LSUS inducts 19 into business honor society
04/13/04

Only a select few are called “The Best in Business,” and 19 LSUS College of Business Administration students earned the title this year. A graduate student, eight seniors and 10 juniors – have been inducted into the LSUS chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society serving business programs accredited by AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) International.

The inductees are: graduate student Earl Wayne Hogue; seniors Tiffany Denise Bagley, Cynthia Ann Beaty, Thomas Lee Brantley, David Gerard Garavaglia, Aaron Bradley Hunter, Katherine C. Robbins, Michelle Bradley Stephens and Jeffrey Glenn Whitton; and juniors Sharon Cortney Carson, Holly D. Cope, Helen Ruth Estess, Kimberley Ann Holder, Audrey Evail Norton, Hiren M. Patel, Robert William Roe, Gerald Stanley Smolenski Jr., Erin Colleen Stewart and Brittany Lynn Tarufelli,

Robbins is also the recipient of a $1,000 Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship.

Nearly 300,000 students receive bachelor’s or master’s degrees in business nationwide each year, but only about 16,000 are elected to lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma. To be eligible for invitation to membership, juniors must rank in the top 7 percent of their class, seniors in the top 10 percent of their class and master’s degree candidates must rank in the top 20 percent of their programs at AACSB-accredited schools.

Beta Gamma Sigma was founded as a national organization in 1913. Its mission is to encourage and honor academic achievement and personal excellence in the study and practice of business. The society fosters in its members an enduring commitment to its principles and values: honor and integrity, pursuit of wisdom and earnestness.