SCHOLARSHIPS Phi Kappa Phi to honor, reward local YSU students

A graduate student also will be honored during the event.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University students from Poland, Warren and New Middletown have been selected to receive scholarships from YSU Chapter 143 of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
Jennifer Elizabeth Davidson, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering from Poland, will receive the 2004-05 Chapter 143 Scholarship Award of $1,000 for her graduate studies. Each Phi Kappa Phi Chapter nominates one student for competition for Phi Kappa Phi national fellowships. Davidson is this year's nominee from Chapter 143.
Freshmen Victoria Marie Chaney, a sociology major from Warren, and Carrie Lynne Davis, an education major from New Middletown, will receive the Gratia Murphy First Year Award. The award, named to honor the memory of a former professor of English and one of Chapter 143's founding members, is given to outstanding freshmen.
In addition, the $1,000 Mavrigian-Grim Award, named in honor of Gus Mavrigian and the late John Grim, longtime active leaders of Phi Kappa Phi, will be given to an outstanding student who intends to pursue graduate work. The recipient's name will be announced at the banquet.
The event
The students will be recognized and initiated into the society at a banquet at 6 p.m. March 31 in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center. Reservation deadline for the banquet is Friday. For more information, call Sharyn Fees at (330) 941-3627.
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and largest national honor society in the nation and has inducted more than 1 million scholars, almost 3,000 of them in Chapter 143. The society is dedicated to the recognition and promotion of excellence in all areas of higher education and will allocate more than $500,000 in 2005 for scholarships, grants and literacy initiatives.