CARIBOU, Maine — The Caribou Chapter of the National Honor Society was founded in 1927 under the sponsorship of Caribou High School Principal, Mr. Partridge with the awarding of the Charter on April 13.
Our NHS chapter is the oldest continually operating organization at Caribou High School. Miss Hazel Pratt served as our chapter’s first adviser from 1927 to 1933. The first class to be inducted consisted of Albert Todd, Philip Kierstead, Sterling Nelson, Gustave Johnson, Chester Ringdahl, Sheldon Boone and Vaughn Pearson.
Since its inception in 1927 the faculty of Caribou High School has bestowed their honor on close to two thousand students as members of the National Honor Society. Seven members of the faculty of Caribou High School have shouldered the responsibility as chapter advisers during these past eighty eight years including: Miss Hazel Pratt, Miss Blanch Farrington, Miss Elizabeth Hitchings, Mr. Frank Angotti, Mrs. Iris Burleigh, Mrs. Carol McElwee and the current adviser, Mr. Kenneth W. Atcheson II.
The members of this society have served our community as teachers, principals, ministers, priests, rabbis, farmers, plumbers, electricians, college professors, members of the armed forces, including a four star admiral of the Navy, a NASA astronaut, doctors, nurses, law enforcement officers, lawyers, business owners, city council members, a president of the University of Maine, Maine State Legislature Representative and Senators, school superintendents including Ms. Susan White, Maine State District, Superior and Supreme Court justices, one of our past chapter presidents currently serves as the Junior United States Senator from Maine and most importantly hundreds, of hardworking citizens of Caribou, Woodland, New Sweden, Stockholm, Westmanland and Connor.
Let us pay tribute to our past by striving to improve the future for all who follow us through the doors of Caribou High School and by continuing to live up to the honor that the faculty has bestowed upon each member of the National Honor Society.
The NHS sponsors or participates in the following events: Student of the Month Program, Muscular Dystrophy Drive, Holiday Food Drive for the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen, Operation Stop Hunger Now, the Aspirations Project, Academic Night for Caribou High School, Freshmen Orientation and Parent Teacher Conferences, and the annual Special Olympic Field Day.
