Sigma Kappa Delta, LBCC's English Honor Society, is more than you'd expect.
Besides honoring the academic achievements of it's members, Sigma Kappa Delta also takes part in quarterly group activities. They attend plays or films together and then discuss them over coffee or dinner, they read books over break and come back and discuss them after, or they have get togethers where they do English related activities, such as a group poem. "We'll get together for lunch and send a prompt around and everyone adds a line to it, and at the end we have a poem," explains Linda Spain, the clubs adviser. The group took part in last Mays Relay For Life at OSU, as well. SKD raised over $700 for the organization and they plan to take part again this year.
"In community college, people often come and go like ships in the night and don’t have places to get connected, so one of the purposes (of Sigma Kappa Delta), besides honoring scholar, is to get together and talk about things of similar interest," said Spain. While you do need a 3.4 GPA to get an invite to the English Honor Society, you do not have to be an English major. "Most members, in fact, are not English majors. They major in something else, but enjoy language," Spain said.
Besides honoring the academic achievements of it's members, Sigma Kappa Delta also takes part in quarterly group activities. They attend plays or films together and then discuss them over coffee or dinner, they read books over break and come back and discuss them after, or they have get togethers where they do English related activities, such as a group poem. "We'll get together for lunch and send a prompt around and everyone adds a line to it, and at the end we have a poem," explains Linda Spain, the clubs adviser. The group took part in last Mays Relay For Life at OSU, as well. SKD raised over $700 for the organization and they plan to take part again this year.
"In community college, people often come and go like ships in the night and don’t have places to get connected, so one of the purposes (of Sigma Kappa Delta), besides honoring scholar, is to get together and talk about things of similar interest," said Spain. While you do need a 3.4 GPA to get an invite to the English Honor Society, you do not have to be an English major. "Most members, in fact, are not English majors. They major in something else, but enjoy language," Spain said.
"I enjoy the camaraderie of the other members of SKD. We get together to discuss books we have read, attend plays, or just have lunches with one another. I love that although we are all very different people, we have common interests," said SKD member Mindi Hartzell Jones. Jones is one of 160 total students who have been inducted as lifelong members into the LBCC chapter, which was the first chapter in Oregon and started in 2007.
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AT A GLANCE
WHAT:
Sigma Kappa Delta, LBCC's English Honor Society
ADVISER:
Linda Spain
WHAT THEY DO:
LBCCs Welcome Day, OSU Relay For Life, Attend plays and films, Read and discuss books, Meet over lunch or coffee, Enjoy each others company!
HOW YOU CAN GET INVITED IN:
Attend LBCC for at least two terms, Take at least one English or Literature class and obtain at a least a B grade, Have an overall 3.4 GPA
INTERESTING FACT:
LBCC's chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta was started in 2007 and is the first and only chapter in Oregon!
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