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May 6, 2008
LANE'S HONOR SOCIETY CAPTURES AWARDS
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Dee Lauzon |
Eugene, Ore. - Phi Theta Kappa honor students and leaders from Lane Community College brought home top awards from the society's annual convention last month.
President Mary Spilde was awarded a Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction. Vice President for Instruction and Student Services Sonya Christian was awarded a Distinguished Administrator Award. Chapter Advisor Velda Arnaud won a Paragon Award for New Advisors for the third year in a row. Dee Lauzon, student president of Lane's Sigma Zeta chapter, was elected international vice president of PTK’s Division IV.
Lauzon, of Eugene, is pursuing an associate of arts Oregon Transfer degree and plans to major in biology or psychology at the University of Oregon. She hopes to eventually earn a master's degree from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut and pursue a career in forensic pathology. She served as Southern Vice President for the Rocky Mountain-Cascade Region of Phi Theta Kappa before enrolling at Lane and joining the Sigma Zeta chapter.
Lane’s chapter received the Scholarship Hallmark Award was named a one of the top 25 chapters in the society.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,250 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, 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 two million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
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PIO: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contact: Velda Arnaud, PTK chapter advisor, (541) 463-5682, arnaudv@lanecc.edu
