By Chidimma C. Okeke
The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola has celebrated its high flyer graduating students in the Honour Society club for academic excellence and fostering good leadership that has impacted the university community.
The varsity, at the Honour Society annual awards banquet on Thursday, said the celebration is on academic excellence, good character, leadership and vision that defines true excellence.
The Honour Society, which represents the commitments to give back to the society, houses A- list students who must attain a CGPA of 3.5 and above, on a four-point scale, and has shown a worthy character and trait of true leadership to remain a member.
At the award, the graduating Honour Society students were extolled for demonstrating courage for what is right even when it’s not easy and giving back to the society through community development.
The Vice Chancellor of AUN, DeWayne Frazier said the dinner and award banquet for the Honour Society was to celebrate the hard work and dedication of their students.
According to him, the university, as a developmental varsity, stands for commitment to academic and ethical excellence, which are what the students had demonstrated.
The Honour Society Club is reputed for being the most exclusive club in all campuses.
The Vice Chancelor said the members had been committed in helping other students that were academically challenged by organising tutorials, providing electricity and making sacrifices in providing materials to the less privileged in the community.
“You are the embodiment of what we stand for. You are awesome,” Frazier said.
He however, said with this generation of the young people, Nigeria will rise again.
While saying he will gladly put up the graduating students against any other students from other higher institutions because of their outstanding performances, he commended their parents for making the sacrifices to bring them to AUN and support them through the course of their studies.
In her remarks, the outgoing president of the Society, Sharon Pedro-Dimas said the Honour Society was a place where leadership becomes less about titles “but more about service”, adding that It’s a place where true impact is not always loud.
“It’s a community that houses not just accomplished people but intentional people who understand that leadership success is simply performance,” she said.
“We arrived here as different versions of ourselves and now we’re leaving, carrying a piece of each other. To every graduating student, thank you for every sacrifice you made that nobody saw and for every time you chose responsibility over convenience.”
Pedro-Dimas urged the members to keep promoting the culture of excellence, the spirit of service and the humanity of the space and not to “let the love to achieve to erode them of the lessons they have received from AUN,” but rather to continue to promote a community where people are seen, challenged, supported and transformed.
Meanwhile the graduates were presented with awards and certificates for their dedication, leadership and attitude to service.
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