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By Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-3890
Posted 5-28-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Noted as the best and brightest among their peers, 41 students in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro were inducted into the prestigious business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma this spring.
UNCG Chancellor Linda P. Brady was also inducted as a member of the international honor society along with eight faculty members.
Students ranking in the top 10 percent of the baccalaureate and top 20 percent of graduate programs at schools accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – are eligible for this invitation. The organization has more than 560,000 members worldwide.
The following students were inducted into the UNCG chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma:
North Carolina inductees:
Buncombe County: Heather Weinkle, Asheville
Chatham County: Steven Wallace, Pittsboro
Cumberland County: Regetta Spearman, Fayetteville
Davidson County: Stephen Huntley and Valerie Garner, Lexington
Durham County: Tracy Ellis, Rougemont
Forsyth County: Anna Carothers and James Kerrigan, Clemmons; James Hutchins, Kernersville
Guilford County: Katherine Cutts, Summerfield; Philip Gomez, High Point; Rebecca Weilandt, Jamestown; Amanda Boothby, Oak Ridge; Holly Brown, Jennifer Causey Johnson, Gracie Lambeth, Juan Rojas, Katrena Dickens, Mitchell Church and Maria C. Duran, all of Greensboro
Mitchell County: Jessica Pitman, Bakersville
Randolph County: Kelly McAlister, Ramseur; Joshua Yates, Trinity
Rockingham County: Meredith Lake, Mayodan
Rowan County: Ashlyne Reid, Granite Quarry
Vance County: Whitney Corn, Kittrell
Out-of-state inductees:
Delaware: Laura Olenderski, Lewes.
Indiana: Rachana Kothare, West Layfayette
Maine: Chelsea Litalien, Biddeford
Pennsylvania: Emily Shetler, Venetia
South Carolina: Andrea Taber, Columbia
Tennessee: Mary Vercoe, Signal Mountain
Vermont: Courtland Perry, Johnson
West Virginia: Valerie Pittenger and Kelly Morgan, Wheeling
International inductees:
Belarus: Alena Kharoshka, Smolevichi
China: Yiyang Wang, Shanghai
Germany: Tanja Barth, Oestringen; Hartwig Glowka, Ludwigshafeng
India: Grishma Kulkarni and Kalpesh Padhye, Mumbai
Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society was founded as a national organization on Feb. 19, 1913. The first national honor society in business, it was a merger of three separate societies established to honor academic achievement in business at the University of Wisconsin,the University of Illinois and the University of California.
The UNCG chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma received the society’s highest prize, the Gold Award, this year for its excellence in programming and operations and superior level of membership acceptance.
The Bryan School is the largest of UNCG’s seven professional schools with 400 graduate students and 2,200 undergraduates. It is accredited by AACSB International and is among the top 10 percent of business schools nationwide that have earned accreditation at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both business and accounting.
For more information, contact the Bryan School at (336) 334-5338 or visit bryanschool.uncg.edu.
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