Society Press Releases Local Chapter Events 2008 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis and Friends (essay contest)
University of Texas at Brownsville Chapter's Zoo Day Event (video)2008 National Scholarship Competition Winners Two postgraduate members and 24 undergraduate members of Alpha Chi have been named recipients of the society's
fellowships and scholarships for 2008-09.Faculty members and Undergraduates Elected to the National Council Two faculty members and seven undergraduates have been elected to seats on the 22-member National Council of Alpha Chi, the national college honor society, and will serve until 2010.
Distinguished Alumnus 2001 Completes Space Mission
Clayton Anderson, Alpha Chi’s 2001 Distinguished Alumnus, returned to Earth Nov. 7 with the Space Shuttle Discovery after spending 152 days in orbit as a crew member of the International Space Station. Anderson, a flight engineer, flew in June to the station on the Space Shuttle Endeavor with NASA’s STS-118 mission team, his first space flight. He is an alumnus of the Nebraska Alpha chapter at Hastings College. Keep up with Anderson's in-flight journal at NASA Web site.
Alpha Chi Pioneer Ed Gaston Remembered
We regret to announce the death of Dr. Edwin W. Gaston, Jr., president of the National Council of Alpha Chi from 1967 to 1979 and the society's Distinguished Alumnus of 1999. Dr. Gaston died on October 12 in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the age of 82. Dr. Gaston's presidency saw rapid expansion of Alpha Chi in number of chapters and national prestige. Read his obituary here.
Alpha Chi Loses Two Dignitaries
Dr. Charles McDowell and Dr. John "Mike" WhiteGraduate Students to Be Inducted
Delegates at the national convention on March 17, 2007, voted to amend the Constitution of Alpha Chi to create a new membership status for graduate students. The change, effective immediately, allows chapters to induct graduate or professional students at their institutions.
National Scholarship Winners 2007
The winners and alternates of the national scholarships to be awarded fall 2007.Executive Director's Awards 2007
Marilyn Jones and Stephen Rowe win awards.
Distinguished Service Awards 2007
Ten sponsors are honored.DVD on Academic Integrity Available
On April 3, 2007, the chapters at Concord University (West Virginia Beta) and Bluefield College (Virginia Kappa) sponsored a live video conference on "The Integrity of Academic Writing." With the help of Dr. Steve Rowe, sponsor at Concord, we are pleased to offer a free DVD of this one-hour conference to Alpha Chi chapters. (more info)2007 Convention Wrap-Up
More than 400 delegates from about 100 chapters of Alpha Chi gathered in San Antonio March 15-17 for the honor society's biennial national convention and the meeting theme of "Celebrating Honor."Lyon College Takes 2007 President’s Cup
The Arkansas Iota chapter at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, has been named the outstanding chapter in Alpha Chi for 2005-07, taking the President’s Cup home from the 2007 national convention
National Council Members Elected
Four faculty seats on the National Council of Alpha Chi were filled in elections at the 2007 convention in San Antonio. Two first-time members, Dr. David Basena of Bowie State University and Dr. Lori Mills of Milligan College, joined incumbents Dr. Michael Flachmann of California State University, Bakersfield, and Dr. Ann Kneavel of Goldey-Beacom College in winning four-year terms on the 22-member governing board. (More information.)Last spring the seven regions of Alpha Chi elected new student representatives to the National Council at their spring regional conventions.
National Officers Re-elected
All three incumbent officers of the National Council were re-elected to their posts in a business meeting of the newly seated Council on March 16 in San Antonio. Filling their second four-year terms will be the president, Dr. Clark Youngblood of Grand Canyon University, and the vice president, Dr. Ellen Millsaps of Carson-Newman College. Dr. Blake Janutolo of Anderson University was elected to his third four-year term as secretary.
Convention Presentation Prize Winners
Twenty-six students won or shared cash prizes for the best academic presentations at the 2007 national convention. They were among some 175 students on the scholarly program, which featured topics across the full range of disciplines. The presentation prizes, endowed by alumni and friends of the society, carried stipends of $200. (More on the winners)
Scholarship Program Expanded by 20 Percent
Alpha Chi's scholarship and fellowship program for undergraduate members has increased with the addition of 20 percent more recipients and nearly 24 percent more funding beginning with awards for the 2007-08 academic year. The National Council voted at its March 2006 meeting to add two fellowships in the Sledge/Benedict competition and two scholarships in the Gaston/Nolle competition, both of which had offered 10 awards. In 2007-08, for recipients beginning their first year of graduate or professional study, there will be two Sledge Fellowships worth $3,500 each and 10 Benedict Fellowships worth $2,500 each. For recipients who will be in their senior year of undergraduate study, there will be two Gaston Scholarships worth $2,500 and 10 Nolle Scholarships worth $1,500 each. With the additional awards, the total amount of these fellowship and scholarship stipends will be $52,000 annually. The current total is $42,000.
Alpha Chi also grants a $5,000 Pryor Fellowship each year to an active alumni member who is engaged in graduate or professional study.Executive Director Dennis Organ said that the decision to increase Alpha Chi's commitment to scholarships was made possible in part by increased revenues from Alpha Chi's partnerships with MBNA America, which offers the society's affinity credit card, and Brown's Graduation Supplies, merchandiser of Alpha Chi products.Oklahoma Pathologist Named Distinguished Alumnus
Dr. Tommy Hewett, a 1967 inductee of the Oklahoma Gamma chapter at East Central University, was honored at the 2007 national convention as an Alpha Chi Distinguished Alumnus. Hewett is managing director of AmeriPath Oklahoma, a division of one of the nation's leading providers of anatomic pathology and molecular diagnostics.
Academic Integrity Project Continues
Alpha Chi has launched a two-year project to promote academic integrity on its member campuses. To help you promote this on your campus, Alpha Chi has posted the information and ideas generated at its most recent national convention.
Remembering "Mr. Alpha Chi"
Dr. Joseph E. Pryor, a leader in Alpha Chi for more than three decades before his retirement as executive director in 1993, died October 27, 2006, in Searcy, Arkansas, at the age of 88. A tribute to Dr. Pryor can be found here.
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