April 29, 2002

Construction Honor Society Chapter Established at Boise State

The Micron Upsilon IV chapter of Sigma Lambda Chi, the international construction honor society, was chartered last week in the department of construction management at Boise State University.

The installation ceremony was led by Darlene Septelka of Washington State University, who is a national director of Sigma Lambda Chi. The organization was established in 1949 and is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. Chapters may be established at a college or university that has a major discipline of education in construction. To be installed by a chapter, a student member must be at least a junior and be in the upper 20 percent of his or her class.

Construction management professor Charles Gains, the chapter’s faculty adviser, and Boise State CM graduates Dustin Smith and John Edwards, both of Boise, are among the members of the new chapter. Installed student members are Jeffrey Tonkin, Landon Winter, Michael Arrington, Mark Smith, Damie Lasater, Mark Gerosin, Trey Crookston and Brian Klemme, Boise; Jason Derricot, Twin Falls; Harrison Hotchkiss, Parma; Tim Bybee, Middleton; Ryan Lind, Nampa; James Ball, Hamer; and Steve Dalgarno, Casper, Wyo.

According to the University of Nebraska’s Linda Swoboda, Sigma Lambda Chi president, there are 55 chapters and more than 10,000 current members in the United States and Australia.

For more information, visit Sigma Lambda Chi’s official web site of at: http://www.tech.purdue.edu/bcm/resources/slcintl.