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Graduating Senior Receives Educator Honor
Susan Nichols with Donovan D. Steiner, chair of EMU's teacher education department.
Ms. Nichols is a graduating senior liberal arts major with early/primary education licensure from Mount Jackson, Va.
The award, given each spring since 1997, honors women education graduates at Virginia’s four-year institutions who show a great deal of potential for becoming key women educators.
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International was organized in 1929 by Annie Webb Blanton, first woman to be elected Texas State superintendent of public instruction. Today the Society numbers approximately 130,000 members from 14 countries.
Organized for a membership of key women educators, the Society included among its founding purposes the mandate to honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education. The Virginia Scholars Award is a project of the Iota State Organization (Virginia) for the express purpose of accomplishing that goal. In 2004, 30 colleges/universities participated, resulting in 35 recipients for the academic year 2003-2004.
