Phi Beta Kappa Women Picked

Last Thursday the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College elected its new members from the class of 1989. Twenty-four senior women were elected in all.

Julia Cohen, a Winthrop House economics concentrator, said, "It came as a pleasant surprise. I was happy about it even though I had never really set a goal for it."

Many of those elected with Julia mirrored her reaction. Most showed pleasant surprise and said that election to Phi Beta Kappa had never been one of their goals. "Why would anyone set Beta as a goal? It is the work that goes into it that matters," said Celia Wren of Quincy House said.

In a similar vein, Chalon Emmons of Mather House said, "It is a nice honor. I am happy with it and my father left a nice message on my machine."

The selection process is more complex than just looking at the candidate's grade point average. According to Jen Hirsch of Lowell House, after her nomination she was required to send professor recomendations to the Dean's Office. The Dean's Office said the final decisions were made on the basis of the student's overall acedemic record.

Said Martha Moore about her election, "I am pleasantly surprised. But I don't think its anything I'm going to go talking about." Morre's roommate happens to live with Hersch, and neither had told the other of their nomination, "We are very happy for each other."

Of the 24 elected, only one student, Elizabeth Safran of Cabot House, lives in the Quad. Mather House comes out the winner with five newly elected members, and Lowell follows close behind with four.

In all the newly-elected members are: Lara J. Akinbami, Economics, Kirkland House; Macrene K. Alexiades, Biology, Dudley House; Renuka Bhan, Biology, Winthrop House; Julia B. Cohen, Economics, Winthrop House; Chalon M. Emmons, American Literature, Mather House; Jill M. Goodstein, Anthropology, Mather House; Lisa H. Harris, American Literature, Quincy House; Ellen J. Harvey, History and Literature, Adams House; Jennifer R. Hersch, Economics, Lowell House; Julia C. Hilden, Philosophy Combination, Lowell House; Melissa S. Lane, Social Studies, Dunster House.

Also elected were: Karen W. Levy, American Literature, Adams House; Elizabeth J. Logsdon, Social Studies, Kirkland House; Army E. Margolin, American Literature, Mather House; Brooke A. Masters, History, Mather House; Elizabethg L. Matera, Literature, Mather House; Martha L. Moore, Religion, Lowell House; Penelope C. Papailias, American Literature, Eliot House; Annie Penn, Biology, Dunster House; Lisa P. Reiss, Psychology, Winthrop House; Kathryn E. Rorer, American Literature, Eliot House; Elizabeth Safran, Geological Sciences, Cabot House; Heidi M.V. Sullivan, Anthropology, Lowell House; and Celia M. Wren. Literature, Quincy House.