Students Honored for Scholarship
Wilmington College initiated its newest members of the Green Key Honor Society Sunday (April 23) at the 43rd annual Student Honors Convocation.
"We are so very proud of the accomplishments of our students, and we honor them today," said Interim President Corey Cockerill, noting these students are "among the best and brightest."
PICTURED: Emily Kelly shows her Green Key certificate to friends and family members.
The society was organized in 1951 to recognize superior academic achievement by Wilmington students. Seniors are eligible for membership in Green Key upon completion of 90 semester hours with a minimum grade point average of 3.50. Transfer students are eligible for membership after completing a minimum of 32 Wilmington College hours and meeting the hour and GPA requirements.
Wynn Alexander, interim vice president for academic affairs, noted that many students at the Honors Convocation were inducted into Green Key previously and were so recognized.
In the original initiation ceremony, the founders of the Green Key chapter urged the initiates to remember that their task was one of leading by example so that future generations would recognize that it was through the life of the mind that society would be improved. They concluded the ceremony by welcoming the initiates to Green Key by saying, and I quote, “with the same gladness which was felt by the College in having you become a student.”
The inductees were presented with certificates and medallions, the latter of which should be worn at Commencement.
Green Key members are: Kwame Acheampong, Kaitlin R. Armstrong, Hannah Armstrong, Tylar Bailey, Allison Beatty, Shelby Blake, Elijah Brock, Shannon Browning, Shadrach J. Brausch, Sophie Buisson, Sarah C. Bumps, Danielle Bustle, Julia Bystrom, Anna M. Bzovi, Mackenzie Campbell, Skylar B. Carmichael, Lindsay Carter, Betty Caudill, Kiana Chumley, Cailee Croy, Noah Dado, Izabelle Daugherty, Sadie Devore, Trafford W. Dunn, Heidi N. Edens, Matthew Eggenspiller, Alec S. Elam, Kari R. Ellison, Anna Endsley, Logan Frazier, Haley Fulton, Hannah E. Gaines, Lauren Taylor Galloway, Dylan J. Gau, Alexis N. Grice, Macie Hamilton, Damien R. Harris, Tiara Harris, Allison J. Houseman, Bailey Hypes, Anna R. Irwin, Jaymirr T. Johnson, Jake C. Jubach, Emily Kelly, Emily Kestermann, Kearsten L. Kirby, James Kluth III, Courtney E. Luderman, Alexandria Lusk, Savannah F. Manson, Elizabeth Matthews, Sharon R. McFall, Ema Menges, Courtney M. Michalak, Morgan Miller, Casey Miller, Peyton M. Mullins, Angie Muse, Wesley Nye, Birdy Orebaugh, Victoria Pontious, Allison K. Puckett, Brianna Purvis, Jen Richards, George M. Rickett, Macie M. Riley, Samantha F. Riggan, Abigail E. Rodefer, Emily Rudd, Adrian M. Salomone, Hanna M. Satterfield, Zachary L. Schecter, Megan Schwendeman, Madison K. Scott, Rebecca E. Simonji, Ella Smith, Jordan F. Snarr, Adelyn Joy Stalder, Alexis L. Stringfellow, Alyssa Storer, Gabriel Swaisgood, Nico E. Swepston, Sierra A. Szuhay, Karley Taylor, Paige Teeters, Mckenzie Thacker, Chloee Thomas, Sofia Thomas, Milena K. Wahl, Bryanna M. Warner, Collin Webber, Grace Williams and Kayla L. Wyse.