Southeastern inducts 42 students into national honor society
Press Release Date: 11-3-2010
Inductees gather prior to the ceremony at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
DURANT, Okla. -- Southeastern Oklahoma State University's Oklahoma Theta chapter of Alpha Chi national honor society recently inducted 42 students into lifetime membership.
Dr. Kenneth Chinn, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Social Sciences Department, delivered the introduction. Participating in the 28th annual induction ceremony were chapter sponsors Chinn, Dr. Brett Elliott, Professor of Mathematics, and Dr. Charla Hall, Professor and Chair of Behavioral Sciences; Dr. L. David Norris, History Professor Emeritus; Ms. Heather Hartline, Vice-President Elect of the Oklahoma Theta Chapter of Alpha Chi; and Southeastern President Larry Minks, who delivered remarks.
Alpha Chi, a national college scholarship honor society, was founded in 1922 and has more than 300,000 members from more than 300 college and university chapters in 45 states and Puerto Rico. The society provides tens of thousands of dollars annually in scholarships and fellowships for members and alumni.
Members of Alpha Chi, identified and elected by the faculties of their schools as ranking in the top 10 percent of juniors and seniors, represent the best undergraduate scholarship in all academic fields at their institutions.
Alpha Chi is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), a group of 67 societies meeting rigorous standards regarding student membership and governance. Alpha Chi is distinctive in its commitment to involving undergraduate members in the full range of operations of the society. Involvement begins at the local chapter level, where students fill all offices, and continues to the regional and national levels, where students are elected to sit on governing boards. In addition, Alpha Chi is one of two major ACHS members based on the scholarly achievement of juniors and seniors from all fields, the other being Phi Kappa Phi.
Following are the Alphi Chi 2010 inductees listed by hometown:
Oklahoma
- Antlers – Colton Ammerer
- Ardmore – Chad Mitchell
- Atoka – Rebecca Benson, Ruth Logue, Benjamin Vah
- Beaver – Kelan Osborn
- Bokchito – Derek Birdsong, Angel Brooks, Jeffry Fuller
- Boswell – Susan Bodine, Chrissy Dill, Christy Roberts
- Broken Bow – Rebekah Stark
- Bromide – Angel Vilchis
- Caddo – Kesha Fryer
- Calera – Rachel Toews, Megan Villines
- Durant – Brandi Bunch, Heather Knowles, Britney Lindsay, Brianna Rustin,
- Idabel – Emily Gaines, Richard Gasway, David Tumbleson
- Kingston – Marshall Brown
- Lone Grove – Kyle Jolliff
- Madill – Steven Dennis
- Marietta – Jacob Hartin
- Mead – Ethan Murray, Jennifer Nazworth
- Tishomingo – Phillip Leonard
- Tulsa – Szu-Yu Lin
- Valliant – Paige Cockerham
Texas
- Alvord – Zachary Hale
- Denison – Derek Rollins
- Georgetown – Travis Kincheloe
- Grapevine – Blayze Perkins
- Sherman – Amy Gardner, Kylee Toney, Darrin Wade
- Trenton – Heather Hartline
Indiana
- Elkhart – Sarah Kirby