Randolph announces 2018 Phi Beta Kappa inductees

Eleven members of the Class of 2018 have been inducted into the Randolph College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society.

The inductees were:

Di Bei

Sophia S. Dill

Ayla Marjorie Hagen

Lydia Hamd

Miranda Li Hudson

Lauren Elizabeth Morris

Tetiana Poliakova

Stuart Pratuch

Taylor Alexis Samuels

Jessy Spencer

Melissa Leslie Vandiver

In 1916, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College received the first Phi Beta Kappa charter granted to an independent woman’s college in the South, and the Delta Chapter of Virginia was officially installed the following year.

Founded on December 5, 1776, The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society. It has chapters at 286 colleges and universities in the United States, 50 alumni associations, and more than half a million members worldwide. Noteworthy members include 17 U.S. presidents, 39 justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and more than 130 Nobel Laureates. The mission of The Phi Beta Kappa Society is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, foster freedom of thought, and recognize academic excellence.