Phi Beta Kappa NewsRelease

STUDENTS INDUCTED INTO PHI BETA KAPPA

GREENSBORO—Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s top academic honor society, has inducted students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro as new members.

An induction ceremony was held on April 16 with remarks on “The Perils of Intellectual Life” by Dr. Walter Beale, dean of UNCG’s College of Arts and Sciences.
The students were elected to Phi Beta Kappa on the basis of their academic achievements in the liberal arts and sciences as undergraduates at UNCG.  Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious academic honorary society in the United States. It was established in 1776 at the College of William and Mary and there are only 262 chapters nationally. UNCG is one of only six institutions in North Carolina to have a chapter. Others are UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University, Duke University, Wake Forest University and Davidson College. The student inductees and their academic majors are as follows:

    Carteret County—Barron Lloyd Thompson of Newport, political science.
    Davidson County—Alex Ray Dennis of Thomasville, computer science; Kathleen Rio Ferrell of Denton, classical studies, and Jennifer Jean Holshouser of Lexington, chemistry.
    Forsyth County--Holly Annette Kayler of Winston-Salem, psychology and sociology; James Harold Gilchriest of Clemmons, English; and Sara L. Ralph of Kernersville, English.
    Gaston County—Katherine Lynn McCarthy of Gastonia, political science.
    Guilford County—Edward Michael Caddy, geography, Sarah Lynne Gibson, anthropology and English, Nathan Wayne Jameson, communication studies and psychology, Justin David Lane, physics, and Ivana Nikolic, biology, all of Greensboro.
    Iredell County—Jenny Denise Leamon of Statesville, mathematical sciences.
    Martin County—Anna Winslow Parker of Oak City, psychology and Spanish.
    Pasquotank County—Catherine Elizabeth Thompson of Elizabeth City, chemistry.
    Randolph County--Kelly Marie Chandler, English, and David Paul Yelverton, biology, both of Asheboro.
    Rockingham County—James Morgan Myers of Stoneville, English.
    Wake County—Megan Elizabeth Morrissey of Cary, English.
    Out-of-state—Aimee Jo Pokwatka of St. Clairsville, Ohio, anthropology.

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