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| News - Miami County News | |||
| Written by Robin Hixson | |||
| Friday, 26 December 2008 09:00 | |||
Fort Scott Community College conducted a ceremony Dec. 4 on the Miami County Campus in Paola to celebrate the charter of its new Phi Theta Kappa Chapter.  PTK, the official international honor society for two-year colleges, promotes scholarship, leadership, fellowship and service. Students who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher in more than 12 hours of study are invited to join. Ten MICO campus inductees participated in the ceremony as they became members of the Beta Rho Lambda Chapter of PTK. Others in attendance from the MICO campus included Associate Dean Buddy Jo Tanck and Beta Rho Lambda advisor Art Houser. Fort Scott Campus PTK members Kristin Smith and Matthew Brandt participated in the event along with Fort Scott PTK advisors DeeAnn VanLuyck and Harold Hicks. Ruth Randall, Kansas regional coordinator of Phi Theta Kappa, was the guest speaker. In her address, Randall spoke about the beginnings of PTK and what the organization will mean to the MICO campus. During the ceremony, the new members signed their chapter’s official charter. Beta Rho Lambda is the 29th Chartered PTK chapter in Kansas. PTK was founded in 1918, but its roots go back to Kappa Phi Omicron, established in 1910. There were eight PTK charter colleges in 1918. Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., has the last active chapter among those first eight, but PTK is now the largest honor society in American higher education with more than 2 million members and 1,200 chapters in the United States, its territories and seven other countries.
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