed more than 2,100 hours of community service over the past year, most of them exceeding the chapter’s minimum service requirement of 30 hours.