30 Phi Theta Kappa Members Receive Leaders of Promise Scholarships
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - Thirty Phi Theta Kappa members from 15 states
have been named recipients of the 2007 Phi Theta Kappa Leaders of Promise
Scholarships. All scholars receive scholarships of $1,000 to further
their associate degree studies.
The Leaders of Promise Scholarship
Program provides new Phi Theta Kappa members with financial resources
to help defray educational expenses while enrolled at a two-year college.
The program also provides opportunities and encourages students to assume
leadership roles by participating in Society programs.
"The
Leaders of Promise Scholarship funds provided represent an investment
in human potential," explained Rod A. Risley, Phi Theta Kappa Executive
Director. "Our objective is to provide the resources and programs that
will result in the emergence of strong moral servant leaders."
The
2007 Leaders of Promise Scholarship recipients are:
Rebekah
Bernard, Quinsigamond Community College, Massachusetts
Susan
Blick, Collin County Community College, Texas
Sandra Bolton, Des
Moines Area Community College, Iowa
Rebecca Brush, Kellogg Community
College, Michigan
Daniel Burgess, New River Community College,
Virginia
Calina Carter, Tulsa Community College, Oklahoma
Alyssa
Christenson, Cottey College, Missouri
Jeremy Dertien, Austin Community
College, Texas
Darla Eide, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa
Samantha
Eppes, St. Petersburg College, Florida
Morgan Gibson, Wharton County
Junior College, Texas
Michael Glidden, Manatee Community College,
Florida
Stacy Helmus, Broward Community College, Florida
Nataliya
Herasymova, Cottey College, Missouri
Ignace Komlan Hounwanou,
Bellevue Community College, Washington
Zanele Kutamo, Ivy Tech
Community College of Indiana, Indiana
Paola Mariselli, Broward
Community College, Florida
Anton Martynenko, Carl Albert State
College, Oklahoma
Maud Meulstee, Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio
Susan
Miller, College of DuPage, Illinois
Joseph Oliver, Illinois Valley
Community College, Illinois
Christopher Page, Wharton County Junior
College, Texas
Jerald Paschke, Pearl River Community College, Mississippi
Dharmesh
Patel, Richland College, Texas
Cortny Ruggles, Northeast Wisconsin
Technical College, Wisconsin
Rezart Sina, Miles Community College,
Montana
Christopher Thomas, Oakland Community College, Michigan
Bethany
Trahey, Delta College, Michigan
Donna Wenzel, John Tyler Community
College, Virginia
Juan Zabrodiec, Meridian Community College,
Mississippi
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society,
headquartered in Jackson, 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.
