LSUS inducts 44 into honor society
04/19/04

Forty-one students and three LSUS faculty members were initiated into the LSUS chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Sunday April 18th, 2004. The students included 17 juniors, 19 seniors, and five graduate students.

Dr. Cynthia Sisson, the chapter’s 2003-2004 president, said the primary goal of Phi Kappa Phi is “the recognition of superior scholarship in all disciplines - recognizing the best of the best across campus.”

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is America’s oldest and most selective honor society that recognizes excellence in all academic disciplines.

Initiates include: faculty Stephen C. Brennan, Ruth L. Ray and Deborah Shepherd; graduate students Nichole E. Bourgeois, Thomas Christopher Horton, Joni Lee Pelton, Lyndsey Hull Smith and Christianne Wojcik; seniors Martin T. Amundson, Tiffany Denise Bagley, Steven R. Bell, Sarah Martin Booth, Brandon Carl Brasseaux, Kristy L. Breedlove, Melissa D. Conrad, Chiara V. Dartez, Sabine Koerner-Cavel, Lauren Laderoot, Ava Rose Marchand, Keith A. McCain, Josh Neeson, Hiren I. Patel, Katherine C. Robbins, Kristina L. Sojka, Michelle Bradley Stephens, Tanita Marie Ward and Kristi Wilson, and juniors Nichole Marie Butler, Christi L. Cannon, Sharon C. Carson, Julianne Joan Christy, Stephen Culver, Kirk Grantham, Phillip R. Guin Jr., Allyson E. Hudson, Ashley Lynn Messina, Nikki Jo Mora, Audrey E. Norton, Hiren M. Patel, Luz Maria Sanchez Morales, Beth Shockley, Brian W. Sparks, Brittany Tarufelli, Christie Lynn Wilson.

The guest speaker for the initiation ceremony was Mrs. Jane Molloy, who retired in 1998 as Director of the YWCA of Northwest Louisiana. Her community involvement has included the Rotary Club of West Shreveport, Shreveport-Bossier Service Connection, The Shreveport Opera, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, the Human Relations Commission, the Northwest Louisiana Interfaith Pharmacy and United Way of Northwest LA. Her involvement in Rotary has taken her to a number of countries in Europe and to South Africa. She is currently leading the training of incoming club presidents and committee chairs. Jane was the first female Rotary District Governor in Louisiana in 2001-02.