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K-State Today

November 17, 2020

Modern languages students inducted into French honor society

Submitted by Melinda Cro

The modern languages department celebrated the recent induction of nine students into the K-State chapter of the French honor society Pi Delta Phi on Nov. 13. Congratulations to the following new members on their achievements in French: 

  • Kendra Noelle Marstall
  • Angela Lynne Kay
  • Matthew Carl Swords
  • Kaylie Ann McLaughlin
  • Elizabeth Mae Hansen
  • Forrest G Chumley
  • Sara E Glidewell
  • Mason Savahn East
  • Kristen Nicole Tompkins

Pi Delta Phi is the national French honor society for undergraduate and graduate students at accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States. The highest academic honor in the field of French and the oldest academic honor society for a modern foreign language in the United States, Pi Delta Phi was founded as a departmental honor society at the University of California, Berkeley in 1906. The society was nationalized when the Beta Chapter was established at the University of Southern California in 1925. The society was officially endorsed by the American Association of Teachers of French as the only collegiate French honor society in 1949.

The purpose of the society is to recognize outstanding scholarship in the French language and Francophone literatures, to increase the knowledge and appreciation of Americans for the cultural contributions of the French-speaking world, and to stimulate and to encourage French and Francophone cultural activities.