National Honor Society (NHS)

National Honor Society is built on four pillars: scholarship, service, leadership and character. 

Scholarship is characterized by a commitment to learning. A scholar is happy to spend the necessary time to cultivate his/her mind in the quest for knowledge. This pillar can only be achieved through commitment and perseverence. Scholarship means always doing the best work possible, regardless of impending reward but instead because of high internal motivation to succeed.

The pillar of service is a willingness to work for the benefit of those in need without compensation or recognition of any kind. This is a quality that is essential in NHS members. As a service club, the National Honor Society is highly concerned with giving its all to the school and community at large. 

Service and leadership are connected, because leaders take the initiative to aid others in a wholesome manner throughout their daily activities. Leaders sacrifice their personal interests in order to yield to the needs of others. Leaders need wisdom and self-confidence to affect change in all aspects of their lives. 

The fourth pillar is character. Character is what distinguishes one individual from another. It is the product of constantly striving to make the right choices day after day. Students with good character demonstrate respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, and citizenship in all of their actions. We prepare to join National Honor Society with a willingness to commit to strengthening these pillars in ourselves and in each other.  

In doing this: in being scholars, in being leaders, in serving and in demonstrating our good character, we grow as individuals and we make Prosser a better place than it was before us.

The National Honor Society pledge students make is this:

I, being aware of the honor which is being bestowed upon me by my selection for membership in the National Honor Society, do hereby pledge loyalty to this organization. It shall be my earnest purpose to give unsparingly of my time and energy toward the promotion of all school activities. I will strive to be at all times a model student, and will never knowingly bring reproach upon my school. I pledge myself to uphold the high purpose of this Society for which I have been selected, striving in every way by word and deed to make its ideals the ideals of my school and my life.