Honor Society Inductions

Ten Pennington School seniors were inducted on October 15 as student members of the School’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society before an audience of the entire Upper School, faculty, and parents at the Pennington United Methodist Church. Students inducted are within the top 10 percent of the class, as determined by grade point average, and the School views selection for membership as one of the highest honors it can confer.

The Cum Laude Society is an international organization recognizing “academic achievement in secondary schools for the purpose of promoting excellence, justice, and honor.” There are approximately 380 institutions in the Society; most are independent schools.

The new members of Cum Laude are Erin Heyeck, Maria Khartchenko, Jenna Kollevoll, Mingjia Liu, Meng Lu, Yaoxin Mo, Deep Patel, Julia Peters, Jenna Soliman, and Yiren Zhou.

Students at The Pennington School were inducted into national honor societies for world languages and the arts in an evening ceremony held at the School on Tuesday, December 10. The students, almost all juniors or seniors, have met academic and other standards required by the national societies as well as the School’s chapters. The inductions were held in the Wesley Forum in the School’s Yen Humanities Building. Names of the students honored are listed below. In addition to the inductions, there were instrumental, vocal, and dramatic performances by new and current members of the honor societies.

2019 inductees:

French National Honor Society: Seniors Ian Albuquerque, Kofoworola Jolaoso, and Sydney Shah; juniors Kailey Dierk, Safa Morrison, Babacar Niang, Trinity Pryor, and Cihan Sahin

German National Honor Society: Seniors Maria Khartchenko, Mingjia Liu, and Meng Lu; juniors Benjamin Eckerson, Oliver Gassmann, Sahil Navani, and William Thompson

Latin National Honor Society: Juniors Trinity Pryor, Isabella Rossi, Madelyn Saltstein, and Shealyn Tirendi

Spanish National Honor Society: Seniors Rickey Eng, Xinyi Li, Deep Patel, and Yiren Zhou; juniors Alexandra Childrey, Corinne Coakley, Alexander Huang, Stas Korzeniowski, Tarun Kumar, Rohit Pothacamury, Cihan Sahin, Joshua Song, and Julian Thomas

Tri-M Music Honor Society: Seniors Gabriela Montero, Molly Nelson, and Artem Rukavishnikov; juniors Xingrui Chen, Sushuang Lu, Cihan Sahin, and William Thompson

International Thespian Society: Seniors Elise Hawkey, Christopher Long, and Jenna Soliman; juniors Danielle Bancroft, Emily Barkley, Matthew Cooper, Madeline Fox, Ashley Goldberg, Alexander Huang, Sara Kestenbaum, Robert Lambdin, Sampo Lintula, Robert Moran, Trinity Pryor, Benjamin Robertson, Isabella Rossi, and Nicole Salak

National Art Honor Society: Seniors Alexa Lepold, Tsung Yuen Tung, Alexandria Ume, and Harper Usiskin; juniors Tiia McKinney and Isabella Rossi