Elon’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter inducts 90 students, faculty, staff and alumni

Ninety students, faculty, staff and an alumnus were inducted into the Elon University Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest multidisciplinary honor society dedicated to academic excellence and service, at a ceremony on April 23.

Added to the chapter’s roster were 79 undergraduates, four graduate students, one alumnus and six members of faculty and staff.

The keynote address was delivered by Wendell McKenzie, former Phi Kappa Phi Southern Regional Vice President and a professor emeritus of biology at N.C. State University. McKenzie installed Elon’s Chapter 275 in November 1995. Angela Lewellyn, senior associate dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Shereen Elgamal, senior lecturer in Arabic studies and past chapter president, also gave remarks.

Elon alumnus Ira “Ike” O. Credle ’83 was inducted into the chapter following a career of service in military, civilian and ministerial roles. Credle served in the U.S. Army for 20 years in a variety of assignments, including in the Pentagon’s intelligence office, until retiring in 2003. He then served as a Department of the Army civilian and was a senior training specialist at the 1st Information Operations Command, in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He retired from federal service in 2023 and is active in his church, New Chapel Baptist Church in Camp Springs, Maryland. Credle earned a master’s degree in administration from Central Michigan University and a Doctor of Education in organizational leadership with an emphasis in Christian ministry from Grand Canyon University.

Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and largest multidisciplinary academic honor society whose mission is “to recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.” Each year, chapters may invite the upper 7.5% of the junior class and upper 10% of the senior and graduate classes.

Since its founding, more than 1 million members have been initiated in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

The following were inducted into Elon’s Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi:

Alumni

Ira Credle ’83

Faculty and staff

Monica Burney

Peter Felten

Jennifer Goforth

Andrea Sinn

Charlotte Smith

Sabrina Thurman

Graduate students

Macaylee Anderson

Jack Demody

John Ferebee

Madeleine Tapia Solis

Undergraduate students

Sol Addison

Lilly Arora

Matthew August

Juliette Baudoin

Madeline Bauman

Lauren Beuerle

Clara Bolger

Halley Brewer

Margo Buchanan

Ryan Campbell

Kaidyn Carroll

Evan Chipman

Coral Clark

Charlotte Coates

Gabrielle Conover

Emily Copeland

Catherine Crawford

Nicholas Dilley

Patrick Doyle

Marissa Duffield

Robin Falkow

Cole Fauerbach

Sarah Fetherston

Sammy Fisher

Alyssa Frazier

Taylor Gabaldon

Rachel Garner

Robert Goecker

Casey Goldman

Kayla Gordon

Claire Gormley

Ethan Grossberg

Delaney Guidi

Anna Hamner

Fiona Hodge

Eva Hunter

Nicholas Ivanov

Téa Jones

Ashley Josey

Amalie Keefe

Blake Kessel

Avi Kurtz

Johanna Lauff

Julianna Levanti

Kelly Locke

Mollie Lund

Sadie Margolis

Jade May

Cole Meixsell

Katey O’Connell

Anna Okum

Natalie Peeples

Savannah Peterson

Walter Pierce

Callison Reing

Liliana Ribero

Sofie Ricca

Samantha Roedel

Erin Rohde

Allie Rosinger

Alexander Saffelle

Morgan Sanders

Rachel Schlansky

Henry Searle

Maya Segal

Amaya Scheffield

Chase Siewert

Gianna Smurro

Jackson Spaeth

Nikitha Sripathi

Fayrah Stylianopoulos

Avery Sutherland

Madison Synowiec

Zhouhao Tan

Jillian Thomas

Lorenzo Tibolla

Sabella Volansky

Sophia Walper

Mara Waskiewicz