Caton honored at Mary Baldwin convocation
STAUNTON, Va.– Students, faculty, staff and friends of Mary Baldwin University gathered inside Francis Auditorium on March 30 for Honors Convocation, a ceremony to recognize student academic achievement.
Hailey Caton of Orange Park earned an award at the honors ceremony.
Mary Baldwin University, founded in 1842, is a deliberately small, coeducational university with the foresight to see possibility, the courage to act and a profound commitment to community. Offering a range of degree programs from bachelors to doctoral, it serves a diverse student population on its main campus in Staunton, Virginia, at its nearby health sciences campus in Augusta County, online, and through regional advising centers throughout Virginia. All programs are coeducational except the Mary Baldwin College for Women. Throughout 2016-17, MBU is celebrating its 175th anniversary.

Clay students inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
BATON ROUGE, La. – Four college students from Clay County recently joined the more than 30,000 members of the prestigious honor society Phi Kappa Phi.
Lynn Phillips of Fleming Island and Joseph Hansknecht of Green Cove Springs were initiated at Florida State University; Charles Christ of Orange Park was initiated at State University of New York at Oswego and Pia Badger of Orange Park was initiated at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, Phi Kappa Phi membership is through invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.
Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of Marcus L. Urann who had a desire to create a different kind of honor society: one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines. Today, the Society has chapters on more than 300 campuses in the United States and the Philippines.