CONTACT:
Dr. Glenda Earwood
Executive Director
National Alpha Lambda Delta
478-744-9595
FAX: 478-744-9924
glenda@nationalald.org
Dr. Susan Melson Huffman, President of Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society for First Year Students, announced that the University of Connecticut chapter has won the prestigious Maintaining the Flame Award for the activities during the 2013-2014 academic term.
The Maintaining the Flame Award celebrates outstanding chapters that have shown continued excellence in chapter programming, communications, and service; it is a follow-up award to the Society’s Order of the Torch Award. Each year, the National Council of Alpha Lambda Delta selects the top chapters for the Society’s Order of the Torch Award – chapters that have excelled in the areas of programming, internal communications, and campus visibility. After receiving the Order of the Torch, a chapter is eligible to compete in that program for the next four years – Maintaining the Flame is awarded to chapters who continue their excellent work during their period of ineligibility.
The successful chapter was led by Marissa Mannello who served as President of the University of Connecticut chapter last year. The chapter is advised by David Ouimette & Megan Gunderson. The chapter last won the Order of the Torch in 2011, and will be eligible to compete for that award again in 2014-2015 academic year.
Alpha Lambda Delta emphasizes that educated persons have a responsibility to “have tolerance in your dealings with all persons, generosity in giving to those in need, and insight into the feelings of others” says Dr. Glenda Earwood, executive Director of the Society. Members are challenged to make “meaningful contributions to society.”
Founded in the spring of 1924 at the University of Illinois by Dean Maria Leonard, Alpha Lambda Delta is a national honor society that recognizes and encourages excellence among the first year students. Today, Alpha Lambda Delta has 275 chapters throughout the Unites States and more than 1,000,000 students have been initiated into membership since the first chapter was started 90 years ago.