Hannah Griffith recognized as BW Board Student-Citizen of the Month

Goooooood Morn­ing Big Walnut!

This is how stu­dents are greeted on the morn­ing announce­ments at Big Wal­nut High School. Most stu­dents know that this cheer­ful and kind greet­ing every morn­ing is from Miss Han­nah Grif­fith. Stu­dents who do not know that the voice is Hannah’s are still uplifted.

Han­nah Grif­fith, a junior at Big Wal­nut High School, was rec­og­nized as the Big Wal­nut Board of Education’s Student-Citizen of the Month at Monday’s board meet­ing. She is the daugh­ter of Lori and Scott Grif­fith. She is also the “lit­tle sis­ter” to Jason Grif­fith, a BWHS grad­u­ate from the class of 2011, and the older sis­ter of Haley Grif­fith at Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School. And for every­one who has been around the high school for a length of time, Han­nah is also the grand­daugh­ter of Ray and Karen Dusenbury.

Han­nah is one of two stu­dents who does the daily announce­ments. She is cur­rently involved in indoor track and the drama pro­gram. Han­nah is also involved in the writ­ing club. In fact, writ­ing and his­tory are two of her pas­sions. She is even involved in the Civil War re-enactments at Myers Inn in Sunbury.

Han­nah is a pos­i­tive influ­ence on all those around her, and she really strives to share her pos­i­tive views. In class Han­nah is always he first to vol­un­teer answers and make peo­ple laugh — includ­ing her Eng­lish teacher Mike Ruark who says that she is noth­ing short of “joy­ous to have in class”. Mrs. Melissa Hay, Hannah’s Alge­bra II teacher shares that “Han­nah is a hard work­ing, car­ing young lady. She puts a lot of effort into her work and makes sure to ask ques­tions when she doesn’t under­stand. She par­tic­i­pates in class, and cares about her class­mates and peers around her. Han­nah is also very involved both in the class­room and out­side the class (drama, men­tor­ing at the ele­men­taries and more).”

In addi­tion to these obser­va­tions Han­nah was the “Ghost of Christ­mas yet to come” in the recent BWHS Drama pro­duc­tion of The Christ­mas Carol. This was Hannah’s first act­ing role in the drama club, though she has been involved in the club for the last three years. Any­one who saw the play will cer­tainly remem­ber her laugh. Her hearty laugh­ter is one of the many things that stole the show!

Han­nah has also worked along­side her school coun­selor, Mrs. Molly For­tune, to cre­ate the “It’s Your Voice” cam­paign. This group, which Han­nah pre­sented to the prin­ci­pal and had approved, is designed to pro­vide an out­let to stu­dents for peer medi­a­tion. Han­nah ini­ti­ated, orga­nized and trained 20 of her peers to ensure that they could make the school their own.

In short, per­haps Social Stud­ies teacher Jim Sturte­vant said it best when he describe Han­nah as Big Walnut’s true Renais­sance Woman!

Con­grat­u­la­tions Han­nah, we are proud to have you rep­re­sent us.

Posted by Gary Henery on Dec 12 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.