Twenty-Five Receive Administrator Awards of Distinction

Jackson, MS - Twenty-five community college administrators were honored with Administrator Awards of Distinction during Phi Theta Kappa's 2008 International Convention in Philadelphia. The Administrator Award of Distinction is awarded to community college vice presidents, deans, or leaders other than college presidents/CEOs serving a community college in an administrative capacity who have demonstrated a strong level of support for Phi Theta Kappa.

The 2008 Administrator Awards of Distinction recipients are:

Dr. Ric Baser, Rose State College, Midwest City, Oklahoma

Dr. Sonya Christian, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon

Dr. Fran Cox, Holmes Community College-Goodman, Goodman, Mississippi

Dr. Mick Donahue, Skagit Valley College-Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, Washington

Dr. Abegail Douglas-Johnson, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey

Dr. Julie Guelich, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota

Dr. Wayne Hatcher, Labette Community College, Parsons, Kansas

Wallace Hoffer, Stark State College, North Canton, Ohio

Dr. Brian Inbody, Neosho County Community College-Chanute, Chanute, Kansas

Dr. Richard Jones, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio

Dr. Kim Linduska, Des Moines Area Community College-Boone, Boone, Iowa

Kathleen Maiuri, Macomb Community College, Warren, Michigan

Dr. Sylvia Orr, Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona

Dr. Louise Pagotto, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii

Dr. Sarah Perkins, St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Missouri

Lance Renner, Ozarks Technical Community College, Springfield, Missouri

Dr. Marilyn Rhinehart, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

Dr. Virginia Stahl, Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, Arizona

Judy Taylor, Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville, Georgia

Mollie Teckenburg, Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Falls, Iowa

Dr. Jean Thompson, Lurleen B. Wallace Community College-Greenville, Greenville, Alabama

Bruce Walthers, Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood, Colorado

Brenda Weddington, Harry S. Truman College, Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Robert Williams, Lone Star College-Cy-Fair, Cypress, Texas

Ronald Young, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, 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.