NHS Induction Ceremony 2021

West Essex Chapter
National Honor Society

Induction Ceremony

West Essex Regional High School
May 6, 2021

Character, Scholarship, Leadership, Service

Board of Education
Ms. Maryadele Wojtowicz, President
Mr. Anthony Rubinich, Vice President

Ms. Cynthia Egan
Ms. Anne Fahey
Ms. Jill Marcus
Mr. Frank Perrotti
Ms. Deborah Sacco-Calderone
Ms. Jann Skelton
Mr. Ray Stampone

Administrative Team
Mr. Damion Macioci, Superintendent of Schools

Mr. Caesar Diliberto, Principal
Ms. Juliann Hoebee, Assistant Principal
Ms. Kimberley Westervelt, Assistant Principal
Mr. Ryan Gupta, Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Ms. Lisa Hulse, Supervisor of Guidance & Student Services
Ms. Tania Symmons, Director of Special Services
Mr. Jason Lerner, Supervisor of Science
Ms. Stacy Casais, Supervisor of English, Reading & Library
Mr. Gregory Aschoff, Supervisor of Mathematics & Business
Ms. Laura Drago, Supervisor of Social Studies & World Languages
Ms. Lisa Swanick, Supervisor of Fine, Performing & Practical Arts
Mr. Anthony Minnella, Director of Athletics, Health & Physical Education

Program

West Essex Jazz Quintet

Processional: Gabriel Ruszala - Trombone
Ethan Miskulin - Drums
Madison Rombough - Guitar/Vocals
Lucas Sabol - Piano
Hudson King - Bass

Pledge of
Alexandra Lowenthal, Chapter Officer

Allegiance:

Welcome: Ms. Colabelli, Chapter Adviser

Address to the
Mr. Diliberto, WEHS Principal

Inductees:

Significance of
Alessia Contuzzi, President

Membership:

Character: Jimmy Alamia, Vice President
Statements of Scholarship: Hannah Ng, Secretary
Chapter Principles: Leadership: Veronica Mierzwa, Treasurer

Service: Madison Trewhella & Jeremy Caplan, Fundraising

Induction: Chapter Officers

Chapter Pledge: Alessia Contuzzi, President

Presentation of
Jimmy Alamia, Vice President

Educator Honoree:

Presentation of
Chapter Officers

NHS Scholarships:

Closing Remarks: Ms. Colabelli, Chapter Adviser

The West Essex Chapter
of the

National Honor Society

Philosophy Statement

Those who have been given much, both in natural ability and opportunity, have a
responsibility to contribute their talents in order to benefit and improve their school and
their community. Since the members of the National Honor Society are the most gifted and
talented students academically, they have an obligation to assist their peers and act as role
models for the school community.

The objectives of the West Essex Chapter of the National Honor Society are:
To make members and their peers aware of their social responsibilities
To provide assistance to students who are experiencing academic challenges
To courageously stand for strong character and to make good social decisions
To provide assistance to anyone who demonstrates need, both in the school
community and in society

Pledge

I am aware of the honor which has been given to me
by my selection for membership in the National Honor Society,
I pledge myself to be true to the principles it stands for.
It shall be my earnest purpose to give generously of my time
and energy to the service of my school and my community.
I pledge to maintain my high scholastic standing,
to hold as fundamental and worthy an untarnished character,
and to endeavor intelligently and courageously to be a leader.
I will strive by word and deed to make the ideals of the National
Honor Society the ideals of my school and of my life.

West Essex Chapter
National Honor Society

Junior Inductees
2021-2022

Sara Amadeo Ethan Ippolito Victoria Roccasanta
Samantha Axelrod Nidhi Jadhav Isabella Rodrigues
Angela Jomson Dominic Romano
Abby Azzinnari Maria Kardash
Joseph Bejjani Catherine Khitiri Macey Rudnick
Reese Biggerstaff Brandon Kinsella Jordan Ruffer
Lauren Bohrer Sayuri Kirikihira Matthew Russo
Kathryn Klukowicz Mia Saccone
Eli Boshak Sean Knodel Antonia Salluce
Ava Buccino Rob Lasher Mike Sangillo
Philip Buccino Zachary Lieberman
Jason Calick Caitlin Lutz Lillian Satz
Michael Campolattaro Kelly Lynch Jack Sceppaguercio
Nicole Candela Julian Machin Samara Schiffman
Rosario Catanzarite Hannah Marcotrigiano
Isabella Cerrigone Andrew Marino Nicola Sepe
Katherine Chodorcoff Danny Martire Kyla Shamosh
Connor Coughlin Nicole Massaro
Noah Decker Riley Maurer Emily Shaw
Isabella DeRose Caroline McElhannon Katherine Shaw
Hannah DeVita Neena Mehta
Jonathan Ding Joseph Mihalik Andrew Shih
Frankie Dolese Jack Minish Alexandra Shizas
Jenna Ebbinghousen Robert Minish Anjulie Shrestha
Isabelle Farina Brian Mintz
Jack Flusser Valerie Naguib Molly Simon
Alissa Gallion Alexandra Sisco
Rocco Garcia Tali Offir Isabella Slaaen
Daniel Gold Androulla Papatherapontos Shaila Spritzer
Remi Goldstein
Benjamin Grunther Victoria Perez Emily Styskal
Julia Guerriero Spiridon Pontidis Scott Tannler
Paul Gustafson Lauren Tedesco
Emily Hahn Sam Prince Marc Tiegel
Aidan Harn-Flood Emily Proscia Julianna Tornatore
Carly Iacullo Angelina Velardi
James Ignacio Diya Rao Alyssa White
Curran Rastogi Sofia Wissert
Madison Robertiello
Emily Zarr
Joseph Zhai
Ethan Zinn

Words to Live By

Sara Amadeo
"Change never happens spontaneously" -Goreng, "The Platform"

Samantha Axelrod
"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." -Will Rogers

Abby Azzinnari
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." -Calvin Coolidge

Joseph Bejjani
"There is no top. There are always further heights to reach." -Jascha Heifetz

Reese Biggerstaff
"You didn't come this far to only come this far." -Unknown

Lauren Bohrer
"A ship is always safe at shore, but that is not what it's built for" -Albert Einstein

Eli Boshak
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi

Ava Buccino
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”-William James

Philip Buccino
"It's never too late to be what you might've been.” -George Eliot

Jason Calick
"Life is like a game of poker, you play with the cards you are dealt." -Anonymous

Michael Campolattaro
"I can do this all day" -Captain America

Nicole Candela
"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." -Howard Zinn
Rosario Catanzarite
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson

Isabella Cerrigone
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work." -Colin Powell

Katherine Chodorcoff
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
-Thomas A. Edison

Connor Coughlin
"The future depends on what you do today" -Mahatma Gandhi

Noah Decker
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” -Walt Disney.

Isabella DeRose
"Nothing worth having comes easy" -Unknown

Hannah DeVita
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” -Abigail Adams

Jonathan Ding
“Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

Frankie Dolese
“In a world of Cheerios be a Froot Loop” -Unknown

Jenna Ebbinghousen
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading
us down new paths.” -Walt Disney

Isabelle Farina
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is
the goal of true education." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Jack Flusser
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alissa Gallion
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." -Jane Goodall

Rocco Garcia
"Some may have more talent, but there is no excuse for anyone working harder than you" -John Tavares

Daniel Gold
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." -Michael Jordan

Remi Goldstein
“The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”
-Oprah Winfrey

Benjamin Grunther
"Learning's a gift, even when pain is your teacher" -Michael Jordan

Julia Guerriero
"Believe you can and you're halfway there"-Theodore Roosevelt

Paul Gustafson
"And I don't care if you losing, still fight back." -Pop Smoke

Emily Hahn
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." -Abraham Lincoln

Aidan Harn-Flood
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" -Nelson Mandela

Carly Iacullo
"Be the moon, and inspire people even when you're far from full" -K. Tolnoe

James Ignacio
"We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique."
-John Legend

Ethan Ippolito
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nidhi Jadhav
"Do what is right, not what is easy" -Roy T. Bennett

Angela Jomson
"We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but
I still don't believe in my fate." -RM

Maria Kardash
“Nothing great is ever achieved without enduring much.” -St. Catherine of Siena

Catherine Khitiri
"Character may show the most in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."-Phillips Brooks

Brandon Kinsella
"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."
-Brigham Young

Sayuri Kirikihira
"Always give people more than what they expect to get." -Nelson Boswell

Kathryn Klukowicz
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

Sean Knodel
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
-Ronald Reagan

Rob Lasher
"Make life your masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do." -Brian Tracy

Zachary Lieberman
"Rest at the end, Not in the middle" -Kobe Bryant

Caitlin Lutz
"What you do has far greater impact than what you say" -Stephen Covey

Kelly Lynch
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure" -Unknown

Julian Machin
“There may be some people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you
do” -Derek Jeter

Hannah Marcotrigiano
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated" -Maya Angelou

Andrew Marino
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney

Danny Martire
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."
-Jim Rohn

Nicole Massaro
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." -Arthur Ashe

Riley Maurer
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Caroline McElhannon
"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing" -Walt Disney

Neena Mehta
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it" -Maya Angelou

Joseph Mihalik
"The best way to predict the future is to create it" -Abraham Lincoln

Jack Minish
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" -Winston Churchill

Robert Minish
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream,
a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -Muhammad Ali

Brian Mintz
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." -Douglas Adams

Valerie Naguib
"Our greatest weakness lies within giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to just try one more time"
-Thomas Edison

Tali Offir
"Work hard in silence; let success make the noise." -Frank Ocean

Androulla Papatherapontos
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit" -Aristotle

Victoria Perez
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" -Mohandas Gandhi

Spiridon Pontidis
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on
your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go…” -Dr. Suess

Sam Prince
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Buller

Emily Proscia
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -Joshua J. Marine

Diya Rao
"The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win." -Kobe Bryant

Curran Rastogi
"If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve to be successful" -Charles Barkley

Madison Robertiello
"The only person you should strive to be better than, is the person you were yesterday" -Matty Mullins

Victoria Roccasanta
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."- Mahatma Gandhi

Isabella Rodrigues
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go
through it or work around it."- Michael Jordan

Dominic Romano
"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." -C.S. Lewis

Macey Rudnick
"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man" -Iain Duncan Smith

Jordan Ruffer
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot

Matthew Russo
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

Mia Saccone
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

Antonia Salluce
"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise" -Frank Ocean

Mike Sangillo
"The key to success is to keep moving forward" -Unknown

Lillian Satz
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything" -Unknown

Jack Sceppaguercio
“If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t
appreciate the moment until it’s passed.” -Kanye West

Samara Schiffman
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the
beginning.” -Vincent van Gogh

Nicola Sepe
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" -Mahatma Ghandi

Kyla Shamosh
"Don't avoid situations that might end in joy because they are beginning with fear." -Unknown

Emily Shaw
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts" -Winston Churchill

Katherine Shaw
"Don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them." -Madam C.J. Walker

Andrew Shih
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you
really believe 100 percent.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger

Alexandra Shizas
"Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise." -Anonymous

Anjulie Shrestha
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -Mahatma Gandhi

Molly Simon
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Alexandra Sisco
"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing" -Barry Finlay

Isabella Slaaen
"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create." -Buddha

Shaila Spritzer
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Anonymous

Emily Styskal
"The pain that you've been feeling, can't compare to the joy that's coming" -Romans 8:18

Scott Tannler
"I don't care about what nobody says or how nobody feels. I'm happy, I'm living my life, and that's what it is."
-Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph

Lauren Tedesco
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein

Marc Tiegel
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." -Pablo Picasso

Julianna Tornatore
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston Churchill

Angelina Velardi
"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you" -Fred Devito

Alyssa White
"Always stay humble and kind" -Tim McGraw

Sofia Wissert
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” -Henry David Thoreau

Emily Zarr
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and
eventually the confidence will follow.” -Carrie Fisher

Joseph Zhai
"The key to success is failure"-Michael Jordan

Ethan Zinn
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service of others " -Mahatma Ghandi

Thank you

Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Damion Macioci,
Members of the West Essex Board of Education,
Mr. Caesar Diliberto, West Essex High School Principal,

and the entire administration team.

National Honor Society Faculty Council
for their dedicated time in the selection process.
This would not have been possible without you.

All of the “behind the scenes” members of the
West Essex Community.

Family and Friends for your support and
attendance this evening.