{"id":2186,"date":"2020-10-22T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2020-10-22T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:47:59","slug":"ssc-honor-society-inducts-new-members-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-honor-society-inducts-new-members-4\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Honor Society Inducts New Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine Seminole State College students were inducted into the Alpha Theta Nu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges on Oct. 20.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p>The induction ceremony was conducted virtually, utilizing Zoom video conference software.<\/p>\n<p>Students are selected based on their scholarship, leadership and commitment to community. The chapter provides programs, organizes activities and encourages participation in community service projects.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements for membership in the honor society include: enrollment at an accredited two-year college with a Phi Theta Kappa chapter and an overall GPA of 3.5 with a minimum of 12 credit hours completed.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-2048x1154.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PTK-Fall-2020-788x444.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>A group of 29 Seminole State College students were inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society during a virtual ceremony on Oct. 20.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<p>SSC President Lana Reynolds served as the event\u2019s guest speaker. She became the first female president of Seminole State College in 2017 and has held several administrative roles at the College in the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently the Chair of Leadership Oklahoma and a past President of the Seminole Chamber of Commerce and the Seminole Rotary Club. She was selected as Seminole\u2019s \u201cCitizen of the Year\u201d in 2008 and was named by the Journal Record as one of \u201c50 Women Making a Difference\u201d in the state of Oklahoma in 2000, 2012 and 2013 \u2013 bringing her into the \u201cCircle of<\/p>\n<p>Excellence\u201d for her three-time selection. In November 2017, she received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Oklahoma Christian University.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds has served as Chair of the Oklahoma State Regents Communicators Council and is a past President of the Oklahoma College Public Relations Association.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Business Jeff Cheng and Assistant Professor of Social Sciences Sam Rivera, who serve as the chapter\u2019s current advisers, were also present at the induction.<\/p>\n<p>SSC students inducted at the ceremony (arranged by hometown) were:<\/p>\n<p>Ada: Laney Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Del City: Ryan Sanders<\/p>\n<p>Earlsboro: Jessica Waddell<\/p>\n<p>Edmond: Evy Aud<\/p>\n<p>Holdenville: Steven Horvatt<\/p>\n<p>Lexington: Kaitlyn Matlock<\/p>\n<p>Macomb: Aden Bruno<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City: Grant Murphey<\/p>\n<p>Owasso: Cynthia Armas<\/p>\n<p>Prague: Isaiah Camren<\/p>\n<p>Seminole: Jake McRay, Jaxen McRay, Donna Rupe, Tatum Shelton and Marissa Vega<\/p>\n<p>Shawnee: Tamrin Davis, Amy Hailey, Brittany Harwell, Michelle Mayfield, Caleb Nahmahpeah and Harley Gregory<\/p>\n<p>Stroud: Samantha Beavers<\/p>\n<p>Tecumseh: Lindakay Berry, Bethany Randall, Emily Ridley and McKayla Wright<\/p>\n<p>Wetumka: Wyatt Pack<\/p>\n<p>Wewoka: Jami Barkhimer and Emma Norman<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine Seminole State College students were inducted into the Alpha Theta Nu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-campuslife","category-news","tag-oct-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}