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Jacqueline Shawver
  • Psychology
  • Frankfort, KY

Jacqueline Shawver Inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta

2013 May 1

Jacqueline Antoinette Shawver of Frankfort (40601) is one of 29 Eastern Kentucky University freshmen who were inducted into the National Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for First Year Students during a special ceremony on March 27.

Founded in the spring of 1924 at the University of Illinois by Dean Maria Leonard, Alpha Lambda Delta recognizes and encourages academic excellence among first-year students. Today, Alpha Lambda Delta has more than 250 chapters throughout the United States and more than 700,000 students have been initiated into membership since the first chapter was started more than 80 years ago.

Membership in Alpha Lambda Delta is open to full-time freshmen who earn a scholastic average of 3.5 or better at a four-year college or university.

Alpha Lambda Delta emphasizes that educated persons have a responsibility to "have tolerance in their dealings with all persons, generosity in giving to those in need, and insight into the feelings of others" says Dr. Glenda Earwood, Executive Director of the Society. Members are challenged to make a "meaningful contribution to society."

These honor students have taken an oath to continue to "maintain high scholarship and to use their education for the benefit of the community, the nation, and the world in which they live."

This year, EKU's chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta also inducted several EKU faculty and staff members as honorary members: President Doug Whitlock; Provost Janna Vice; Erin Barnett, associate director of First Year Courses; and Dr. Minh Nguyen, Chautauqua Lecture Coordinator and associate professor of philosophy.