The Oklahoma State University Mortar Board recently initiated 46 students into the Achafoa chapter. Mortar Board is a national honor society for college students that recognizes superior scholastic ability, outstanding and continual leadership, and dedicated service to the college or university community.

Six young women founded OSU’s chapter in 1930 and named I Achafoa, which is a Choctaw word for “a few rare and precious ones.”

For more information on Mortar Board, contact Emily Martin at emily.martin@okstate.edu. For more information on a specific student, contact OSU Communications at 405-744-6260.

New initiates include:

OKLAHOMA

BROKEN ARROW:

Drake DeWitt, mechanical engineering and finance

CHICKASHA:

Hannah Bingham, accounting 

CLAREMORE:

Emily Williams, biochemistry and molecular biology

COPAN:

Tess Hollopeter, accounting

DUNCAN:

Allison Christiana, animal science, pre-vet option

EDMOND:

Jessica Harry, athletic training, pre-professional option

Shelby Nicholson, biology

Lyndsay Parks, human resources management

ELK CITY:

Kyle Lake, mechanical engineering

Kyndall Muncrief, nutritional sciences- allied health

ELMORE CITY:

Mary Dwayna Temple-Lee, animal science, animal biochemistry 

HELENA:

Hannah Jo Berg, design, housing and merchandising, apparel merchandising option 

HOOKER:

Alexis Wiebe, agribusiness pre-law 

HUGO:

Jena Rae Kellum, animal science

IDABEL:

Shawn Madison Parsons, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering 

KINGSTON:

Zadie Cook, agricultural business and agricultural communications

MADILL:

Luke Chapman, agribusiness 

MORRISON:

Hannah Sanders, microbiology 

MULDROW:

Gretchen Moore, biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology 

NASH:

Mandy Schroeder, agricultural leadership, extension education option 

OKLAHOMA CITY:

Kourtney Leigh Brooks, entrepreneurship and marketing

Ariana Bruner, Spanish and sociology/pre-med

Vivian O’Hara, accounting

STILLWATER:

Brooke Stokes, secondary education-social studies

Nathan Woods, marketing and international business 

TECUMSEH:

Dakota Murdock, chemical and petroleum engineering 

TULSA:

Laurel Eve, human development and family science

Lindsey Gabler, nutritional sciences, dietetics option

Christina Miller, strategic communications, Spanish

Samantha Oard, sports media, political science, pre-law 

YUKON:

Kaylen Baker, animal science and agricultural communications

ARKANSAS 

FORT SMITH: 

Rachel Davis, chemical engineering, pre-med option

CALIFORNIA 

BAKERSFIELD:

Nicole Bayne, agribusiness pre-law and legal studies

TEXAS

ARLINGTON:

Megan Billingsley, accounting

CANADIAN:

Annie Alexander, psychology and leadership

COLLEYVILLE:

David Hidinger, chemical engineering

FRISCO:

Aidan Justice, agribusiness and agricultural communications

PARADISE:

Daniel Jordan, landscape architecture

PLANO:

Madison Bahe, physiology 

TEXARKANA:

Hannah Patterson, nutritional sciences, pre-med

WICHITA FALLS:

Alli Owen, multimedia journalism

Story by Katie Rosebrook