American Go Honor Society

President, Kris Taylor

Kris Taylor was elected as president of the AGHS in July of 2009 and is working to bring tournaments, fundraisers, and more members to the AGHS. He has been President of the Jasper High Go Club (founded by him, president '07-'09) and the president of the newly founded Plano Senior High Go Club. He ran the 2008 North Texas Go Tournament and has participated in the School Team Tournament for 2 years and running. He enjoys tae kwon do, reading, and hanging out with friends. 

Vice President, Tim McCaffery

Tim is the Vice President of the American Go Honor Society. He helped official games for the School Team Tournament and even created the first AGHS website before joining being elected into office.  With no formal go education, Tim is now an 8 or 9 kyu player, depending on the day. Besides his tasks as Vice President, he also helps maintain the AGHS website, pleasegetmeanattorney.com, and pleasegetmealawyer.com.  In his spare time, Tim can be found playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live or driving his Buick around the town.

Secretary, Albert Hwang

Albert Hwang is a senior at Douglas County High School in Colorado. He is a supervisor with the Highlands Ranch Go Club and has competed in multiple Go tournaments with both the American Go Honor Society and in Colorado. He is an active participant with his other school activities like Future Business Leaders of America, International Baccalaureate Leadership Council, Science Bowl, and National Honor Society. He also likes working in his community as he is an active volunteer at the local hospital and has founded an organization that works with a local church to help bring medical supplies to a village in Nicaragua. In the future, he will attend college and become an engineer in the medical field.

Treasurer , Diana Yang

Diana has been an active player of Go for three and a half years, though her interest was sparked even before then. She hopes to help spread the word about Go to youths, so that the game can take root in becoming a large-scale hobby in America. Diana loves to watch random anime shows, play video and computer games, and read books. She dislikes giant piles of homework brought on by school, but will likely never be able to shrink the piles. She knows herself to be crazy, taking 4 AP classes in her senior year. She actually enjoys some of these AP classes, and will (unfortunately) probably never forget random history facts, calculus problems, and chemistry/biology concepts. In her free time she can be found playing go or co-authoring a book. If you cannot find her doing one of these things, she is most likely hidden under a mountain of homework and textbooks.

Speaker of the House, Daniel Wentworth

Daniel Wentworth is a martial artist, a bass player, and a lover of history. He is a cook at "Over the Falls Delhi" and will soon head to college. He joined the AGHS in March after he created his own school club to participate in the school team tournament. During the tournament he quickly befriended Christopher Vu and Matthew Mallory, which eventually led to his interest in taking office. In office as speaker of the house he has been pressing for the AGHS to become non-profit; he is also working on AGHS supported clubs.

Parliamentarian, Sean He

Sean has worked as a teacher, volunteer, and leader. Directing the Legislative Branch, he is currently working on creating an AGHS Senate. 

In the past years, Sean has always strived to work as a team player; he has spent a considerable amount of time teaching and helping others; he always takes initiatives and supports activities, which promote community service and concern for others.     

During the spring semester of the year 2007, Sean founded the Montville Township High School Go Club and became its first president. He accomplished this by co-authoring a constitution, soliciting the school’s administration for its approval, recruiting the type of highly talented students that would make the club a success, and spearheading fundraising campaigns.

Sean He attends Montville Township High School, Class of ’10.  

Recorder, Nicolas Wentworth

Nicolas Wentworth is an honors student at Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle school. He is involved in battle of the books, loves sports, and adores strategy games. At age 11 he is the youngest member to take a leadership position in the AGHS.  He and his brother are the second pair of siblings to be in office together.