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News Release
April 17, 2007
BSU Students, Faculty and Mayor of Boise Inducted into Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi inducted 78 students as plus four faculty and
the mayor of Boise into the Boise State University chapter on Sunday, April 15,
in the Rose Room in downtown Boise. In addition to being inducted, Mayor Dave
Bieter served as the keynote speaker. Tony Roark, professor of philosophy, was
elected 2007-2008 president of Phi Kappa Phi’s Chapter 159.
Phi Kappa Phi, founded in 1897, is the nation’s oldest, largest and most
selective all-discipline honor society, with chapters on nearly 300 campuses in
the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The society inducts
approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni each year.
Membership in Phi Kappa Phi is by invitation and requires nomination and
approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of
juniors having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate
students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees
may also qualify, as can faculty, professional staff and alumni who have
achieved scholarly distinction.
This year’s student inductees are:
Lorna Lee Andersen; Kira Lind Barsotti; Angela Joyce Batchelor; Dallas James
Becker; Jason T. Bell; Roy Thomas Bode; Kylie Glen Boggess; Lincoln G.
Bollschweiler; Jason W. Boyd; Lindsey Allene Braun; Kristin Marie Brown; Garry
Walter Bronrigg; Andrea E. Burnie; Jaime Lynn Cargill; Julie Kay Carr; Stephanie
Carroll; Katherine Rogers Coghlan; Haley Dawn Coleman; Emerald Ann Douthit;
Teresa Lynn England; Monty Fleenor; Sarah Morrill Freking; Rebekah Suzanne
Gould; Wendy Gay Green; Daniel E. Hardin; Robin M. Hausheer; Brenda Sue
Helgerson; Nancy Frances Hernandez; Zoe Louise Hewett; Heather Holland; Jerry
Allen Hubbard; Katie Marie Ingram; Katie Conlon Jacobs; Margaret S. Jensen;
Andrea M. Johnson; Daria Kanevski; Laura Kathleen Keys; Cheryl Kingsford; John
David Laughlin; Christa Sharyn Ledbetter; Arin Lindstrom; Abram Ricks Lines;
Benjamin Walter Marcoe; Kathryn Emiko Matsuura; Christine White McGrew; Lisa L.
McKinley; Elizabeth Strachan Miller; Theresa Marie Mills; Christopher Todd
Minert; Jamie Marie Montgomery; Michael Carl Moore; Gaylene Munroe; Buffy
Christine Naillon; Andrew Jacob Ormond; Carol A. Peck; Matthew Henry Purdy; Cory
James Reche; Michael William Reed; Cory Ryan Sanford; Taryn Noel Sanford; Lisa
M. Schoetther (VanderWyst); Lila Rose Shearer; Brenda L. Simon; Matthew Jason
Somero; Dale Robert Spangler; Catherine Marie Stish; Brandon James Stoker; Eiko
Hiraoka Strader; Michael Gregory Strader; Nadine Denise Taylor; Adam Alejandro
Torres; Marla Kay VanSkiver; Maria D. Venegas; Karen I. Wadley; Robin Sue White-Sieber;
Cheryl J. Winters; Nicolas Gene Wynkoop; and James Clifton Young.
This year’s faculty inductees are:
Stephen Crowley, philosophy; Natalie Nelson Marsh, communication; Caile E.
Spear, health promotion; and Richard A. Young, art.
More About Phi Kappa Phi
Since its founding, more than a million members have been initiated into Phi
Kappa Phi. Some of the organization’s more notable members include former
President Jimmy Carter, NASA Astronaut Wendy Lawrence, Baylor University head
women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson, writer John Grisham and Netscape
founder James Barksdale. The Society has awarded approximately $11.5 million
since the inception of its awards program in 1932. Today, more than $700,000 is
awarded annually to qualifying members and non-members through graduate
fellowships, undergraduate study abroad scholarships, member and chapter awards
and grants for local and national literacy initiatives.
For more information about Phi Kappa Phi, call (800) 804-9880 or visit
www.PhiKappaPhi.org.
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Contact: Heidi Reeder, Phi Kappa Phi public relations officer, (208)
426-2404, hreeder@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
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