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Dalton State College recently inducted twenty two students into its newly-formed Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society chapter during a ceremony at The James E. Brown Center.
Sigma Beta Delta, a business honor society for institutions with regional accreditation, has more than 34,000 members in 250 chapters located in 46 states and on two continents. The Dalton State chapter was formally installed in late February, and its first members were inducted in early April.
“The purpose of Sigma Beta Delta is to encourage and recognize scholarship and accomplishment among business students and to encourage and promote aspirations toward personal and professional involvement,” says Dr. Donna Mayo, Chair of the Division of Business Administration and an honorary member of the College’s chapter.
During the Induction Ceremony, Jim Bethel, President of J & J Industries and Chairman of the Carpet and Rug Institute, delivered the keynote address and David Elrod, Director of the Dalton State College Foundation, congratulated the business students on their achievements.
In order to be inducted into Sigma Beta Delta, a student must be a junior or senior enrolled in a Business Administration bachelor’s degree program and must rank in the upper 20 percent of their class at the time of invitation to membership.
Chapter members are inducted into membership following completion of at least one-half of the degree program in which they are enrolled. Those programs include the Bachelor of Business Administration in Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing Systems, or Operations Production Management and the Bachelor of Applied Science in Technology Management.
“We are delighted to have such a fine group of students as the initial inductees into our new chapter,” Mayo says. “The establishment of a Sigma Beta Delta chapter at Dalton State will provide our faculty with an opportunity to confer international recognition on our students for their outstanding academic achievements in the school of business.”
In addition to the students, several faculty members were inducted into the honorary society including Dr. Mayo; Dr. Marilyn Helms, DSC Chapter President; Ms. Della Sampson, DSC Chapter Vice President; Dr. Larry Johnson, DSC Chapter Treasurer; and Dr. Joe Baxter, senior member of the Division of Business Administration.
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Pictured from Catoosa County are James Abney and Michael Hullender
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Pictured from Murray County are Cynthia Ellis and Brandon Crowley
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Pictured from Walker County are Lynne Thurman and Dennis Rhea
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Students from Whitfield County who were inducted into Sigma Beta Delta
include:
(front row, left to right) Melissa Garcia, Stephanie Poteet, Gabriela
Torres, Carolyn Styles, and Lorie Stennett; (back row) Monica Gambrell,
Jenna Caylor, Kimberly Park, Tamra Wortman and Joseph Weatherford
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