30 Phi Theta Kappa Members Receive Leaders of Promise Scholarships
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - Thirty Phi Theta Kappa members from 21 states have
been named recipients of the 2009 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 GEICO Scholarship recognizes
the two top scoring Leaders of Promise applicants who are declared business
majors. Each recipient receives a $1,000 scholarship. The GEICO Scholarship,
provided by Geico Insurance, is being offered for the first time in 2009.
The GEICO Scholarship recipients are Oyunjargal Khishigdorj, College
of Southern Nevada, and Jonathan Leon, Wake Technical Community College,
North Carolina.
"We are delighted that GEICO is providing scholarship
funds to recognize the future business leaders in Phi Theta Kappa," Risley
said. "This new scholarship will provide more financial assistance to
deserving students, and also indicates an increased level of respect and
confidence in the Phi Theta Kappa Experience."
The 2009 Leaders
of Promise Scholarship recipients are:
Jayne Berglund, Ellsworth
Community College, Iowa
Emily Brown, Blue Ridge Community
& Technical College, West Virginia
Deborah Campbell, East
Central College, Missouri
Zafer Ceto, Arkansas State University
Mountain Home, Arkansas
Chulsoon Chang, Rockland Community
College, New York
Thao Dao, Carl Albert State College, Oklahoma
Abdelkhalek
Elagamy, Henry Ford Community College, Michigan
Tarma Fontaine,
Central Piedmont Community College, North Carolina
Tommy
Garcia, Manchester Community College, Connecticut
Luke Gerst,
Kirkwood Community College, Iowa
Hanh Hoang, Community College
of Aurora, Colorado
Rachel Jehuda, Union County College, New
Jersey
Shawn Knapp, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana -
Kokomo, Indiana
Tiffany Knutson, Des Moines Area Community
College - Boone, Iowa
James Lamberth, Lone Star College-Kingwood,
Texas
Belinda Larche, Houston Community College, Texas
Dung
Le, San Jose City College, California
Linnea Manheim, Lincoln
Land Community College, Illinois
Robin Martin, Lord Fairfax
Community College, Virginia
Mwenya Mulenga, Parkland College,
Illinois
Bernardine Okyne, College of Coastal Georgia, Georgia
Eva
Roeder, Southwestern Illinois College, Illinois
Jessica
Schwalenberg, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, Wisconsin
Aubrie
Simpson, St. Johns River Community College, Florida
Zadrian
Smith, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Kevin Spears,
Illinois Central College, Illinois
Della Stabler, Southern
Union State Community College, Alabama
David Tantlinger,
Clark State Community College, Ohio
Carlos Tovias, Trinity
Valley Community College, Texas
Timothy Weathers, Northern
Virginia Community College, Virginia
Phi Theta Kappa Honor
Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor
society in 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.
