1954-1955 Yearbook

Alpha Honor Society - ROW ONE: Jane Sutherlin, Faye Paxson, Joan Nance, Jewell Ozbirn. ROW TWO: Neal Pryor, Yvonne Davis, J. D. Ewing, Bob Brown . ROW THREE: Paul Magee, Charles Pittman, Tommy Parish, Jack McNutt, Don Brown . NOT PICTURED: Ronald Bever, Joe Hacker, Dean Roper, Glenda Givens. High Scholarship Receives Recognition . • • In order to encourage and recognize scholarship among the students of Harding, the ALPHA HONOR SOCIETY was organized in the winter of 1936. Dr. R. R. Coons, then Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, took the lead in establishing the society. The twelve members elected to membership this spring bring the total membershi p to lZZ. To be eligible for membership a junior must have completed 80 semester hours with a scholarHonor Students Jane Sutherlin Tommy Parish 103 ship index of 3.70 and a senior must have completed 11Z hours with a level of 3.50. Not more than ten per cent of the junior class nor more than twelve and one-half per cent of the senior class are eligible. In addition to high scholarship, good moral character is a requirement for membership. The society presents a medal at Commencement to the senior with the highest four-year scholastic record.

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