20 Phi Theta Kappa Members Named 2008 Guistwhite Scholars
Jackson, MS - Twenty Phi Theta Kappa members were selected as 2008
Guistwhite Scholarship recipients and recognized during the
Phi Theta Kappa International Convention in Philadelphia April 4-6.
Guistwhite
Scholars are chosen based on academic achievement, participation in Phi
Theta Kappa programs and service to their colleges and communities. A panel
of independent judges review applications and select up to 20 winners.
Each Guistwhite Scholar is awarded a $5,000 scholarship for baccalaureate
studies.
The
Guistwhite Scholar Program is named in honor of Dr. Jack Guistwhite,
who with his wife Margaret, established the first designated transfer
scholarship for Phi Theta Kappa members.
The 2008 Guistwhite
Scholars are:
Nahiris Bahamon, College of DuPage, Illinois
Jennifer
Clark, Central Community College, Nebraska
Rachelle Cooley, Mississippi
Gulf Coast Community College, Jackson County
Campus, Mississippi
Leanne Dogoldogol, Mount San Antonio College, California
Joanna
Gargin, Mid Michigan Community College, Harrison Campus, Michigan
Lyndee
Goetz, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, Arizona
Shannon Hatcher,
Chipola College, Florida
Ashley Hovda, Oklahoma City Community
College, Oklahoma
David Kariuki, Essex County College, New Jersey
Alison
Lamm-Chapman, Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, Arizona
Amanda
Lassetter, McLennan Community College, Texas
Casey Maliszewski,
Raritan Valley Community College, New Jersey
Paola Mariselli, Broward
Community College, North Campus, Florida
Rebecca Martos, Paradise
Valley Community College, Arizona
Danielle Nemeth, Lake-Sumter
Community College, Leesburg Campus, Florida
Ashley Odell, Manchester
Community College, Connecticut
Dharmesh Patel, Richland College,
Texas
Kendall Ramsijewan, Broward Community College, South Campus,
Florida
Belsis Romero, Cy-Fair College, Barker Cypress Campus,
Texas
Ana Tavares, Bevill State Community College, Hamilton Campus,
Alabama
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered
in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher
education with more than 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.
