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Phi Kappa Phi announces officers
5:40 p.m., Dec. 11, 2006--The University of Delaware chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest and largest national honorary society in the nation whose goal is to recognize and promote superior scholarship in all academic disciplines, has selected its 2006-07 chapter officers. They are: president, Matthew J. Robinson, associate professor, health, nutrition, and exercise sciences, and director of the Sport Management Program; president-elect, Russell E. Murray Jr., associate chairperson, music, and associate professor, Women's Studies; vice president, William Farquhar, assistant professor, health, nutrition, and exercise sciences; secretary, Susan T. Serra, coordinator, Office of Service Learning; treasurer, U. Carl Toensmeyer, professor, food and resource economics, and professor, Agriculture Experiment Station; and public relations officer, Susan Brynteson, May Morris Director of Libraries. The officers met on Nov. 15 to discuss an invitation from the national Phi Kappa Phi office to attend the Phi Kappa Phi Triennial Conference slated for Aug. 9-11 in Orlando, Fla., where the University of Delaware chapter will be recognized for celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2005. Members in the local chapter are nominated and elected annually. Phi Kappa Phi has chapters on nearly 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Since 1979, its headquarters have been at French House at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., which it has now outgrown resulting in the recent purchase of its own building at LSU which it will move into this month. Both the national Phi Kappa Phi and the University of Delaware chapter sponsor scholarships and awards. |
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