Pi Gamma Psi Pi Gamma Psi. Front row: Shows, Griffin, Green, Joynes. Second row: Olree, White, Holt, Bray, Harlow, Perry, White. Third row: Lovegrove, McAfee, Collins, Sipfle, Valier, Taylor, Curry, McGee, Stanley. Fourth row: Boatwright, Hood, Moore, Rosier, Griffith, Gill, Harper, Jones, McAlister, Brown, Hurley. Back row: Drulman , Degnan, Thomas, Cohn, Rose, Vannatta, Reddick, Sproule, Sherrill , Frost, Duncan, Loe, Judd . - photo by Bill Tripp. i Gamma Psi, a national society of accounting majors boasted an active chapter at Harding. With well over 100 members, Pi Gamma Psi was one of Harding's biggest occupational clubs available in the business department. The main purpose of Pi Gamma Psi was to inform members of career opportunities available to accounting majors. Several guest speakers from some of the nations largest accounting firms spoke each semester at monthly Pi Gamma Psi lectures. Senior John Griffith, a three year member from Forrest City, AR, said, "The lectures let you know what the real accounting world is actually like. It's good to get away from the books and listen to a real life accountant tell you what the job is like day in and day out." Ray Duwe, a senior accounting major from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, had this to say about the club: " Pi Gamma Psi is more than just a resume reference; it provides valuable information for the accounting majors at Harding. It has helped to solidify my confidence in accounting as a probable career choice." A major stride in the achievements of the Pre-Med Club was the organization of "MCATters Anonymous," the name given to a program dsigned to help pre-med majors who had not yet taken the Medical College Admission Test, necessary for admission to any medical school. Under the direction of Scott Ballinger, president, MCATters was composed of upperlevel and younger pre-med students. The upperclassmen presented separate lectures in a series on topics that ranged from organic chemistry to vertebrate morphology to physics, hoping to better prepare the newer students through sharing their own knowledge and experience and to increase the overall scores of Harding students on the MCAT. Throughout the year, the club hosted guest lecturers, professionals who discussed their specialty areas in the medical field, many of whom were resident Searcy doctors. One featured speaker, however, was Martha Bush from Arkadelphia, AR, who presented a speech designed especially for the women pre-med students, focusing on the challenge of the dual role as mother and doctor. Our main goal was to establish a workable exchange of information, so that students within the department could gain from the experiences of others who had been in the field longer, whether that meant hearing from doctors in the profession or students who had begun the application process," stated Ballinger. - Steve Townsdin and Sheila Underwood 114 Pre Med Club Pi Gamma Psi I Med school bound. Rich Waggoner, a senior from Petersburg, IN, looks over an experiment which is being supervised by Dr. Ed Wilson. Waggoner was a member of the Pre-Med Club. The club provided members with an opportunity to meet doctors and see what lies ahead for them in the medical profession . - photo by Bill Tripp. Pre-Med Club Pre Med Club. Front row: Wilson, Waggoner, Barden, Ballinger, Hobbs, Edmunson, Sullivan, Lacy, Murray, England. Back row: Toby, Taylor, Duvall, Corbin , Green, Browning, Hobbs. - photo by Bill Tripp.
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