Jackson, MS – Twenty college presidents/campus CEOs received 2012 Shirley B. Gordon Awards of Distinction at Phi Theta Kappa’s Annual Convention in Nashville, April 12-14.
College presidents and campus CEOs are selected for this award on the basis of outstanding efforts given toward promoting the goals of Phi Theta Kappa. The award is named for the late Dr. Shirley B. Gordon, Phi Theta Kappa’s longest serving Board of Directors Chair and President Emeritus of Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington. Dr. Gordon was named Phi Theta Kappa’s Most Distinguished College President in 1984.
The recipients of the Shirley B. Gordon Awards of Distinction for 2012 are:
Dr. MaryLou Apple
Motlow State Community College
Lynchburg, Tennessee
Dr. Glenn Boyce
Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi
Dr. Conway Jeffress
Schoolcraft College
Livonia, Michigan
Dr. Gail Carberry
Quinsigamond Community College
Worcester, Massachusetts
Dr. David Cole
Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi
Dr. Patricia Dolly
Oakland Community College
Auburn Hills, Michigan
Dr. Myrtle Dorsey
St. Louis Community College
St. Louis, Missouri
Dr. Richard Helton
Vincennes University
Vincennes, Indiana
Dr. Hal Higdon
Ozarks Technical Community College
Springfield, Missouri
Dr. Larry Lundblad
Central Lakes College
Brainerd, Minnesota
Dr. Gary McGaha
Atlanta Metropolitan College
Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Judy Merritt
Jefferson State Community College
Birmingham, Alabama
Dr. James Walton
Centralia College
Centralia, Washington
Dr. Charles Mojock
Lake-Sumter Community College
Leesburg, Florida
Dr. Maureen Murphy
San Jacinto College
Houston, Texas
Dr. Shouan Pan
Mesa Community College
Mesa, Arizona
Dr. Greg Rutherford
York Technical College
Rock Hill, South Carolina
Dr. Randall VanWagoner
Mohawk Valley
Community College
Utica, New York
Dr. John Walstrum
Clover Park Technical College
Lakewood, Washington
Dr. Peter Mora
Atlantic Cape Community College
Mays Landing, New Jersey
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,280 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, Peru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. More than 2.5 million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 135,000 students inducted annually.