Trinity Valley Community College’s Iota Alpha chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges, inducted 52 members in a ceremony held Sunday, October 25 in the Student Union Building on the Athens Campus.
Inductees were Dayana Castillo, Christopher Collins, Emery Cooper, Jeremiah Foster, Caryn Jackson, Margaret Simmons, Samantha Smith and Lauren Takata of Athens; Adriana Gutierrez, Rachel Johnson, Erika Parker and Sarah Stinson of Canton, Colton Daniel of Cayuga, Katherine Jenkins of Combine, Kayla Diaz of Cypress, Mayah Cruz of Dallas, Thomas Hanley of Eustace, Matthew Granvold of Forney, Felisha Hickman of Fruitvale, Makayla David of Grand Saline, Lauren Brown and Heather Hoag of Grapeland; Kerensa Cottrell of Gun Barrel City, Christina Miller of Kemp, Syquoria Moore of Lancaster, Debra Shepherd of Larue, Ryan Donovan and Jamie Knight of Mabank, Debra Brown and Sydney Harris of Malakoff; Sarah Furlong of Murchison, Sarah Belt, Theophila Deamisi, Phuong Do, Amy Kelley and Kelsey Owens of Palestine; Madison Fuller of Rockwall, Paolo Aguilar, Evangelina Bulkley, Molly Cole, Austin Harris, Preston Harris, Ariel McLemee, Kaitlyn Pruitt, Keilan Rodgers, Guadalupe Tovar, Delfina Valdelamar, Jesse Valdelamar, Jonathan Valdelamar, Ramiro Velazquez and Kimberly Wilhite of Terrell and Shelby Rotenberry of Wills Point.
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.