Morris College - Hornet Yearbook (Sumter, SC)

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Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society Inducts Five New Members L to R — Dr. L. C. Richardson. Loletha Rccd. Nancy Goodwin. Glenda Howard, Bcrncttc Robinson. Valeric Hargrove. Dr. Mollic Brown Terry. Director of Region Five. Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society. ALPHA KAPPA MU HONOR SOCIETY Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society. Inc. is a general Scholarship Society which is open to both men and women of junior and senior classification who qualify academically. Eligibility to active membership is based upon junior or senior classification with a minimum of 60 semester hours (provided this is 50% of the hours needed for graduation) and a cumulative grade point ratio of at least 3.3 on a 4.00 scale. Trasfcr students shall be in residence for at least two semesters with a minimum of 30 semester hours earned at the new institution toward a degree. Alpha Kappa Mu was founded in November 1937 on the campus of the then Tennessee A I State College in Nashville by Dr. George W. Gore. Jr., Dean of the college. There are now more than seventy-five active chapters of the Society on the campuses of regionally-accredited colleges and universities. Alpha Kappa Mu has been a member of the Association of College Honor Societies since 1952. Under the leadership of its president. Dr. Luns C. Richardson, Morris College was granted accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in December 1978. As a result, the College became eligible to host a chapter of Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society. Accordingly, on March 18, 1980 the Mu lambda Chapter was officially established at Morris College with fourteen inductees. Dr. Luns C. Richardson, president of Morris College, has been a member of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society for more than twenty-five years. 21

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Dr. Westcott A. Johnson President Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina