17th Annual 8th Grade Honor Roll Program
May 16, 2007

The Casas Adobes Rotary Club in 1991 initiated an 8^th Grade Honor Roll program to single out area eighth grade students selected by their respective schools. The numbers have grown from 11 students in 3 schools the first year to 158 honorees in 15 schools in 2007. School and community response has been excellent.

Each fall Rotarians present the program to eighth grade faculty and students. Each school selects its own honorees based upon the criteria of leadership, character, scholarship, and neatness of appearance.

Early in May the Rotary Club hosts a breakfast where the students and faculty representatives are guests of the club. Parents are invited to attend. A prominent local individual is guest speaker, each school receives a plaque engraved with honorees' names and all selected students receive certificates.

The purpose of the program is to emphasize and recognize those qualities of leadership and character which will serve the students throughout life. Additionally, the 8th Grade Honor Roll event is an opportunity to present the principles of Rotary to the community.