Athens Academy Students Tapped for National Honor Society

By Kelley Cuneo

On February 8, 43 students were inducted into the National Honor Society based on their qualities of scholarship, leadership, character, and service.  The students were inducted following the 34^th annual Schacht Lecture, which was delivered by Ross Mason, founder of the Healthcare Institute for Neuro-Recovery & Innovation (HINRI) and HealthTrain Ventures.   

An Athens Academy alumnus originally from Madison, Georgia, Mason became pas­sionate about healthcare after volunteering at an AIDS hospital in Zambia and after a bicycle accident left him paralyzed from the collarbones down.  In addition to his work with HINRI and HealthTrain, Mason is also a fellow of the Center for Health Transformation.

Congratulations to the students who were inducted into NHS: Kyle Adams, Prakash Agrawal, Walker Buchner, Logan Burdette, Natalie Busener, Katie Camp, Alois Cerbu, Jesse Conley, Miranda Dahl, Ian Dawkins, Claudia Evaristo, Brent Gelfand, Mykal Gerald, Connor Guess, Shannon Hodgson, Ben Hope, James Hylton, Anna Candler Kimsey, Abby Knight, Mark Leonard, Myles LoParco, Zander Mason, Kyle Mueller, Madeleine Mullen, Anamaria Otalora-Garcia, Darshan G. Parikh, Rooshi Patel, Abbey Pylant, Natalie Ray, Nick Rorabaugh, Haley Ruhl, Max Ruston, Michael Santamaria, Rebecca Schofield, Carly Settles, Jiwhan Sung, Edward Tie, Nilu Vyas, Holly Williams, Oliver Woodruff, Alex Young, Halie Zastre, and Angel Zha.