Business Honor Society Inducts New Members
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| Chelsea Ann Benich, a junior accounting
major from El Campo, receives congratulations from College
of Business Administration Associate Dean Leroy Ashorn,
for receiving a $1,000 Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship. Also
pictured is R. Dean Lewis, dean of the College of Business
Administration and president of the local Beta Gamma Sigma
chapter. |
Beta Gamma Sigma, an international business honor society
which was established in 1913 to honor academic achievement
in business, inducted 52 Sam Houston State University students
and two professors into the James E. Gilmore Chapter of the
organization on April 14.
Roland Hendricks, a 1980 SHSU accounting graduate who is currently
the site controller for Texas Operations of The Dow Chemical
Company, was the speaker for the event. He was inducted as
an honorary member of Beta Sigma Gamma.
“He is on our advisory board and he comes and interviews
for Dow,” said Elsie Ameen, secretary-treasurer of Beta
Gamma Sigma and organizer for the event. “He’s
been real active with Sam Houston since he graduated almost
25 years ago.”
Ameen added that SHSU students from Belize, Egypt, Jordan,
Malaysia, and South Africa were among those inducted.
Faculty members who are not Beta Gamma Sigma members are invited
to join upon being awarded tenure. Two faculty members from
the Department of Economics and International Business, Ed
Blackburne III and Don Freeman, were also inducted during
the ceremony.
Masters students are required to be in the top 20 percent
of their class. The inductees are: Belal AbuHijleh, Crystal
Bajer, Kirstin E. Blan, Timothy Justin Briggs, Ariel D. Carmona,
Gabi Eissa, Andrew Leon Ferguson and Phillipa Cecilia Herrera.
Also, April Holland-Mullins, Jessica Dawn Jaenicke, Chitra
Narayanasamy, Anna Nadine Rodriguez, Dale Donald Schoening,
Patricia Tiernan Sendelbach, Drew Timberlake and William Logan
Wigle.
Seniors must be in the top 10 percent to join. This year’s
senior inductees are: Angela Sheree Allen, Emily Jane Bates.
Terrie Bruning, Andrea Marie Delpha, Kyle Thomas Fricke, Julia
Audrian Guthrie, Denise L. Isaac, Dave Michael Jimenez, David
Joseph Lutz, Timothy Michael Magee, II, Lorena Yvette Martinez,
Kenneth Michael Oaks and Jurgen Walter Oosthuizen.
Other senior inductees include: Jonathan James Palermo, Brent
Ryan Pfeffer, Romita Puri, Joanna B. Ralston, Sara Marie Robison,
Rhonda Roethele, Aaron Joseph Ruchti, Mandie Dee Sanchez,
Kellan Shaw, Amanda Marie Sheedy, Kristen Rochelle Smith,
Carol Spradlin, Sherry Lynn Stevens, Jaime Nicole Wetuski
and Robert Eric Zepeda.
Juniors must be in the top seven percent of their class. The
inductees include: Chelsea Anne Benich, Justin Hill, Danielle
Denise Malone, Eric Robert Neckel, Amanda Kay Royer, Stephanie
Lauran Trachier, Casey Delayne Tucker and Kathryn Wogen.
Beta Gamma Sigma is part of the Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business. It expanded accreditation in 1995 to
countries outside of the U.S. and Canada.
“It’s an international organization, just for
colleges of business. They have criteria they look at when
offering accreditation,” said Ameen. This includes the
college’s student-teacher ratio, resources, faculty
research, and other factors.
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Media Contact: Kelly Jakubowski
May 2, 2005
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