A total of 57 of Hope College’s graduating seniors and recent graduates have been initiated into the college’s Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest scholastic honorary society.

The ceremony took place on Saturday, May 6, in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.

Hope is one of only 293 colleges and universities in the country to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, whose mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, foster freedom of thought and recognize academic excellence. Since the society’s founding in 1776, 17 U.S. Presidents, 42 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and more than 150 Nobel Laureates have been inducted as members, along with countless authors, diplomats, athletes, researchers, actors and business leaders.

The newly inducted members at Hope are:

  • Seth J. Almquist
  • Brynn L. Anderson
  • Carolyn J. Atkinson
  • Adriana R. Barker
  • Claire Juels Benedict
  • Brooke Alyssa Carbaugh
  • Taylor Montana Clarke
  • Jenna K. Currier
  • Bethany Rose Dame
  • Annika Jean Dekker
  • William R. Diephuis
  • Emily Marie Dykhouse
  • Eileen R. Ellis
  • Kai Orlando Francisco
  • Nancy Louise Gately
  • Adam Philip Gill
  • Margaret Grace Gillich
  • Sarah E. Grimes
  • Lydia Grace Harrison
  • Ellie Ruth Jankowski
  • Lindsay Marie Jankowski
  • Audrey Lynn Kaczmarek
  • Gabrielle Renee Kosiba
  • Nycole L. Kragt
  • Molly Caroline Leyden
  • Fara Shu Sean Ling
  • Kallen Louise Mohr
  • Linda Armande Nduwimana
  • Julia G. O'Halla
  • Katelynn Victoria Paluch
  • Paris Isabella Patterson
  • Logan Pitsenberger
  • Jared A. Poliskey
  • Leah L. Reinardy
  • David L. Rende
  • Jillian Elizabeth Ries
  • Peter Ruffolo
  • Luke M. Ruiter
  • Eric A. Salisbury
  • Isabel Lieggi Santos
  • Hailey R. Schumann
  • MacKenna M. Shampine
  • Elayna Nicole Sitzman
  • Kathryn E. Smith
  • Grace A. Stalions
  • Sutton Emerson Steensma
  • Jared N. Stephenson
  • Sarah Anne Stevenson
  • Jane Carolyn Stockbridge
  • Gabriella Marie Taylor
  • Evan Alexander Thomas
  • Erin Katherine Vokal
  • Phuong Anh Vu
  • Caitlyn Faith Warne
  • Sophie Mae Webster
  • Helen L. Weston
  • Corri Christine-Yvette Zimmerman