July 7, 2004
ECU students inducted into honor society
ADA — Forty-nine East Central University students have been inducted into ECU’s chapter of Alpha Chi, a national honor society. The students selected an influential faculty member to pin them during the candlelit ceremony.
To be eligible for Alpha Chi, students must have been in the top 10 percent of the junior or senior class, with a minimum grade point average of 3.5. Alpha Chi promotes and recognizes superior scholarship and those elements of character that make scholarship effective for service.
The society, founded in 1922, has about 300 chapters in 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and represents the highest academic honor on any member campus.
New members from Ada are:
Amity S. Apsey, Brandy Nicole Carter, Starsha Driver, Myra Fullingim, Christa Lynn Hefley, Bradley Heimer, Edy Hendrix, K. Brandon Hulsey, Sherithann McDonald, Kamberly Petete, Kent Qualls, Emily Rambo, Kimberly Rhodes, Marjorie E. Russell, Margaret I. Scifres, Steve Tilley and Matthew H. Wiley.
Area students include:
Jessica Tillery, Stonewall; Melissa K. Carter, Allen; Sheila A. Cobb, Stratford; Tarran Chambers, Sarah B. Milledge and Carla Kay McCarrell, Pauls Valley; Andrea L. Smith and Jason Taylor, Seminole; Amber Surface, Davis; Karen Calvert, Holdenville; Tresa Jo Kagan, Wetumka; Jimmy R. Sullivan Jr., Pittsburg; Pam Wakefield, Stuart; and Valerie Switch, Shawnee.
Others are:
Joyce Criswell Burton, Nicolas R. Claborn and Alicia Cole, all of Ardmore; Courtney Channelle McCarty, Chickasha; Carrie E. Childers, Tuttle; Mandi Dillingham, Marlow; Shana M. Kelsey, Clayton; Brittany Marable, Bethel; Shaelene Alexander Fipps and Rebecca S. Pennel, Paden; and Sallie Lou Harrison, Prague.
