Left to Right, Top to Bottom, Tim Lindblom, Nancy McSpadden, Gloria Everson, Erin Moss, Alan McNamee, Terrell Tebbetts, Cathy Bordeau, Rachel Miesner, Allyn Dodd, Haley Skinner, Ashley Dorsey, Laura McWilliams, Julie Sandy, Jessica Throesch, Doug Rinehart, John Boling, Rob Frank, Nathan Reinhardt, Drew Dunham

 The Arkansas Iota chapter at Lyon College, Batesville, Ark., has been named the outstanding chapter in Alpha Chi for 2005-07, taking home the President’s Cup award from the 2007 national convention.
The Lyon chapter impressed the panel of judges with an array of campus activities centered on weekly lunch meetings of the members, a chapter tradition. Its President’s Cup application for 2006-07, even though the year was not finished, listed 22 programs—six academic or performance presentations by students, six such presentations by faculty members, two presentations by guests speakers on applying to graduation school and looking for careers, one induction ceremony, one bird-watching outing, and six informational or organizational meetings. The list for 2005-06 totaled 27 programs.
Another strength of the chapter from 2004 to 2007 was five community service activities, including furnishing ushers for on-campus events open to the community, providing facilitators for the college’s Regional History Day, tutoring in campus labs, providing Spanish translators for public school events such as parent-teacher conferences, and providing the leadership core to establish a chapter of Habitat for Humanity in Batesville.
Lyon students have also been active at regional and national conventions, with three making scholarly presentations in 2007, six in 2006, and six in 2005. The chapter regularly nominates members for regional and national scholarships; in the past three years, two have been chosen as recipients and four have been alternates. Arkansas Iota has also been named a Star Chapter in each of the last three years. At the national convention, the Lyon delegation received the traveling trophy of the President’s Cup from the 2005 winning chapter, Oklahoma Gamma at East Central University. Other nominees for the award this year were Concord University, Evangel University, Friends University, Gardner-Webb University, and John Brown University.