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Officers serving during the 2006 calendar year were, from left, Philip Merritt, Christina Dacey, Jocelyn Schmedes, Victoria Braddy, Tamara Tavares, and Tara Gergacs.

AASU Honor Society Inducts 39 New Members


(Savannah, GA-January 3, 2007) The Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society inducted 39 new members during a recent ceremony on the campus. Among the new inductees were AASU faculty members Christopher Baker and Helen Taggart, dean Raymond Greenlaw and staff member Melanie Mirande.

The undergraduate students who were inducted were: Brittany Anderson, James Benton, Kelly Ceballos, Amanda Daley, Sonja Edwards, Iris Frye, Kaitlen Fulp, Candice Godwin, Reese Goldman, Anne Greico, Thomas Hamlin, Charita Hardy, Megan Herbert, Jasmine Herron, Kimberly Hitchcock, Wendy Howard, Jamie Hubbard, James Jordan, Shawn Latta, Heather Lee, Lindsay Long, Kelly MacDonald, Sandra McMurray, Tiffany McVay, Leslie Moses, Diana O'Dell, Catherine Ponce, Lakeisha Shilo, Christopher Shuman, Tanya Smith, Tracey Thompson, Sarah Trawick, Beth Tuck, Cynthia Witherspoon, and Heather Woodard.

The society recognized charter members who served as officers during the past calendar year. Those honored were: Victoria Braddy (president), Tara Gergacs (external vice president), Tamara Tavares (internal vice president), Jocelyn Schmedes (secretary), Philip Merritt (treasurer), Tiffany Dodgen (faculty secretary) and Lynn Stover (faculty advisor).

Twenty undergraduates students and members of the faculty and staff chartered the AASU Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa in April 2006.

Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society, was founded in 1914 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA.

Currently, there are over 226,000 members representing 311 Circles of Omicron Delta Kappa in institutions of higher learning nationwide. Membership in the Society is a mark of highest distinction and honor. Membership is open only to junior and senior students who rank in the top 35 percent of their class, and faculty and staff. All applicants must demonstrate leadership in one of five areas: scholarship and academics, athletics, campus and community service, creative and performing arts, and journalism, mass media and speech.

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