Harding's Arkansas Eta Chapter main· tained its recognition as one of the outstanding chapters of Alpha Chi, one of the major general honor scholarship societies. Nine Harding students presented numbers on the student pro· gram of the 1981 biennial National Con· vention in Nashville, TN, April 3·5. As this volume of the PeUt Jean went to press, several members were planning to present numbers at the 1982 convention of Region II hosted by Centenary College in Shreveport, LA, on March 25·27 . On November 4, sponsors Drs. Don England, Joseph E. Pryor, and Neale T. Pryor inducted 60 members and, on February 10, 48 members. On Novem· ber 16, the chapter sponsored an open session in the Heritage Auditorium on graduate study with Dr. Joel Anderson, a former member of the chapter and now Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, as guest speaker. To qualify for membership, a student was required to have earned a minimum of 24 hours at Harding and to have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.70 on 80·103 hours or a 3.50 GPA on 104 or more hours. Effective with the 1982 fall semester, the chapter raised the GPA for the first category to 3.75. The Arkansas Eta Chapter had its in· ception in the fall of 1935 when the Alpha Honor Society was organized as a local organization by Dr. R. R. Coons, chairman of the chemistry department. One of the five charter members was then junior Joe Pryor. Since he was the only male member, he was elected presi. dent. On March I, 1957, the local Alpha Honor SOCiety was installed as the Arkansas Eta Chapter of Alpha Chi, Chapter No. 41, and Pryor, by then cha irman of the chemistry department, was appointed official sponsor. Since the spring of 1958, the Arkansas Eta Chapter has annually had one or more delegates on the program of the annual convention. ~ AS PART of the Alpha Chi induction, Shawn Daggett lights the ceremonial candle while Dr. Joseph Pryor presides. Alpha Chi· 253
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