Twenty-three College Presidents Receive Shirley B. Gordon Awards of Distinction
Jackson, MS - Twenty-three college presidents received 2008 Shirley B.
Gordon Awards of Distinction at Phi Theta Kappa's International Convention
in Philadelphia April 3-5.
This Award of Distinction is named
after Dr. Shirley B. Gordon who serves as Vice Chair of the Phi Theta Kappa
Board of Directors. She is the President Emeritus of Highline Community
College in Washington.
The Gordon award recipients have provided
extensive support and a variety of resources for their colleges' Phi Theta
Kappa chapters, including faculty advisor release time, a line-item budget
for the chapter, financial support for chapters to participate in regional
and international events and scholarships for Phi Theta Kappa members.
Many
of these presidents speak at their chapter inductions, serve as statewide
Phi Theta Kappa presidential ambassadors and coordinate All-State Academic
Team programs.
The recipients of the Shirley B. Gordon Awards
of Distinction for 2008 are:
Dr. James Underwood, Kaskaskia
College, Centralia, Illinois
Dr. Marie Foster-Gnage, West
Virginia University-Parkersburg, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Dr.
Randy Pierce, Georgia Highlands College. Cartersville, Georgia
Dr.
Mary Spilde, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Dr. Dorsey
Kendrick, Gateway Community College, New Haven, Connecticut
Phillip
Davis, Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dr. Edwin Massey, Indian River Community College, Fort Pierce,
Florida
Dr. Michael Chipps, McCook Community College, McCook,
Nebraska
Dr. James Linksz, Bucks County Community College,
Newtown, Pennsylvania
Dr. Raymond Cummiskey, Southeastern
Illinois College, Harrisburg, Illinois
Marcia Pfeiffer,
St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Missouri
Dr.
B. Carlyle Ramsey, Danville Community College, Danville, Virginia
Dr.
Stephen Kinslow, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
Dr.
Lynn Black, Central Community College-Grand Island, Grand Island, Nebraska
Dr.
Larry Litecky, Century College, White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Dr.
Allen Edwards, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville,
Tennessee
Dr. G. Edward Haring, Kellogg Community College,
Battle Creek, Michigan
Dr. Patricia Keir, Scott Community
College, Bettendorf, Iowa and Muscatine Community College, Muscatine,
Iowa
Dr. Flora Tydings, Athens Technical College, Athens,
Georgia
Dr. Vicky Smith, Neosho County Community College-Chanute
Campus, Chanute, Kansas
Dr. Walter Packard, McHenry County
College, Crystal Lake, Illinois
Dr. Guy Altieri, Hagerstown
Community College, Hagerstown, Maryland
Dr. Charles Wall,
Massasoit Community College, Brockton, Massachusetts
Phi
Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, MS,
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.
