WINONA LAKE - Twenty-six Grace College students were inducted in the Indiana Gamma chapter of Alpha Chi in a ceremony held on the Grace campus in McClain Auditorium Nov. 4.
The induction ceremony emphasized the ideals of Alpha Chi, as well as formally enrolling and honoring new members. Membership was limited to the top 8 percent of the junior and senior classes. The students inducted this year at Grace College had a minimum grade point average of 3.83.
The president of the Grace College Alpha Chi chapter for 2007-08 is Amanda Metzler. Faculty sponsors are Dr. Donald B. DeYoung, Dr. Richard A. Dilling, professor Joseph P. Lehmann and Dr. George F. Slaughter.
Alpha Chi is a co-educational national honor scholarship society dedicated to promoting academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students and to honoring students who achieve such distinction. An honor society as opposed to a recognition society, Alpha Chi predicates its membership upon accomplishments rather than mere interest or participation.
Its name derives from the initial letters in the Greek words meaning "truth" and "character."
As a general honor society, Alpha Chi admits students from all academic disciplines rather than from a single area of study. Affiliated since 1955 with the Association of College Honor Societies, Alpha Chi is the second oldest and second largest general honor society in the parent organization.
The motto of Alpha Chi is, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
