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PHI ALPHA THETA NEWS
by Miriam Raub Vivian, Psi-Zeta Chapter Advisor
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I am pleased to announce our 2009 “class” of new members of Phi Alpha Theta, inducted at our annual society banquet on Friday, April 24: Dennise Bentle, Marc Booc, Ethan Borba, Jon Doll, Jodie Hare, Alyson Moss, Scott Porter and Celeste Sharpe.
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Jodie Hare, Dennise Bentle, Ethan Borba and John Doll
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If you think you qualify for Phi Alpha Theta, the international history honor society, please visit our department website this summer and follow the directions to apply online. You need a minimum 3.1 GPA in four or more CSUB history courses. If you have only three courses, but earned As in all three, then you may also qualify. Graduate students must have a 3.5 GPA. You may join anytime between now and roughly mid-April to be part of the annual spring induction of new members.
At our annual banquet this year, which was held at Chalet Basque, our J.R. Wonderly Award winners presented summaries of their research papers: Elise Palos (winner, graduate division), on La Tolteca, a Chicano Club at East Bakersfield High School; Daniel Sexton (winner, undergraduate division), on the expropriation of oil in Mexico in 1938; and Jon Doll (2nd place, undergraduate division), on vigilante groups in San Francisco in the 1850s. Congratulations! Daniel traveled to the PAT regional conference the previous weekend to present his paper there; he did an excellent job, and it was well received.
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Daniel Sexton, Jon Doll, and Elise Palos
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A new board of officers has been selected for next year. Please join me in congratulating the following members on their new positions:
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President:
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Fernando Jara
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Vice-President:
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Robert Frank
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Secretary:
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Ethan Borba
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Treasurer:
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Jennifer Williams
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Historian:
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Marc Booc
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Paper Award:
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Peter Wonderly
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Banquet Coordinator:
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Ken Cook
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Thanks for agreeing to serve! Thanks also to the officers for 2008-2009, as I greatly appreciate your service to our chapter: Daniel Sexton, Fernando Jara, Ken Cook, Jennifer Williams, Patrick O’Neill, Peter Wonderly, and Daniel Tierney.
The perfect preparation for the annual regional conference is our local chapter paper competition. This competition for one of the JR Wonderly Memorial Awards will be in January 2010; applications will be mailed out to members some time in December. If you wrote a research paper this past winter or spring quarter (e.g., for HIST 300 or 490 or any other history course with a research paper), or will be writing one in the fall (especially for HIST 300 or 490), please consider submitting it in January to our 16th annual paper competition; you are welcome to revise the paper as much as you like. You, too, could win one of the J.R. Wonderly (cash) Awards!
Finally, our chapter has the special honor of hosting next spring’s PAT regional student paper competition. The convenience of our hosting this event should enable a larger-than-usual number of our own students—graduate and undergraduate—to participate. Please make plans NOW to help with the conference and consider presenting a paper. The likely date for this conference will be Saturday, April 17, 2010. Contact me, if you’d like more information about this exciting event (mvivian@csub.edu).
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