Madeline Fong

Mary Workineh (12) draws a picture of a cup of coffee. The winner of the pictionary game won chocolates. “There’s fun activities that let French be in my everyday life and [be] incorporated into my natural routine,” first-year member Mary Workineh (12) said. “I’ve been taking French for half my life, so I love the language and I love the culture.”

French Honor Society held their first meeting with newly inducted members Nov. 12. Members practiced their French speaking skills as they played Pictionary using only French vocabulary.

After inducting 15 new members for the 2025-26 school year Nov. 10, French Honor Society continues to grow. The club keeps meetings engaging by blending new activities with returning favorites each year.

“Every year, our activities get better and better,” French teacher and French Honor Society sponsor Bridget Milford said. “We have lots of input from our officers. Our officers this year have been phenomenal in helping create great lessons and activities. We did the pumpkin painting. We’ve done the ice cream social. We love collaborating with the other honor societies. So this year has been great.”

With their goal of including cultural traditions of other francophone countries, French Honor Society plans to hold their first henna meeting. 

“We are planning a henna meeting where we will invite some students that have experience with henna,” Milford said. “Henna is a very popular tradition in Northern Africa, where there’s a lot of French speaking countries, [such as] Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. I’m looking forward to a meeting with that, because it is the first time where we’re inviting somebody to help us with henna.”

In addition to the henna meeting, French Honor Society plans to bring back past favorites. The club regularly partners with other language honor societies and aims to make events accessible to all students.

“We’ll have the Parade of Nations, and in December, we have the Bûche de Noël contest, where we make out Bûche de Noël cakes out of Twinkies,” Milford said. “And then in the spring, we’ll have the annual soccer tournament with the French, German, Spanish and Latin honor societies.”