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New initiates: This spring we initiated 54 students into the Society. We awarded the Howard Prize
to new member Xuemei Cai. Our speaker, John Hildebrand, Professor of Neurobiology, inspired initiates, their friends
and families, and faculty with a talk on "Finding One's Muse".
Alpha Chapter last fall sponsored PBK Visiting Scholar Carolyn Dewald, who gave a very popular and challenging
lecture on Herodotus and co-taught a class in the Classics Department.
Delegates to the Triennial:
President:
Vice President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Submitted by:
Programs and Activities:
We hosted Dr. Harry Berger, as a visiting scholar through PBK on Feb 13th and 14th, 2003. He gave
a formal presentation entitled "Harrying the Stage: Henry 5 in the Teralogical Echo Chamber." This event
was extremely well attended. Dr. Berger also met with students, faculty and PBK members in informal groups and
spoke in a Shakespean upper division class.
Drs. Sanford Cohn and Barbara Kerr, gave a warmly received keynote address on April 22, 2003. Their address was
entitled " Gender and Genius".
Michelle O'Hair-Shattenburg, Judge of the City of Tempe and ASU Phi Beta Kappa in 1976 spoke on the "Anatomy
of Criminal Justice" in November.
We hosted "movie night" in the Fall, 2002 - showing 3 films between September and November.
Our annual induction banquet was well attended (over 100 guests and initiates) and was held on April 22, 2003.
71 students have been initiated (so far) this academic year (2002-2003).
Awards:
Past President Rebecca Stephenson received a well deserved Chapter Award for Service to the Beta
of Arizona Chapter of PBK.
Several certificates of appreciation for service went to: William Fabricius, Sanford Cohn, Jennifer Hornsby and
Kate Lehman.
Meetings:
We met regularly in the Fall and Spring, and conducted a lot of business over the phone and by email.
Two members (Rebecca Stephenson and Kate Lehman) attended the annual meetings of two local PBK chapters (Phoenix
PBK and Young PBK) in order to keep the ASU chapter apprised of the local associations' activities and events.
Kate Lehman will be our delegate to the Triennial in Seattle this summer.
President:
Vice President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Historian:
Past President:
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Website: http://pbk.berkeley.edu
At the ceremony on April 29, 2003, 18 juniors, 188 seniors, and 8 graduate students were initiated
into the society. The principal speaker was Professor Thomas C. Leonard, University Librarian at the University
of California, Berkeley.
Each year our chapter, based on a competition, awards four to six fellowships to graduate students at Berkeley
who are members of Phi Beta (from whatever undergraduate institution) and who need extra support for the completion
of their doctoral dissertations. The awards this year were of $4500 each.
In the last few years we have experienced a significant drop in the number of seniors who, after being invited
to join the society, actually accept initiation. This problem does not seem to be unique to Berkeley. We look forward
to the opportunity of discussing it at the Triennial in Seattle.
Delegate to 2003 Triennial: Professor Johnson
Officers:
Professor
(French Emeritus), President
Professor Basil Guy (French Emeritus), Vice-President; Secretary
Professor
(Public Health Emerita),
Treasurer
Ms.
, Office Manager
Submitted by: Professor
Our chapter elected and initiated 7 Junior Phi Betes in Fall 2002, and elected and initiated
an additional 48 graduating students in Spring 2003. Graduating senior Sarah Chankin-Gould was presented our Benjamin
Culley Prize as the student whose initiative and creativity beyond the classroom most significantly enhanced the
quality of intellectual life in our community. The chapter also selected Regan Andrew Jones for the Alpha Association's
Ritter Graduate Study Award. Regan will be entering UT - Austin in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
In April 2003, we hosted Dr. Harry Berger, Jr. from UC - Santa Cruz as a PBK Visiting Scholar. He visited several
classes, met with students and faculty, and gave a wonderful all-campus talk entitled "Realism, Performance
Anxiety, and Creepy Crawlers: On 17th Century Dutch Still Lifes and Portraits".
The Chapter thanked Professors Dennis Eggleston and Ramin Naimi for their many years of service as secretary and
treasurer respectively. Vice-President Morgan Pitelka will be attending the Triennial on our behalf.
Officers for 2003-2004:
President -
(Mathematics)
Vice-President -
(Asian Studies)
Secretary -
(Financial Aid)
Treasurer -
(Economics)
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Two Major Programs were extremely successful this academic year and demonstrated an increasing interest in and
dedication to study in the Liberal Arts.
I Academic Honors Convocation
This is a major, traditional University Program Celebrating outstanding scholars. USC Phi Beta Kappa honors Two
excellent scholars to be honored at this significant occasion.
Melissa Patterson: English
Matthew Weir : Economics, Art History
II Annual Initiation
Epsilon Chapter proudly initiated 102 superb scholars in the College of Letters Arts and Sciences. Professor Robin
Romans, Director of our prestigious Thematic Option Program presented an excellent Address on the vitally important
and essential emphasis on the challenging topic: A Future for Liberal Arts.
Epsilon Chapter has a memorable tradition: Phi Beta Kappa Valedictorian Matthew Weir, USC Student Body President
and presented a challenging speech to fellow scholars, faculty, administrators, and families.
In the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, emphasis on the imperative arena
of classical and modern study in the Liberal Arts is a Major concern supported by excellent new and continuing
courses, majors, and research programs in fundamental and as well commanding transcendent fields of study. Prominent
, world-wide Scholars are joining our excellent Faculty Leaders.
Officers - 2002-2003-2004
President:
, Professor: History
Vice President: Dr. Arnold Dunn, Professor Biological Sciences
Secretary Treasurer:
, Emerita, College
of Letters Arts and Sciences
Submitted by:
Projected number of initiates.
According to our Constitution and By-laws we limit the number of candidates to the top 7% of the L&S graduating
class. The total number of graduates is estimated to be 5,500, permitting us to select up to 385 candidates. We
have stayed well within these guidelines in the past several years.
Awards
1. As in past years we have been invited to select a recipient for a Southern California Alumni Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $3,500. The
recipient must pursue a graduate course of study starting in coming Fall of the current academic year (2003-2004).
2. The Chapter administers an endowment fund of approximately $42,000 whose annual yield comprises the Pauline
Turrill 19th Century Music Award (to be not less than $1,200). The recipient must be a musicologist in 19th Century
Music and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. We have not been able to identify a suitable candidate from Southern California
for the past three years and the proceeds of the fund have been added to the principal. A sub-committee has been
appointed to propose terms to broaden the search and administer the award.
Honorary Initiate
This is described in item III.5 of the original Chapter Constitution. This is intended for "...men and women,
not graduates of the Institution, who by contributions in the fields of the Humane Sciences and Letters ...have
since graduation given clear evidence of the possession of distinguished scholarly capacities." If the individual
has graduated from another Institution having a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, "...consent of that chapter..."
needs to be obtained.
Lori Stein will be UCLA's delegate to the Triennial.
Chapter officers
President: Prof.
Vice-President: none
Secretary: Ass't. Dean
Treasurer: Prof.
Historian: none
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Website: www.oiss.ucsb.edu/pbk/
On May 31, 2003 the chapter will initiate 63 new members (42 women and 21 men). We are privileged
to have R. Stephen Humphreys, the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of History
as our guest speaker at the initiation ceremony. He will give the Larry Willson Memorial Lecture, "Is the
Middle East a Bottomless Pit?
The chapter works closely with the Honors Program in the College of Letters and Science to inform students about
Phi Beta Kappa. The chapter's web page has been linked to the Honors Program web site and has generated more interest
and awareness among students. www.oiss.ucsb.edu/pbk/
Peter Digeser, Associate Professor of Political Science, has been elected as chapter President for 2003-2004. The
other officers will continue in their current positions. John Doner, Associate Professor of Mathematics, will attend
the Triennial Meeting in Seattle as our chapter delegate.
Chapter Officers:
, President
, Vice-President
, Treasurer
, Secretary
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, Director
324 students will be initiated on June 13, 2003
The delegate to the PBK Triennial Council will be
,
We did not have any visiting lecturers this year.
Current Officers for 2002-03:
, President
, Vice President
, Secretary-Treasurer
, Historian
Officers for 2003-04 (will take office on July 1, 2003):
, President
, Vice President
, Secretary-Treasurer
, Historian
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On four dates between May 5 and May 16, 2003 (the large group with the fullest ceremony on May 8), we initiated
112 new members of Phi Beta Kappa: one Honorary, Professor Donald A. Shojai of our Department of English and Comparative
Literature, and one Alumnus, Clare V. McKanna, Lecturer in our Departments of History and American Indian Studies,
and 110 seniors.
Professor Shojai graduated from Harvard College with a BA in English (1960) and from the University of Michigan
(Ann Arbor) with MA and PhD (1967) degrees in English Language and Literature. He writes fiction under the pen
name Donne Raffat. His three novels are The Caspian Circle, The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi (narrative and translation),
and The Folly of Speaking. One of his graduate courses, frequently in demand, deals with Literary Exiles. He serves
as the chair of two executive committees of the Modern Language Association of America, the Asian Languages and
Literatures Division and the West Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group. Dr. McKanna received his BA
in Social Science and his MA in History from San Diego State in the 1960s and his PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
in 1993. He is the author of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 (University of Arizona
Press, 1997) and Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California (University of Nevada Press, 2002).
Senior initiates were awarded four scholarships, two from the San
Diego area Epsilon Association. While many initiates announced plans for immediate enrollment
in graduate programs, some declared they were taking a year off to enjoy life and regroup before taking the next
academic step.
Activities:
Every Fall semester, we present and honor a Faculty Lcturer. In Fall 2002, Lecturer Sandra Wawrytko, of the Department
of Asia Pacific Studies, a specialist in Chinese language and literature, gave a lively and timely lecture on an
ancient Chinese philosopher's views of war. Dr. Wawrytko has subsequently accepted a tenure-track position here.
Every Spring semester, we invite to campus outstanding students from a local middle school, Granger School. This
is an outreach and encouragement activity. This year we hosted 15 great young students (GPAs ranging from 3.97
to 4.17) and two faculty advisers. They heard an academic pep talk from former Chapter President Professor Emeritus
Henry Janssen, they had lunch with student as well as faculty members of the Chapter, they received gift certificates
for use in our campus bookstore, and they went shopping there.
Chapter Board members' special activity for the year was revising and updating our Constitution and Bylaws. This
activity was prompted in part by pre-incorporation requests for new language from the National Office.
One of our new initiates, from Japan, will be returning to Japan for graduate work. She is interested in meeting
with other Phi Beta Kappas from American universities now in Tokyo. If you have names and addresses (email, especially)
of relevant people, please send that information to
.
Triennial Delegate,
Chapter Officers for 2003-2004:
President,
Vice President,
, Biology
Corresponding Secretary,
, English and Comparative Literature
Membership Secretary,
, Linguistics
Treasurer,
, Library
Historian,
, Biology
Member-at-Large
, Biology
Submitted by:
, Corresponding Secretary
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~pbk
On May 16, 2003, the Chapter initiated 20 new members, including Dr. Gilbert Herdt, Director
of SFSU's Human Sexuality Studies Program. Dr. Herdt, who holds a doctorate in Anthropology, joined 19 students
in fields such as economics, psychology, history, classics, biology, and-a first for our Chapter-kinesiology.
Julia Antoniades of the Northern California Phi Beta Kappa Association helped the Chapter Secretary to orient new
initiates to the many opportunities available as members of the Society.
University President Robert Corrigan greeted the new initiates during the initiation ceremony, and Dr. Frank Kidner,
Professor of History, gave the keynote address. In a now well-established tradition, the new initiates were presented
with the keys of the Society as part of the ceremony, purchased with support from the offices of the university
Provost and President. The initiation ceremony was followed by a dinner for the new initiates, their families and
friends, and members of the Chapter.
Dr. Michael Goldman (Biology), who served this year on the Members in Course Committee, will represent the Chapter
at the upcoming Triennial.
Early next fall, the Chapter will elect new officers to two-year terms.
The officers now completing their terms are:
President:
(Economics)
Vice President:
(Emeritus, History)
Secretary:
(Psychology)
Treasurer:
(Mathematics)
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Website: http://www.scu.edu/pbk/
On June 13, 2003, the Pi of California initiated 41 new members, 39 seniors and 2 juniors, in
the Recital Hall of the Center for Performing Arts. The chapter was honored to have as its speaker Richard H. Osberg,
Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program. The title of Professor Osberg's address was
"The Topography of Academic Satire: Voids, Towers, and the American Scholar." Before the initiation, Professor
Osberg was the guest at a dinner hosted by the chapter at the Adobe Lodge Faculty Club.
During the evening, the chapter presented the David Logothetti Award to Jaami Rahim Franklin, a major in English
and a minor in Philosophy. The award is given to the graduating initiate judged to be the most outstanding future
teacher. The award was presented by Heidi Logothetti, David Logothetti's daughter. Also present at the initiation
as a guest of the chapter was Mary Hanel of the Northern California Phi Beta Kappa Association.
During 2002-3, the Pi of California was once again honored to have Gerald Alexanderson, Michael and Elizabeth Valeriote
Professor of Mathematics, serving Phi Beta Kappa as Senator from the Western District.
The Pi of California will be sending three representatives to the Triennial Meeting in Seattle during August 2003:
Professor Gerald Alexanderson, Professor Stephen Chiappari, and Professor Frederick Parrella. More details about
the Pi of California are available at our website.
The officers of the Pi of California for 2002-3 were as follows:
Stephen Chiappari (Applied Mathematics), President
Gregory Corning (Political Science), Vice President
Frederick Parrella (Religious Studies), Secretary
Julia Yaffee, (Law School), Treasurer
Frank Farris (Mathematics), Historian
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Activities: PBK Orientation and Information meeting for Underclass students (February, 2003)
Application for PBK scholar (Philosophy Dept. and PBK, April 2003)
Initiation Dinner for new Members(May 14, 2003)
Initiates for 2003: 17 seniors and 14 juniors = 31
Delegate to Triennial (Seattle, 2003): Harold Schefski
Officers 2003
, President
, Vice President
, Secretary
, Treasury
, Historian
Submitted by: and
Alpha Chapter of Colorado had another splendid year, albeit with far too few active Chapter particpants.
We initiated 110 new members in December of 2002, and 107 at the end of April 2003. Our long-time Secretary-Treasurer,
and heart and soul, of the Chapter, Gerry Bean finally did retire from the position she had held for so long. Our
pleas kept her involved for much longer than she had intended. In partial recognition of this and other service
to the University of Colorado (including a term as Regent), Gerry was awarded the University Medal at the Spring
2002 Commencement Ceremony.
Thanks to a generous endowment, our Chapter was able to provide our competitive Crisp Fellowship Award of $7500
to two of our seniors to assist in their graduate studies in the liberal arts. The awardees this spring are Christopher
Clary, who graduated with degrees in English and History, and Adriane Genette, with her degrees in English and
Sociology.
Our previous Vice President was Kurt Miller, a graduate student in physics. Kurt created a computer program to
carry out the tedious arithmetic and logic we use to select new invitees to the Chapter. Kurt reported on this
at the 2000 Triennial, and I am sure we can find a way to share the code with other chapters. It is platform-dependent,
so some initial skills are required to get the system going.
Our officers are:
, President
, Vice President
, Secretary-Treasurer
President Peterson will be attending the Seattle Triennial.
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Website: www.colostate.edu/Orgs/PhiBetaKappa/
Our annual initiation took place on April 23, 2003. Eighty-four members-in-course were initiated. Twelve were juniors; the rest seniors. No honorary, alumnus, or foundation members were initiated.
Delegates to the Triennial meeting will be Patricia Smith and Doug Ernest
Officers for 2003-2004:
, President
, Vice President
, Treasurer
, Historian
, Secretary
Submitted by:
, Secretary
Website: http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/pbk/index.html
The Alpha of Hawaii was chartered in 1952 and held its first initiation in 1953, so this year
was our "golden" initiation. In recognition of this milestone, Dr. John Churchill, PBK Secretary, came
out from Washington to pass out certificates and deliver a stellar banquet address. We were honored to have him
and his wife as our guests. We have applied for a PBK Visiting Scholar for next year and are hopeful that our request
will be granted.
In 2001 the Chapter instituted its first scholarship, the Maurer Scholarship, which is awarded to junior initiates.
The scholarship honors over twenty years of service as Secretary to the Chapter by Professor Emeritus of Indo-Pacific
Languages and Literature Walter H. Maurer.
60 students were initiated May 7, 2003.
Sammons and Canham will be delegates to the Triennial in Seattle.
President:
Vice President
Secretary/Treasurer:
Submitted by:
At its annual initiation banquet on March 27, 2003, Alpha of Idaho initiated 5 juniors and 57 seniors as new chapter members. Observing a long-standing tradition, the chapter also recognized 6 sophomores for their outstanding academic achievement in the liberal arts and sciences during their first three semesters at the university. The banquet speaker was Professor James Foster, a computer scientist at the University of Idaho who, with colleagues in the Departments of Mathematics and Biological Sciences, has developed a nationally recognized program in bioinformatics and evolutionary studies. In his address, "Confessions of an Eccentric," Dr. Foster cast the founding and development of this interdisciplinary group in a setting provided by one of his enduringly favorite writers, the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius. His lively, insightful, and amusing talk itself inspired the many chapter members and guests in attendance to reflect further on their own processes of invention and discovery.
At the annual University Honors Convocation on April 4, an event celebrating the achievements of new initiates to chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and other honorary societies sheltered by the institution, the distinguished speaker was Dr. John Harte, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and a member of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Harte was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 1998-99.
The chapter held several meetings during the spring semester both to examine issues regarding the chapter constitution and to initiate planning of the organization's future development and continuing campus leadership role. In a recent restructuring of the university, the College of Letters and Science has been split into two colleges, the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences and the College of Science. Chapter members are exploring ways to ensure sustained dialogue among faculty members and students in the liberal arts and sciences who, by this reorganization, will now be affiliated with separate colleges. The discussion is ongoing.
Chapter officers for 2003-2004 are:
Patricia Taylor, President
Rodney Frey, Vice President
, Secretary/Treasurer
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Website: http://www.uoregon.edu/~pbk/
At the ceremony on June 24, 62 undergraduate students were inducted into membership. The ceremony featured a talk by Karen Sprague, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Approximately 100 students have accepted their invitations to join the society. This was a bit over half of the students invited to join. In addition, six seniors were honored as the "Oregon Six." The Membership Committee selects twelve candidates for this special honor based on their outstanding records as shown on their transcripts. The final selection is then based on letters of recommendation from faculty members who are familiar the candidates' work.
The chapter is proud that its long-standing secretary, Nan Coppock-Bland, is now Director of Chapter Relations for the national society. Alpha of Oregon has been struggling to do without her. Support from the university administration has helped.
Officers:
President and Treasurer: Dennis Todd, Clark Honors College
Vice President: Ian McNeely, Department of History
Secretary: Davison Soper, Department of Physics
Membership Chair: Jenny Young, School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Past President: David Luebke, Department of History
Webmaster: Susan Fagan, Department of English
Executive committee member at large: Stephen Shoemaker, Department of Religious Studies
Executive committee member at large: Gail Unruh, Academic Learning Services
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The Delta of Oregon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is pleased to report that all of our students elected
as members in course this spring accepted membership and were inducted on May 17, 2003. We inducted a total of
30 members in course: 24 seniors and 6 juniors. We also inducted two alumni members: Dr. Patricia Alley and Mr.
Eric Yandell, and one honorary member, Dr. Philip Hanni.
Our visiting scholar this year was Prof. Richard Sutch, Distinguished Prof. of Economics at U.C. Riverside. He
spoke at an informal question and answer session on immigration policy and gave a public lecture entitled "The
Great Depression of the 1930's: Causes, Consequences, and Cures" on September 26, 2002.
Todd Silverstein will be our delegate to the Triennial Conference in Seattle this summer.
Our chapter officers are:
Prof.
, President ();
Dean
, Vice President
Prof.
, Secretary-Treasurer
Prof. Emeritus George McCowen, Historian.
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, Secretary
Website: www.lclark.edu/~pbk/
Our initiation ceremony was held on April 24th, and featured an evening lecture by Professor Jeanne Clark from the University of Arizona and "Presidents and Environmental Policy". Last year's junior initiates were charged with "starting a tradition" for the intitiation ceremony dinner; they chose to subject the chapter officers to a quiz show on obscure Lewis and Clark traditions. We elected two alumnus, nine juniors and 40 seniors.
, President
, Vice President
, Secretary, also delegate
to the triennial
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Website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwpbk/
The Washington Alpha Chapter at the University of Washington has invited 677 students to join
PBK. Acceptances are continuing. The Initiation ceremony will be held on June 12 with Mary-Claire King, Professor
of Medicine and Genome Sciences, the speaker.
Last year, the Chapter approved the Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for the Chapter with its detailed
action steps drawn out of our vision, mission and core values, guided the Executive Committee in planning the year's
activities.
This is the transition year to a new transcript review process with one annual review of both juniors and seniors,
and a revised set of requirements. The required GPA is now 3.70.
The web site and publicity brochure have been completely redesigned. Honorary memberships were awarded for the
first time in many years to John S. Edwards, Professor Emeritus, Zoology; and Charles M. Goldstein, National Library
of Medicine (retired.)
Three Executive Committee members will attend the Triennial in Seattle. They are Louise M. Richards, Michael Shapiro,
and Pamela Stewart.
The officers who will serve in 2003-2004 include:
President:
, Asian Languages and Literature
Vice-President:
, Scandinavian Studies
Secretary:
, Computing and Communications
Treasurer:
, Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, Emerita
Executive Secretary: Gerald Oppenheimer, University Libraries, Emeritus.
Here is the
Submitted by:
, Acting Head, Fisheries-Oceanography
Library
Website: http://www.whitman.edu/astronomy/pbk/pbk.html
Triennial news from Whitman College, where we have just concluded another academic year.
Commencement weekend events included the initiation of new members of the Beta of Washington. This year 33 seniors
and 2 juniors were initiated at a brunch attended by family and friends. College Trustee and respected Seattle
attorney Jim Robart (Phi Beta Kappa 1969) spoke at the event; in his address he recalled the speech made here by
President Teddy Roosevelt 100 years ago today. Recent years have seen Gov. Bob Taft of Ohio address an initiate
class of 41 seniors and 5 juniors (May 2002) and Ryan Crocker, then-ambassador to Syria, speaking to a group of
35 seniors and 3 juniors (May 2001). We continue to succeed in initiating 100% of those elected each spring.
In the fall of 2002 we enjoyed hosting Visiting Scholar Richard Sutch, Distinguished Professor of Economics at
UC Riverside. Generous financial support from Whitman College President Tom Cronin makes it possible for us to
continue to take advantage of the Visiting Scholar program.
Newly elected officers for the upcoming year are:
President: Michelle Janning (Sociology)
Vice-President: Bruce Magnusson (Politics)
Andrea K. Dobson (Astronomy) continues as Secretary-Treasurer
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Our Chapter currently has over 85 members in the faculty and staff at Washington State University, and local members
on our mailing list of about 45. We have a small active group of 10-12, plus the officers, who coordinate the Visiting
Scholar program, our annual Scholarship program for outstanding juniors, and our Spring Initiation and Reception
for new members.
This year our group was encouraged by the active participation of several new younger faculty members who are gradually
taking leadership of the Chapter and the proactive support of the Colleges of Sciences, Liberal Arts and Honors,
which followed up our Invitation letters with personal contact, letters, and offers of paying half of the membership
fee for those invited. Our College of Liberal Arts has also offered to serve as the repository of our active records,
and support center for the new officers who we expect to fill the Secretary, Scholarship and Eligibility Cair positions
in the next few months. The Dean of CLA, Dr. Barbara Couture, will represent our Chapter at the Triennial.
Our Scholarship Committee was able to award six full or partial tuition waivers to juniors, totalling over $30,000,
an annual competition which gives us great pride.
We hope to work hard in 2003-04 and coming years to increase awareness of the PBK amongst incoming students.
Officers are:
President:
, Associate Dean, College
of Agriculture and Home Economics
Vice President:
, Dept of Philosophy
Secretary:
, retired WSU faculty, International
Programs, ( until replaced)
Treasurer:
, WSU Foundation
Scholarship Chair:
, Library
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Delta of Washington elected as new members 25 seniors and 1 junior. The initiation was held on April 22, 2003,
in the Murray Board Room of the Wheelock Student Center, officiated by exiting Chapter President Steve Rogers.
Initiates, their families, and chapter members enjoyed lunch on campus with members of the University of Puget
Sound Board of Trustees on Friday, May 16.
This year, the chapter awarded Slater Scholarships to two students, Mary Kotschwar (Biology Major, French Minor)
and Liana Harding (Natural Science Major). Two students were recipients of Bill Campbell Scholarships. John Whitehead
will receive support for his study of minority groups in China. Tonya Jones will receive support to study at the
University of Burgundy in Dijon France. We also nominated three students, Amanda Buhl, Marie Kjeldgaard, and Sydne
Record, for the PBK Puget Sound Association Scholarships on the basis of their academic achievement and their essays
addressing this year's question: "What is the social responsibility to educate youth?"
Delegate to the Triennial: William Beardsley
Officers for 2003-2004
President: Carolyn Weisz
Vice-President: Karen Porter
Secretary: William Beardsley
Treasurer: Peter Greenfield
Historian: Bob Matthews
Submitted by: Carolyn Weisz
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