Photo by Virgil Shipley

Forty-two Mount Vernon High School junior and senior students were inducted into the Laura B. Koons Chapter of the Mount Vernon Chapter of the National Honor Society in ceremony Friday morning. Front row from left are, Kate Reynolds, Nora Rice, Leila Samhat, Jenny Scott, Jordan Shemshock, Courtney Strait, Lindsey Studebaker, Riley Swanson, Alexis Szenas, William Teater, Keli Thompson, Samantha Williams, David Wood and Levi Zolman. Middle row from left, Olivia Glass, Daniel Hofman, Melissa Kasler, Abby Lyons, Katie Martin, Cole McDonough, Steven Meeker Jr. Dianna Mills, Bethany Myers, Matthew Omahan, Kaitlin Pido and Brianne Presley. Top row from left, Hanna Baggs, Abby Beale, Erin Bell, Haley Adkins, Chelsea Boutin, Codee Boyce, Lauren Butterfield, Josh Campbell, Andrew Clarkson, Johnson Cochran, Amber Cox, Donovan Crippen and Dan Eddy. Kathryn Bender was absent.