Published: May 05, 2008 05:05 pm         

Bragg Honor Club taps next year’s members

By Melanie Patterson

The North Jefferson News



Members of the Bragg Middle School Honor Club have designated their successors.

On Thursday, the club hosted an Honor Club tapping ceremony, where the eighth-grade members of the club inducted seventh-graders for next year’s Honor Club.

Criteria for becoming an Honor Club member is based on grades and good character, according to science teacher Joni Shankles.

She said that students must be on the A or A-B honor roll, and must have no discipline problems at school.

Shankles and other teachers helped Honor Club sponsor Rodney Ragland, a Bragg math teacher, coordinate Thursday’s ceremony.

The four standards of the Honor Club are character, service, leadership and scholarship.

The club’s four current officers gave speaches on those topics.

Treasurer Babie Larson spoke about scholarship; secretary Samantha Stedley spoke about character; vice-president Madison Johnson spoke about service and president Nick Getwan spoke about leadership.

Also during the ceremony, the Bragg Middle School Concert Choir, under the direction of Debbie Gray, performed two songs: Agnus Dei and Can You Hear.

The school band, directed by Scott Thompson, played Rock America and Superheroes R Us.

Parliamentarian Bradley Bolden led the seventh-graders in the Honor Club pledge.

Principal Jeff Caufield encouraged the new club members to keep up their grades and to live up to Honor Club standards.

The 80 new members are: Seth Alford, Sarah Ann Allen, Sydney Anderson, Leah Andrews, Sierra Baxter, Katy Belcher, Morgan Belcher, Rachel Brown, Alex Brown, Gullie Bryant, Andrew Burkett, Hannah Burns, Bragan Burns, Carter Burns, Laura Beth Cannon, Jessica Cantrell, Emily Carver, Caroline Casaday, Austin Clements, Rachel Conner, Lakeyia Conner, Graham Conner, Jordan Cornelius, Katherine Culp, Claire Culp, Taylor Daily, Dakota Dean, Jessica DeLatorre, Chelsey Deloney, Mary Dichiara, Brittany Dickerson, Wesley Duckworth, Jordyn Elston, Alex Essman, Jakob Frazier, Jake Freeman, Seth Graffeo, Trey Graham, Chase Graveman, Ryan Graves, Daniel Hardin, Robby Herron, Avery Hoshor, Katie Howell, Savannah Hudson, Bryce Jay, Mace Keenum, Mary Kate Landreth, Kristin Lange, Kurt Lange, Jessi Larson, Cory Lippert, Andrew Mason, Austin Maynard, Michael McKinney, Dylan McMeans, Colton Miller, Grayson Murray, Zach Nichols, Lacie Orris, Brittany Otts, William Kent Pearson, Alex Pounders, Seth Ratliff, Kaitlyn Ray, Jack Ryan, Katie Salter, Shelby Saxon, Hunter Smith, Justice Spidell,

Allie Tittle, Alesha Torbert, Allison Travis, Hannah Glinn Traweek, Natasha Tripp, Tori Turnbow, Tanner Vines, Chris Walton, Jon Zech, Courtney Zumbado.