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Honors Society Inductees Announced
Release Date: 10 NOV 2003
DE QUEEN – Robbie McKelvy, a member of Cossatot Community College’s Mathematics faculty and advisor to the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, announced the joint induction of this spring’s Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Beta Gamma, and National Vocational Technical Honor Society (NVTHS) students, which will be held Thursday, November 13th at 7PM in Rooms B-11 and 12 on the De Queen campus. Graduating members will also be recognized at the College’s Commencement Exercises, to be held beginning at 2PM, Saturday, December 13th at Nashville Elementary School.
The Fall, 2003 inductees are:
De Queen: Ivan Ramirez, Elvia Rosas, Brenda Cliff, Lee Tyler, Mary Davis, Tami Nickerson
Dierks: Denise Barton
Foreman: Tontia Gregory
Hope: Annette Gentry
Horatio: Charles Ramasco, Joseph Hodges
Mena: Terry Irons
Nashville: Cortney Keeton, Jennifer Scarborough
Waldron: Melissa Gasaway
Wickes: Melinda Wise
Winthrop: Melinda Tallan, Renae Prinsen, Stephanie Carver
Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society for two-year colleges, with more than 200 chapters across the United States. The four areas in which students are evaluated for membership are scholarship, leadership, fellowship, and service. Students must also have at least a 3.5 grade point average, and at least 12 hours of college level credit.
McKelvy said of the new inductees, “We are very proud of these students. Many of them are working full-time jobs and families, and still manage to make the scholastic effort that is required for admission into these honor societies.”
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification
and Associate’s degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De
Queen, at extension sites at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has
an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, and is accredited by the North
Central Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Higher Learning.
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