Honor Societies

The Modern Language department at Widener sponsors chapters of two honor societies: Alpha Mu Gamma and Phi Beta Delta.

Alpha Mu Gamma
Lambda Iota Chapter
Faculty Advisor:  Dr. Thomas Benedetti
Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian

Alpha Mu Gamma is the largest national collegiate foreign language honor society in the United States. It was established on April 29, 1931 at Los Angeles City College by five members of the College foreign language faculty. These five members recognized the need for a society to honor achievement in all foreign languages at an early stage in the student's career. More than 307 charters have been granted to chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

2007 Inductees

• Michelle Majeski, Spanish
• Kirk Pavoni, Italian
• Nicole Rivera, Italian
• Natalie Tavares, Spanish

Phi Beta Delta
Gamma Tau Chapter
Advisors: Dr. Beatriz Urraca
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ms. Lois Fuller
Executive Director of International Student Services and Multicultural Affairs

2007-2008 Officers

Presidents Amy Binsberger and Angela Caranci

Phi Beta Delta, founded at California State University, Long Beach in 1986, was established as an organization in 1987 with 38 chartered chapters, many of which had existed for a considerable time previously at the local level. It is the first honor society dedicated to recognizing scholarly achievement in international education. To date, more than 134 chapters have been chartered.

2007 Inductees
Faculty and Staff

• Professor David Coughlin
• Eric Hyde
• Roberta Nolan
• Professor Cynthia Saltzman
• Professor Maria Slomiana

Students

• Jaclyn Balan
• Kelsey Brown
• Mary Fernandez
• Heather Goldy
• Inna Khokhlova
• Yogi Kurniawan
• Autumn Miller
• Danielle Nagy
• Alycia Nieves
• Michael Schloss
• Kate Seward
• Leigh Ann Shmikdheiser
• Laura Beth Stashefski
• Nagma Virk
• Bharathy Viswanath

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Paul L. Goldberg
Department Chair
tel: 610-499-4342
plgoldberg@mail.widener.edu