Seniors Named to Phi Beta Kappa

                        HOLLAND - Fifty-eight of HopeCollege's graduating seniors and recent graduates are being initiated into the Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest scholastic honorary society.

For more than 200 years, election to Phi Beta Kappa has been a recognition of intellectual capacity well-employed, especially in acquiring an education in the liberal arts and sciences. The objectives encouraged by Phi Beta Kappa include intellectual honesty and tolerance, range of intellectual interests and understanding--not merely knowledge.

Hope faculty who are members of Phi Beta Kappa elected the students in recognition of their high grade point average in liberal arts courses, their broad cultural interests, and their independent and creative scholarly activities outside the classroom.

A formal initiation ceremony and reception will take place on Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall. The honorees will also be recognized during the college's Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.

HopeCollege is one of only 280 colleges and universities in the country and eight in Michigan to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Hope's chapter was chartered in 1971.

Phi Beta Kappa Honorees

Ryan Alfuth, Eau Claire, Wisc.

Emily Bauss, Kalamazoo

Julia Becker, Glenview, Ill.

Bradley Boelkins, Ada

Kelsey Bos, Holland

Shannon Brenneman, Wadsworth, Ohio

Nicole Buccella, Belmont

Caitlyn Buscher, Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Michael Debowski, Venetia, Pa.

Jeanine De Jong, Plainfield, Ill.

Silvia Diffenderfer, Escondido, Ca.

John Donkersloot, Zeeland

Jacob Douma, Lansing, Ill.

Sara Dykstra, Rockford

Sarah Eklov, Farmington Hills

Cameron Flint, Ravenna

Heather Fuglseth, Holland

Andrew Gehl, Mason

Laura Grimm, Hudsonville

Megan Haserodt, North Olmsted, Ohio

Scott Hawken, Wyoming

Jonathan Herman, BentonHarbor

Benjamin Hertel, Fennville

Leah Hottel, Westlake, Ohio

Laura Imbrock, Grove City, Ohio

Lucas Johnson, Cadillac

Abbey Johnston, Holland

Stephanie Kahn, Northbrook, Ill.

Andrew Klinkman, Ann Arbor

Brittany Lawson, Maplewood, Minn.

Thao Le, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam

Jeana Longoria, HowardCity

Chelsea Lynch, Westwood, N.J.

Ian Magrath, Pentwater

Karly Murphy, Muskegon

Loan Nguyen, Grand Rapids

Anna Nieboer, Kalamazoo

Pieter Norden, Dublin, Ohio

Caleb Park, Traverse City

Stephen Pedersen, Vernon Hills, Ill.

Julia Peterson, Grand Rapids

Jacob Rollenhagen, Ada

Katelyn Rumsey, Zeeland

Kendra Short, Wapakoneta, Ohio

Rachel Sikkema, Midland

Danielle Silletti, Canton

Kevin Soubly, Plymouth

Sarah Stern, Virginia Beach, Va.

Susan Stevenson, Granger, Ind.

Sarah Stinson, Stilwell, Kan.

Mary Tennant, West Olive

Kylie Topliff, Williamston

Elizabeth Van Oss, Wheaton, Ill.

Lyndi Weener, Grand Rapids

Anne Willmert, Wabash, Ind.

Melissa Winegar, Portage

Valerie Winton, Lake Bluff, Ill.

Lauren Zahn, Saline

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