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The North Carolina Lambda Chapter, located at Western Carolina University
The North Carolina Lambda Chapter has been awarded several honorable awards for extensive campus membership and distinguished campus impact including the:
Roll of Distinction
Roll of Merit
Joseph B. James Chapters Incentive Award
Dr. Mercer currently serves as the International President of Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society, as well as an advisor to the North Carolina Lambda Chapter.
Crystal Belch serves on the Pi Gamma Mu Board of Trustees as a student representative.
Pi Gamma Mu-North Carolina Lambda Chapter Distinguished Officers include:
International President & Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gordon Mercer
Ronnie Hewitt - Chapter President
Amanda Shirk-
Chapter Secretary
Pi Gamma Mu Mission:
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To encourage the study of the social sciences and closely related disciplines among students and faculty members in colleges and universities throughout the world,
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To recognize outstanding achievement through selection to membership and the presentation of various awards for distinguished achievement,
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To promote mutual understanding among the people of differing opinions through academic study and academic disciplines.
.....................................................................The Seven Ideals of Pi Gamma Mu:
- Scholarship
- Science
- Social Sciences
- Social Idealism
- Sociability
- Social Service
- Sacrifice
Pi Gamma Mu History
Pi Gamma Mu was founded in 1924 by Dean Leroy Allen from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas along with Dean William Hamilton of the College of William and Mary. Pi Gamma Mu is the oldest, largest, and most significant honor society concerned with the Social Sciences. The first large university to establish a chapter was Columbia University in N.Y. City in 1925. The University of Hawaii was the first chapter to be organized outside the continental United States. The first foreign chapters formed in 1932 at the University of Toronto in Canada and at the University of the Philippines.
SOCIAL SCIENCE was established as a quarterly journal in 1925. With the beginning of Volume 57 in 1982, the name of the journal was changed to INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW. Publication of the PI GAMMA MU NEWSLETTER began in 1978.
Rear Admiral Richard Byrd served for a time as Honorary National President of Pi Gamma Mu, in 1928 carrying the Society's flag to the Antarctic. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a member of the Society and joined as a student; Two Presidents of the Philippines were also members of the Society.
The Society was incorporated under the name "The National Social Science Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu, Inc." on April 5, 1929 as a non-profit corporation in Colorado. To acknowledge its chapters outside the U. S., the Board of Trustees took action in 1980 to change the name of the Society to "Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Science."
Today there are over 149 active chapters located at various universities throughout the United States and abroad.
For more information on Pi Gamma Mu please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Gamma_Mu
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