SPS Latin Society

Seventh and eighth grade students from St. Peter School in Merchantville were recently inducted to the National Junior Classical League Latin Honor Society. The society was established to encourage an appreciation of the language, literature and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. The St. Peter School Chapter is one of the few grammar school chapters in the United States.  The National Junior Classical League is an organization of middle school and high school students sponsored by the American Classical League. It is composed of local and state chapters and is the largest Classical organization in the world today. Its purpose is to encourage an interest in and an appreciation of the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and to impart an understanding of the debt owed of our own culture to that of Classical antiquity.