“You don’t just decide tomorrow you want to be excellent. You have to strive to do it over a long period of time.” —Steven House (ΦBK, Elon University)
DiChiera (ΦBK, UCLA) advocated for the arts and was adamant that the overall health of a city was intrinsically related to its artistic production and activity.
George H.W. Bush, ΦΒΚ from Yale in 1948, remembered for service and upstanding model of statesmanship…
Katie Laurel Wells (ΦBK, The University of the South) turns the story of her disability into a book for children and a mission to educate.
Tigue (ΦBK, Michigan State University), a PhD student at the University of Georgia, will use the $15,000 award to help further her studies.
Wexler (ΦBK, Yale) is the Artistic Director of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition a resident composer for A Broader Way Foundation.
100-year-old Jean Wallace White (ΦBK, Duke University) launched an impressive three generations of Phi Beta Kappa members in her family.
Vanda Krefft (ΦBK, University of Pennsylvania) is the author of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox.
Parks (ΦBK, Mount Holyoke) was the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, which she won in 1999 for Topdog/Underdog.
For Jim Peck (ΦBK, Carleton College), a liberal arts education is in perpetual motion: “It’s the kind of notion that knowledge isn’t static—it’s a thing that gets made.”
With a background in theater and computer science, Greg Edwards (ΦBK, Yale) explains how his position with Google fills an emotional niche similar to writing.
Psychoanalyst and English professor Lee Jenkins (ΦBK, Fisk University) addresses themes of interracial love and coming-of-age during the 1960s in his novel Right of Passage.
