Hubbard, Satterwhite as New NHS Sponsors
Rachel Martin
Special to The Wire
Physics and math teachers Garrett Hubbard and Allison Satterwhite will be bringing new ideas to the National Honor Society (NHS) next year as the society’s new sponsors.
Hubbard and Satterwhite chose to sponsor the organization at the request of Christine Spaulding, one of the current sponsors. They also are excited to work with the NHS students as a way of promoting the values that NHS stands for and improving the community. “…I think NHS is a great organization…I look forward to working with them,” said Hubbard. “Second, I am looking forward to sending threatening letters to kids who don’t complete their service hours.”
Both of the new sponsors are hoping to expand the National Honor Society’s projects for next year, such as the tutoring program that it ran in the past. “Next year we will definitely continue to focus on the tutoring program, and ensuring that the service is advertised and available to all WPHS students in need of extra help,” said Satterwhite. Hubbard feels that instituting the tutoring program would be appropriate because of the NHS’s obligation as an honor society to help the school. They also hope to get long term projects started that would involve community service and improving the school in other ways.
As for their role in running the organization, Hubbard and Satterwhite hope that their student officers will take leadership initiative. “NHS officers run for election aware of the responsibility they will be taking on, and thus I envision that student leadership will involve a great deal of work in the management and organization of our chapter,” said Satterwhite concerning student officer roles. “That being said,” said Ms. Satterwhite, “both Mr. Hubbard and myself have mad skills in telling kids what to do, so I am fully prepared to make the officers our little minions ready to lead NHS under our direction.” Hubbard believes that the officers should be learning skills such as organizing meetings, keeping records and planning events as part of being a leader in an honor society, but both teachers plan on overseeing and guiding students through their tasks in the society. “Basically if we can make the officers younger versions of us (Hubbard and Satterwhite) that would be awesome,” said Hubbard about teaching leaderships skills to the students. “We are two of the best people at West Potomac.”
The society’s Vice President for next year, Maggie Berrigan, has expressed her excitement to have two of her past teachers sponsoring the club. “I think they’ll be really good for the program; bring in some new ideas.” She also related her hope to get the club more involved, because she feels it was not able to do much this year.
