WINONA LAKE - Seven Grace College students, along with sponsor Professor Joseph Lehmann, attended the 2010 Super-Regional Convention of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society in Little Rock, Ark., March 25-27.
Participating in the convention were students Jeremy Maurer, president of the Grace chapter of Alpha Chi; Melissa Witwer, vice president; Darci Long, secretary; Jennifer Benner; Sarah Rice; Samuel Roth; and Bailey Standish.
Five of these students made presentations at the conference:
- Benner, junior, English major: "The House on Weatherby Lane" (creative writing)
- Maurer, seminary student and 2009 graduate, general science major: "A Case of 'Missing' Decay: A Statistical Analysis of Anomalous C-14 in 'Ancient' Carbon Samples"
- Rice, junior, history major: "Working the Streets: The Forgotten Children of the Industrial Revolution"
- Roth, senior, math major: "Making Infinite Series Easier"
- Standish, communications major (graduated December 2009): "The Man Behind the Founding Fathers: An Analysis of the Life and Words of Elias Boudinot"Roth received one of three $100 awards given for the best presentation by a student in Region V. Additionally, at the Region V business meeting conducted at the convention, Lehmann was elected to serve a two-year term as vice president of Region V, which includes schools in the eastern Midwest (West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota).
In the annual Alpha Chi scholarship competition, Rice was awarded a $750 undergraduate scholarship as well as a $1,500 Alfred H. Nolle undergraduate scholarship from the National Council of Alpha Chi. Rice is one of only 10 students to receive the Nolle scholarship each year.
Alpha Chi is a national college honor society that admits students from all academic disciplines, limiting membership to the top 10 percent of an institution's juniors, seniors and graduate students. Alpha Chi has active chapters at 300 institutions in almost every state and Puerto Rico, registering approximately 11,000 new members each year.
