Alpha Lambda Delta Initiates at UMC

Twenty-eight students attending the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) accepted membership and were initiated in National Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for First Year Students on Monday, March 24.  Ceremonies were held in Kiehle Auditorium on the UMC campus that evening.  The students inducted represent the inaugural class of Alpha Lambda Delta at UMC.

Front Row (L to R): Jan Vandever, Alpha Lambda Delta Official, DeAnn Ebert, Melissa Alland, Heidi Sperling, Kyle Page, Sara Krippner, Judy Maki, Kami Mattson, Adviser, and Jonathan Hovda, Alpha Lambda Delta Official,
Second Row: James Thomasson, Faculty Adviser, Jennifer Jacobs, Heather Sperling, Priscilla Dahlen, Benjamin Aho, Bernardina Arias, and Donald Sargeant, UMC Chancellor
Third Row: Amber Hoyhtya, Amy Foster, Nathan Hines, John Rader, Michael Dockter, and Douglas Knowlton, UMC Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Forth Row: Sonja Hathaway, Michelle Leonard, Lacey Hayenga, Christina Carlson, Luke Wittkop, Jonathan Gorentz, and Jonas Abrams

Founded in the spring of 1924 at the University of Illinois, Alpha Lambda Delta is a national honor society that recognizes and encourages academic excellence among first year students.  Today, Alpha Lambda Delta has over 230 chapters throughout the nation and offers over $100,000 in scholarships to its members.

Membership in Alpha Lambda Delta is open to full-time freshmen students who earn a scholastic grade point average of 3.5 or better at a four-year college or university.  Once initiated, students are lifetime members and may take part in the chapter’s activities throughout their college career.

Alpha Lambda Delta emphasizes that educated persons have a responsibility to “have tolerance in dealings with all persons, generosity in giving to those in need, and insight into the feelings of others.”  Members are challenged to make a “meaningful contribution to society” and, through their chapters, engage in community service projects as well as campus service activities.

During the ceremony, the newly inducted UMC students took an oath to continue to “maintain high scholarship and to use my education for the benefit of my community, my nation, and the world in which we live.”

Pictured above are (back row): Kami Mattson, Advisor; James Thomasson, Faculty Advisor; Don Sargeant, UMC Chancellor; Doug Knowlton, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; (front row): Jan Vandever ALD Installing Faculty Officer from South Dakota State University; Jonathan Hovda, ALD Installing Student Officer from UND; ALD Chapter President DeAnn Ebert; Heidi Sperling, Secretary; Melissa Alland, Vice President; Kyle Page, Treasurer; Sara Krippner, CSA Rep; and Judy Maki, Webmaster. 

For more information about Alpha Lambda Delta, visit the national website www.mercer.edu/ald.

Those students inducted included:

 

Posted  03/26/2003
Contact: Andrew Svec, 218-281-8435

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