By Mark Meredith/TVCC Public Information
Trinity Valley Community College’s Iota Alpha chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges, inducted 57 members in a ceremony held Sunday, March 20 in the Student Union Building on the Athens Campus.
Inductees were Rebecca Archer, David Baldridge, Judith Bobo, Daniel Brewer, Allison Hardin, John Head, Jacob Ickes, Tyler Johnson, Hannah Jones, Allison Kalawe, Laci Logan, Gillian Pool, Alyssa Shaddox, Jennifer Shardlow, Olivia Whatley and Emma Womble of Athens; Gloria Rivera of Ben Wheeler; Lauren Holland of Broken Arrow, OK; Maurica Caines of Brownsboro; Michael Finn, Ashley McDonald and Samantha Smith of Canton; Dakota Chappell of Combine; Amy Morton and Danial Purselley of Eustace; Angel Mansukhani of Fort Worth; Raven Bagley and Audra Harmon of Frankston; Jose Gomez of Fruitvale; Ethan Elliott of Grapeland; Nathan Bailey, Calli Jean Ceranski and Madeline Maldonado of Gun Barrel City; Dion Mack of Hearne; Kaileigh Prather of Heartland; Alyssa Delossantos of Houston; Anthony Berry of Kaufman; Sean Dykes, Timothy Horton, Kelley Karnes, Mathew Caleb Lowry and Rasheem Wynn of Mabank; Maci Mattingly, Savannah Meider, Sara Beth Spivey and Emily Stiles of Malakoff; Moriah Haynes of Montalba; Cathlynn Edwards and Ezra King of Murchison; Amanda Nicole Starling and Macy Stone of Palestine; Rhett Parmer of Pollok; Vincent Tobin of Poynor; Caden Novikoff of San Antonio, Austin Cox of Seven Points; Shawn Deguire of Temple and Tyler Crone of Winnie.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in higher education with 1,275 chapters on college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, Peru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates, and U.S. territorial possessions. More than 3 million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 134,000 students inducted annually.