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A new class of top academic
performers in a variety of majors was recently elected to
membership in the Zeta of Massachusetts chapter of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society.
Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's
oldest undergraduate honors organization. Its purpose is to
recognize, reward, and encourage scholarship in the liberal
arts and sciences. The Smith College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
was established in 1905. Rules of eligibility are established
by the chapter in accordance with the regulations of the national
society.
Elected Smith students are: Debra
Caldieri AC, a classics major from Northampton; Piecha Chang,
a psychology major from Wayne, Pennsylvania; Kristin W. Davis,
theater/Italian, from South Hadley; Maria J. Heidenreich,
computer science, East Corinth, Vermont; Alexis Lamb, psychology/French,
New Rochelle, New York; Clara Lewis, sociology, Newton, Massachusetts;
Katrina B. Mitchell, anthropology, Middletown, Connecticut;
Sabine Rhyne AC, sociology and anthropology, Putney, Vermont;
Renna Stevens, neuroscience, Watertown, Massachusetts; Kimberly
K. Sullivan, government, Aptos, California; Nora Testerman,
anthropology, Anacortes, Washington; Lisa Unangst, American
studies, Topsham, Maine; and Brita Zitin, comparative literature,
Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Students elected to Phi Beta
Kappa in the fall of their senior year are in the top three
percent of their class and must have taken at least one course
in each of the seven major fields of knowledge in the liberal
arts. An additional group of students is elected in the spring,
before commencement. The total number of students elected
to Phi Beta Kappa in a given year may not exceed 10 percent
of the senior class.
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