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Carlisle high school honor society runs pen‑pal program with Hamilton Elementary
Summary
High school National English Honor Society students exchanged monthly letters with Hamilton Elementary graders, culminating in a classroom visit and book gifts funded by NEHS and the Bison Foundation.
The Carlisle Area School District’s National English Honor Society ran a pen‑pal program this year linking high school students with graders at Hamilton Elementary, and the initiative ended with a classroom visit and books for the elementary students.
The program connected roughly 50 newly inducted honor‑society students with Hamilton graders for monthly correspondence and a short in‑school visit. Sarah Claybill, an English teacher and the adviser for the National English Honor Society, told the board the project was designed to “focus on literacy, focus on community, and also just bring our honor society together.”
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