12 students inducted into national honor society



Alpha Chi inductee Elizabeth Hanson is congratulated by assistant professor of history
Blake Slonecker, left, and group faculty advisor Scott Searcy during a recent
ceremony at Waldorf.


A group of Waldorf College students joined a prestigious academic group during Homecoming Weekend.

Twelve juniors and seniors were inducted into the Alpha Chi Honor Society, a national college honor society that admits students from all academic disciplines. Membership is limited to the top 10 percent of an institution's juniors, seniors and graduate students.

“Being inducted as a member of Alpha Chi is a great honor. It represents years of hard work and dedication to learning,” said Megan Dobberstein, a junior inductee who is studying elementary education. “However, as our speaker noted, it is far more than just an honor. It is a challenge.”

The challenge, Dobberstein said, is to continue the hard work and dedication every day. “It does not stop here.”

Dobberstein, who would like to teach in a small town in Iowa or Minnesota, said it was an honor to join the group alongside her peers and with her supportive family in attendance.

Other Waldorf students inducted on Sunday include Jessica L. Aakre, Jonathan R. Aguilar, Chanel A. Childs, April E. DeVries, Laura Jean Follmann, Elizabeth Kay Hanson, Troy D. Hobscheidt, Tiffany Thoa McNelly, Amy Elizabeth Nelson, Marit K. Rheinheimer and Lauren C. Trembath-Neuberger.


Suzanne Falck-Yi, an English professor, and Scott Searcy, a mathematics professor, are the faculty advisers for Alpha Chi.

“I’m very proud of their academic achievements,” Falck-Yi said of the group.

The induction ceremony has been the last event of Homecoming for the past several years. During the formal ceremony, new inductees lit a candle from the candle of knowledge, repeated the Alpha Chi pledge and signed their names in the official Alpha Chi book.

There are several benefits to being an Alpha Chi member, including qualifying for scholarships. Members also nominate instructors for professor of the year awards that students vote on. The award is presented in the spring at Waldorf.
Students also plan service projects. Last year, Waldorf’s Alpha Chi chapter held a bake sale to benefit Kids Against Hunger, a local effort to collect food for hungry people around the world.

For more information, visit www.alphachihonor.org/