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ELMIRA, N.Y. — Eliza Beaudin, of Lewiston, Maine, was one of 28 students inducted into the Elmira College chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the international honor society rewarding first-college-year scholarship, during a ceremony held Family Weekend in Peterson Chapel.
Beaudin, a sophomore, is also a member of the college’s varsity hockey team. Phi Eta Sigma, the oldest and largest first-year honor society, was founded in 1923 at the University of Illinois with the goal of encouraging and rewarding academic excellence among full-time, first-year students in institutions of higher learning.
The society has established chapters in over 350 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Elmira College is the 289th chapter, established in 1990.
The three Greek letters, Phi, Eta and Sigma, represent the basis of the organization’s membership, in that they mean literally “lovers of wisdom.”
PHOTO: Eliza Beaudin, of Lewiston, center, was recently inducted into the Phi Eta Sigma internatiinal honory society at Elmira College, where Beaudin is a sophomore. (Submitted photo)
