SOCIEDAD HONORARIA HISPANICA
(SPANISH HONOR SOCIETY)
Albricias Magazine, national quarterly of Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica, has published the poetry, photo, and bio of Lauren Bearden’10, as well as the poetry, drawing, photo, and bio of Theresa Timmes’10. Both students will receive monetary awards and are now eligible for Best of Albricias, end-of-the year awards (TBA).
La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica announces the results of their national contest, Best Videoclip Promoting Spanish. Each of the 1,800 chapters was allowed to mail in its school’s best two clips. Third place in the nation was awarded to the team of Alexandra Van Loon’10 and Kerry Shallcross’10, for which they will receive a monetary award. Their video clip can be seen on the national SHH website, sociedadhonorariahispanica.org
Recent activites:
La casa de Bernarda Alba 2010
GAFAS y GUANTES
At Teatro Repertorio Espanol NYC
There are 1,600 chapters of SHH, a national society for those with a 90 average in Spanish for 3 consecutive semesters, including Spanish 3. Holding lighted candles at a special evening ceremony, students pledge to master Spanish (con la ayuda de Dios) to foster peace and understanding. They receive national SHH certificates and woven badges of the Spanish coat of arms, becoming eligible for many awards: $2000 prizes for essay-writing, expense-paid trips to a Spanish-speaking country, and $35 for writings or art works published in ¡
ALBRICIAS!, the SHH national magazine.
The Spanish pledge: "Sabiendo que el conocimiento de las lenguas fomenta la fraternidad, la amistad, y el acuerdo entre naciones y entre personas, prometo dedicarme al continuo estudio de espanol, con la esperanza de hablarlo fluentemente algun dia, con la ayuda de Dios."
VWA's Andalucia chapter has won Chapter-of-the-Year plaque five times, and Activity-of-the-Year three times. The $700 prize money was donated to Third World children. Many students have been published in Albricias! Two have won trips to Costa Rica and Mexico, and four have won $1000 in SHH essay contests.
Officers: Candidates must give a Spanish campaign speech to their classmates.
elected officers are: Presidenta (TBA) , VP (TBA), Tesorera (TBA), and Secretaria (TBA), Inlace (TBA). Their responsbility is to run the Spanish Club and special activities, such as Total Immersion Day.
Each year the SHH awards a handsome certificate to the highest senior in each Sociedad, as well as certificates for those who have served it most generously.
Spanish Honor Society Officers run about 12 activities during the year. At their first meeting, the card game UNO in Spanish kept it simple for the many new freshmen who joined. Officers reviewed Spanish colors and numbers. Winners received the extra "comida" which was served as everyone entered.
