The Verona High School chapters of the Chinese, French and Spanish national honor societies recently inducted 38 students into their ranks.
The Chinese Honor Society welcomed Phoebe Chu, Melanie Egan, Zachary Hatcher, Timothy Kiernan, Lucy Yu Murray, Alexandra Smith, Jillian Sprong, Natalie Wertz and Suze Zhang.
The French Honor Society recognized Amanda Albelin, Parthenia Bogdady, Matthew Carroll, Juliana Conlon, Ciarra Davison, Gabrielle Discafani, Nikita Joshi, Jillian Lanese, Chelsi Napoli, Kendall O’Neill, Christina Oster, Daniel Smillie and Jane Szybist.
The inductees into the Spanish Honor Society were Briana Andolino, Nicholas Cariani, Luke Catania, Felicia Erickson, Soufieh Hakimzadeh, Katherine Kast, Daniel Li, Diana Moczula, Jasmine Okafor, Jessica Parsons, Matthew Rubins, Jordan Seubert, Ahnie Simonian, Alexandra Szilagyi, Briana Tedesco and Catherine Tracy.
The afternoon ceremony included several student performances in the different languages. Michael Bartell and Evan Yee performed “Call Me Maybe”, which had been translated into Chinese by Lucy Yu Murray. Joanna Eliasof and Matt Brehne presented Jaques Prevert’s “Le Cancre”, and Gabi Campos and Kelli Foy performed “El dia que me quieras”.
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