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St. Margaret’s students signed the Honor Book during morning chapel on September 16th. One of the school’s longest standing traditions, the Honor Book signing is a time for all members of the community to reflect upon what it means to live in a community with an Honor Code and how the code affects everyday interactions.
Dean of School Life, Keith Krusz, one of two faculty representatives who sits on the Honor Council, shared his own reflections on the Honor Code prior to the signing. “The Honor Code demands that you be treated as an honorable person...for example, when you are asked a question, the assumption is you will answer truthfully,” he told the students. Mr. Krusz urged all to remember this trust when tempted to be anything but completely truthful. “The belief that you will answer truthfully is what usually stops a teacher from asking you 20 follow up questions when you offer an explanation that you were late to class because your advisor asked you a question and she didn’t have time to write you a note” he explained.
What Mr. Krusz was describing was one of the things that makes the St. Margaret’s community so special. We trust each other and we value integrity. Mr. Krusz added that “the Honor Code is important not so much because it is in this Handbook but because it is in here your heart.” In conclusion, he asked each student to “take the time as you sit here to reflect on what you are doing. You are making a pledge to yourself, and to each other, as hundreds of SMS girls have done before you, a pledge that I hope you carry with you and respect for the rest of your time at St. Margaret’s.”
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Chief Sacristan Laurie Wilbur ‘10 and
sophomore Nikki Dansby sign the Honor Book
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