Eighty-six students have been inducted into the National Honor Societies for Spanish, French, Chinese, and Italian, with 34 excelling in Spanish, 24 in French, 8 in Chinese, and 20 in Italian.
“We are incredibly proud of these students, not only for their academic excellence in world languages, but for the enthusiasm and commitment they bring to their language clubs and honor societies,” says Supervisor of K-12 World Languages Enrique Pincay. “Their induction reflects a genuine passion for language and culture, and it also speaks to the outstanding work of our world language teachers and the dedicated advisers who guide and inspire them. This achievement is a celebration of both student effort and educator impact across our district.”
At a World Language Induction Ceremony on May 1, Spanish teachers Rose Calimano, Bonnie Underwood, and Brook Stites issued words of congratulations to the following students who were inducted into Pensativa, the Westfield High School chapter of La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica or National Spanish Honor Society. .
Lance Alexander
Hailey Beckerman
Benjamin Bukiet-Beker
Hannah Burton
Mackenzie Byrne
Gabriela Castillo
Ava Contract
Mackenzie Correa
Luke Fitzgerald
Leo Goldman
Noa Goldstein
Gabriel Gonzalez
Annabel Griffith
Jeffrey Heintz
Ava Holzman
Jakob Kofsky
Wei Qi Owen Lin
Ana Lomaka
Miron Manescu
Grace Matus
Sabine Mauras
Vicki Morey
Mia Nuzzo
Kai Patel
Neeva Patel
Joseph Puckett
Christopher Quinn
Kevin Reynders
Alex Rokhsar
Chloe Stadlin
Emily Tessitore
Cecilia Wiggins
Joaquin Wilkes
Elliot Zhu
Twenty-four students were inducted into the Société Honoraire de Français, the National French Honor Society and congratulated by French teacher and club advisor Rachel Janus.
Ethan Bahadur
Juliana Beebe
Sophie Berardi
Keira Carulli
Nathan DeBole
Kamila El-Khoury
Matthew Grillon
Samar Hasan
Violet Hughes
Sonia Jansveld
Isla Karen
Tali Kelner
Zeynep Kurtun
Matthew LaMonica
Faustine Leal
Casey Nurnberg
Catherine Oliveira
Cooper Panaro
Lauren Roszak
Madeline Schlitzer
Katelyn Tacktikos
Claire Wang
Vivien Xu
Kayla Yip
This year marked the 10th anniversary of the National Chinese Honor Society at Westfield High School. Mandarin Chinese instructor / club advisor Kim Ou-Yang announced the following inductees:
William Crozier
Katherine Lai
Benjamin Lyons
Caitlyn Lu
Jocelyn Ng
Mischa Paul
Sinh Strycharz
Brandon Wright
Marisa Milas, who teaches Italian and is club advisor at the high school, congratulated the following students, inducted into the National Italian Society or La Società Onoraria Italica:
Brady Andretta
Katherine Augustyn
Tyler Bergman
Brock Borlenghi
Benjamin Bukiet-Beker
Christopher De Pinto
Joseph DiMattina
Kylie Eglowitz
Giancarlo Giannetta
Jonathan Greeley
Simon Gunzberg
Andie Janota
Samantha Kolesar
Gia Licini
Grace Moore
Alexa Murale
Hayden Pfister
Audrey Smith
Audrey Stack
Hope Walsh
