Phi Beta Kappa inducts new members

Eighteen Oklahoma State University undergraduate students were inducted as members of Phi Beta Kappa, one of the most distinguished academic honor societies in America, during a ceremony on May 9 at Old Central.

The chapter initiated Blaine Greteman as its first alumni member among the new members. Greteman, OSU’s only recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, delivered an address titled “The American Scholar 2.0” at the ceremony.  Greteman, from Hydro, Okla., teaches at the University of Iowa.          

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society in the United States and was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. There are 280 chapters at American colleges with 61 active alumni associations.

New Phi Beta Kappa members from OSU include:

Oklahoma

Edmond

Michelle Danser, from Edmond, Okla., is a communication sciences and disorders major.

Shelby Landes, from Edmond, Okla., is a communication sciences and disorders and Spanish double major.

Calvin Warner, from Edmond, Okla., is a philosophy and Spanish double major.

Enid

Walter Jackson III, from Enid, Okla., is a history major.

Ian Maloney, from Enid, Okla., is a microbiology/cell and molecular biology major.

Henryetta

Chelsea Artussee, from Henryetta, Okla., is a history and animal science double major.

Lawton

Dylan Hames, from Lawton, Okla., is an architecture and Spanish double major.

Okarche

Alex Watkins, from Okarche, Okla., is an economics major.

Oklahoma City

Baylee Butler, from Oklahoma City, is a psychology and political science double major.

Mackenzie Smith, from Oklahoma City, is a history major.

Stillwater

Amanda Berry, from Stillwater, is a mathematics major.

Martha Gipson, from Stillwater, Okla., is a statistics and mathematics double major.

Kathryn Shrader, from Stilllwater, Okla., is an English and German double major.

Paige Wikle, from Stillwater, Okla., is a psychology major.

Tulsa

Lauren Foley, from Tulsa, Okla., is a zoology major.

Shelby James, from Tulsa, Okla., is an accounting and Spanish double major.

Kansas

Wichita

Anna Gunther, from Wichita, Kan., is a mathematics and economics double major.

Texas

Euless

Clara Telford, from Euless, Texas, is a physiology major.

For more information, visit the chapter’s website at phibetakappa.okstate.edu. ​