2008 Woodie Awards
Kassing to win award at banquet
Quang Do
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: News
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A national honor society that celebrates academic discipline is scheduled to induct 121 new members tomorrow in a private ceremony that will include 115 San Jose State University students and five SJSU faculty members - including one from Evergreen Valley College in San Jose.
The society, called Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and largest in the country that gives its members a lifelong passport to a network of global, academic and professional opportunities, according to the society's Web site.
Friday's reception is invitation only and "it's quite an honor to receive the invitation, even," said Gus Lease, president of the honor society's SJSU chapter and lecturer of history in music.
The highest award that a student can receive is a $2,000 chapter scholarship, Lease said, which will go to Tingting Xu, a transfer student from De Anza College majoring in history.
"Second semester junior and she got a 4.0," Lease said. "That's pretty good."
Lease said that seniors have to meet a 3.5 grade point average in order to be considered, and a 3.65 for juniors to be a part of Phi Kappa Phi.
Stacy Spence, also a junior majoring in history, said she has three history classes with Xu, and that "she always sits in the front row with her friend," Lindsay Lutman, Spence said.
Students, who were selected for the honor society, will receive a certificate, Lease said, and a pin that indicates their membership.
"It's really saying, 'You did a wonderful job and we want to honor you,'" Lease said.
SJSU was the 67th chapter to be invited to join Phi Kappa Phi, Lease said, which today has approximately 300 branches of administrations throughout the United States.
Lease said he has a certificate that proclaims SJSU as a part of the honor society since 1953.
Friday's induction ceremony will honor university President Don Kassing in his final year at SJSU with a distinguished service award, Lease said.
"For all the wonderful things he's done on this campus," Lease said, "that man has just done so much and he was so instrumental in the library and especially the dorms."
The society, called Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and largest in the country that gives its members a lifelong passport to a network of global, academic and professional opportunities, according to the society's Web site.
Friday's reception is invitation only and "it's quite an honor to receive the invitation, even," said Gus Lease, president of the honor society's SJSU chapter and lecturer of history in music.
The highest award that a student can receive is a $2,000 chapter scholarship, Lease said, which will go to Tingting Xu, a transfer student from De Anza College majoring in history.
"Second semester junior and she got a 4.0," Lease said. "That's pretty good."
Lease said that seniors have to meet a 3.5 grade point average in order to be considered, and a 3.65 for juniors to be a part of Phi Kappa Phi.
Stacy Spence, also a junior majoring in history, said she has three history classes with Xu, and that "she always sits in the front row with her friend," Lindsay Lutman, Spence said.
Students, who were selected for the honor society, will receive a certificate, Lease said, and a pin that indicates their membership.
"It's really saying, 'You did a wonderful job and we want to honor you,'" Lease said.
SJSU was the 67th chapter to be invited to join Phi Kappa Phi, Lease said, which today has approximately 300 branches of administrations throughout the United States.
Lease said he has a certificate that proclaims SJSU as a part of the honor society since 1953.
Friday's induction ceremony will honor university President Don Kassing in his final year at SJSU with a distinguished service award, Lease said.
"For all the wonderful things he's done on this campus," Lease said, "that man has just done so much and he was so instrumental in the library and especially the dorms."
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