Newest Members Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
5 March 2018 Newest Members Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa, the nations oldest and most prestigious honors society, inducted 36 recent HWS grads into its Zeta Chapter in May.
Faculty and staff holding membership to the honors society select students based on their intellectual curiosity, personal character, academic breadth and college standing. Approximately one percent of students graduating from American colleges and universities are invited to join each year.
New inductees include:Samantha Bowers 17, August Bruno 17, Matalin Carville 17, Chalwyn Caulker 17, Caroline Conboy 17, Erin Condon 17, Joey Crivelli 17, Ryan Davison 17, Katelyn DeHart 17, Darya Eremina 17, Austen Gillen-Keeney 17, Emma Gordon 17, Stephanie Kenific 17, Mary Kubinski 17, Alexandra LaMonte 17, Karoline Loretan 17, Elizabeth Lownie 17, Clayton Lyons 17, Daniel Marsh 17, Kelly Mauch 17, Maureen Milmoe 17, Maggie Nalbone 17, Hannah Novak 17, Katherine Pinkes 17, Taylor Rugg 17, Chloe Sudduth 17, Kevin Teel 17 and Brian Tosado-Prater 17.
Its always one of the great pleasures of the academic year to celebrate the best and brightest students at the Phi Beta Kappa initiation. The mood at this years ceremony was joyful: students and faculty members enjoyed a lovely meal together and lots of happy laughter around the room, says Associate Professor of Media and Society Leah Shafer.
They join their classmates Sean Bright 17, Margaret Cameron 17, Christopher Demas 17, Zachary Grattan 17, Corinne Kenny 17, Duncan Lilley 17 and Namita Neerukonda 17, who were inducted during their junior year.
Election as a junior is the highest honor the chapter can bestow on a student. The Zeta Chapter welcomed Katherine Campbell 18, an economics major and mathematics minor, who is a member of the William Smith soccer team.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa celebrates academic excellence, intellectual engagement and liberal arts education. Only 10 percent of colleges and universities havechapters of the honors society, which has inducted 17 U.S. Presidents, 40 Supreme Court Justices and more than 130 Nobel Laureates, alongside countless leaders in literature, world affairs, research, the arts and business. The Zeta Chapter is the sixth oldest chapter in New York.