Excellence in education

By Staff
Feb. 12, 2003
Jeffrey Roberts of Quitman was selected to attend the National Young Leaders Conference in December.
He was chosen because of leadership potential and scholastic merit. Roberts was among 400 students from around the country invited to attend the conference.
Five Meridian students were elected to the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing in November.
Teresa O. Green and Catherine McNulty are undergraduate students and Rhonda Rawls Moore, Emmerll Rackley and Lisa A. Jenkins are graduate students at the University of Southern Mississippi.
They were selected through the Gamma Lambda Chapter because they demonstrate excellence in scholarship.
Requirements for membership are a 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale for undergraduates and a 3.5 scale for graduates.
They also must be in the upper 35 percent of the graduating class, have completed at least one-half of the nursing curriculum for undergraduates and one-quarter for graduates.
Five Meridian students were inducted in December into the Mississippi State University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi the nation's leading higher education in honor society.
New members are Kate M. Ellmo, a senior real estate and mortgage financing and banking double-major; Kenneth D. Hardy, a senior secondary education major; Jeremy R. Parker, a senior civil engineering major; Katie E. Pigford, a junior microbiology major; and Susan K. Sierra, a December graduate in chemical engineering.
Phi Kappa Phi membership is open to seniors at the top of their class. Graduate students, juniors and some sophomores whose scholastic achievements are at the highest levels also are eligible.
Belhaven College in Jackson named two Meridian students, Jeremiah Maeda and Jennifer Nanney, to its dean's list for the fall 2002 semester.
To qualify for the dean's list, students must be full-time with a semester grade point average between 3.4 and 3.99.