Forty-one inducted into Phi Theta Kappa
Published or Revised November 15, 2007
Forty-one Paris Junior College students were inducted into Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of the two-year college, during ceremonies held recently at all three College campuses, according to Joe Jackson, sponsor. Guest speaker for the Greenville campus ceremony was John Shasteen, financial aid/academic advisor. He is an alumni of Phi Theta Kappa from the Psi Iota chapter at North Central Texas Community College in Gainesville. Guest speaker for the Sulphur Springs campus ceremony was Rene Campbell, the Texas Region District III vice president of PTK. She is from the Alpha Omega chapter at TSTC, Waco. Campbell was accompanied to Sulphur Springs by one of her advisors. Phi Theta Kappa is the largest honor society in American higher education with more than 1.7 million members and 1,100 chapters throughout the 50 states, territories, Canada and Germany. To be eligible for membership, a student must have completed one regular semester at Paris Junior College, accumulated 12 semester hours, have a grade point average of 3.5, and be within the upper scholastic 10 percent of the regularly enrolled student body. Students inducted and their hometowns include:- Paris: Patrick Baird, Trent Black, Brittany Cleere, Anna Lewis, John Strickland, Tyler Michael
- Arlington: Bryce Peterman
- Avery: Kimberly Lance
- Bagwell: Marissa Edmonson, Kimberly Gupta, Holly Slenk
- Bogata: Vallery Schmidt
- Caddo Mills: Taylor Mercer
- Commerce: Amber Moore
- Como: Cari Harris
- Cooper: Tasha Bradley
- Dike: Nancy Lamphere
- Emory: Sharyse Huddleston, Debbie Ricketts
- Greenville: Alesa Benson, Ashely Crutcher, Hope Figueroa, Andrea hall, Lacey Hansell, Alora Huff, Elizabeth McConnell, Teresita Reep, Jeffery Stacy
- Klondike: Nikki Worden
- Ladonia: Elizabeth Dahlin
- Lone Oak: Betty Williams
- Pickton: Jennifer Boyd, Mary Watkins
- Powderly: Angela Balentine, Debra Floyd, Sheryl Riley
- Quinlan: Joseph Coats
- Reno: Erica Anderson, Dana Cope
- Sulphur Springs: Tammie Brown, Andrea Cordova, Jason Harmon, Kathy Maxwell
- Wolfe City: Bobbi Vaughan
- Yantis: Kay Glenn