KQ
Kristen Q.
  • Class of 2016
  • Indianapolis, IN

Kristen Quimby Recognized at Wittenberg's 2015 Honors Convocation

2015 Apr 16

Concluding a day-long Celebration of the Liberal Arts at Wittenberg University, the campus community celebrated the achievements of students and faculty members at the annual Honors Convocation, Friday, April 10, in Weaver Chapel. The faculty commemorated the occasion in full academic regalia as the university recognized high achievement of students and faculty members in academic and co-curricular activities.

Kristen Quimby of Noblesville, IN, was recognized as a Presidential Scholar. Named for each of Wittenberg’s former 13 presidents, the Presidential Scholars are the members of the junior class who have maintained the highest academic standing in their class through the preceding five semesters at Wittenberg. She was inducted into Sigma Delta Pi. Founded in 1914, Sigma Delta Pi is a national honors society devoted to students of Spanish in four-year colleges and universities. The organization is the largest foreign language honor society accredited by the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), the nation’s only governing body of its kind. Quimby was also inducted into Mortar Board. Mortar Board is a national senior honorary recognizing scholarship, leadership and service. Candidates must have a 3.3 grade point average and excel in both curricular and cocurricular leadership and service to the Wittenberg community. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious of the national honor societies. Wittenberg’s chapter, Omicron of Ohio, was established in 1992. Phi Beta Kappa exists to give recognition to students who have achieved high academic distinction at Wittenberg. Phi Beta Kappa stresses the importance of the liberal arts and sciences, and elects to membership only those students who have demonstrated their awareness of the liberal arts tradition by building programs broad in scope yet sufficiently concentrated to ensure comprehensive knowledge in one or more disciplines. Students are normally elected as seniors or, in special cases, as juniors. They must be majoring in one of the liberal arts or sciences, have a high grade point average, have taken a variety of courses across the liberal arts spectrum, and have demonstrated a knowledge of mathematics and a foreign language appropriate to a liberal arts education. Quimby received an award from the Political Science Department. The Jeffrey Y. Mao Alumni Award in Political Science is given to junior political science majors in recognition of outstanding scholarship, service to the university and promise of significant contributions to society.