Eight College Presidents Receive Shirley B. Gordon Awards of Distinction
Jackson, MS - Eight college presidents received 2009 Shirley B. Gordon
Awards of Distinction at Phi Theta Kappa's Convention in Grapevine, Texas,
April 16-18.
This Award of Distinction is named after the late
Dr. Shirley B. Gordon, who served as Chair of Phi Theta Kappa's Board of Directors
for 20 years. She was 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 2009 are:
Dr. Jack Becherer, Rock Valley
College, Rockford, Illinois
Dr. Mike Ford, Mohave Community
College, Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Dr. Eddie Hadlock, North
Central Texas College, Corinth, Texas
Dr. Terry Leas, Riverland
Community College, Austin, Minnesota
Dr. Chris McCarthy,
Napa Valley College, Napa, California
Dr. James Mitchell,
Wallace Community College, Selma, Alabama
Dr. Lawrence Rouse,
James Sprunt Community College, Kenansville, North Carolina
Mr.
Donald Supalla, Rochester Community & Technical College, Rochester,
Minnesota
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in
Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher
education with 1,250 chapters on 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.
