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Friday March 7th concluded the 74th edition of National Beta Club Week. Club members honored the faculty of CHS on that day by providing an appreciation breakfast for faculty and staff. This organization has been on the CHS campus for a mere two years but advisors Judy Peterson and Terry Bennett are extremely proud of the club’s achievements and potential. Judy is an alumna of the Red Bud High chapter and Terry Bennett was part of Beta at Hamilton County High (Jasper, FL) many years ago. The two approached former principal, Brad Brown, and then Assistant principal, Wanda Westmoreland in the spring of 2006 and both consented to re-chartering this group. They were also given administrative approval at that time by Dr. Taylor and Dr. Davis.
Many of the club’s archive files are incomplete but at some point in the 1940s Calhoun High received a charter. Around 1970, the faculty and administration voted to become an NHS only campus and Beta closed. This year’s senior members will be the first to wear Beta regalia at Calhoun High School in almost forty years.
CHS Beta Club has 53 active members from grades ten through twelve. Students must maintain a 97% or higher attendance rate, 90% or higher core academic average and a pristine discipline record. Among their benefits are recognition at graduation, seating at state and national convention and scholarship and leadership competitions. Haley Cronon will represent CHS and all of Georgia in the pencil art finals at Myrtle Beach in June. Four of her colleagues are applying to attend the Broyhill Furniture National Student Leadership workshop in Charlotte this summer. Michael Butler recently campaigned for the Georgia vice presidency and a dozen of his peers competed in talent, quiz team and academic tests in Atlanta.
Our Beta seniors are a very special crew. Two, Claudia Langford and Ty Frix, have already begun college. Dana Higgins has been notified that she is the recipient of a $1000 national Beta scholarship; she outranked over 900 top national scholars. Dana is an outstanding member of the CHS debate program, president of the Beta Club chapter, a second-year member of the National Honor Society and a four-year member of the Pride of the Northland Marching Yellow Jacket Band.Sally Peterson is our nominee for the Harris Leadership Award. Advisor, Terry Bennett has been selected as one of the final ten nominees for the position of Executive Director/CEO of this international society and interviewed in Spartanburg on March 15.
Future activities planned are: work on a river bank cleanup at Black’s Bluff on March 22 and (tentatively) to hold the second annual Gordon County Senior Citizens Prom in a few weeks along with our friends from Sonoraville High School. Beta plans to run a morning sweet shop at break in the remaining months of this year and we will be in charge of the formal reception that accompanies our annual academic honors night. The national Beta motto is "Let us lead by serving others."
According to Bennett and Peterson, "These incredible kids sacrifice time, money and sweat equity to help our country and world become a better place. From providing Back-Pack Buddy snacks for CPS and CES, to gathering donations for Operation Christmas Child, to collecting toiletries to be sent to the island of Roatan, our members have made quite an impact."
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