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University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Honors Week records, 1949-2016
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Records pertaining to Honors Week, an annual celebration of students achieving outstanding academic performance. Includes Honors Week and banquet programs, committee meeting minutes and planning ma...
Records pertaining to Honors Week, an annual celebration of students achieving outstanding academic performance. Includes Honors Week and banquet programs, committee meeting minutes and planning materials, Outstanding Seniors lists, photographs, speeches, and memorabilia.
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- Mixed Materials
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- English
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- 1.4 linear feet (1 record carton, 1 archives box)
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- Arrangement: flat
- OCLC
- ocm20402558
- Series is open to the public.
- Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright owned by the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire.
- This collection is available for transfer through the Area Research Center Network. Contact Special Collections & Archives for more information.
- Records pertaining to Honors Week, an annual celebration of students achieving outstanding academic performance. Records pertaining to Honors Week, an annual celebration of students achieving outstanding academic performance. Academic honor societies hold events, activities, and give out awards to members. A banquet at the end of the week honors student achievements and provides “Outstanding Senior” awards. During the 1970s, Assistant Chancellor Ormsby Harry thought that students’ academic excellence should be celebrated during the spring semester before they graduated, and not just celebrated on commencement day. Harry involved the academic honor societies in organizing Honors Week. “He worked closely with foreign languages professor Roma Hoff, advisor to Sigma Delta Phi, the Spanish honor society. For the first such event, in 1973, five academic honor societies were led by Phi Kappa Phi, presenting a week’s worth of events capped with a Saturday evening banquet and an address by Circuit Court Judge Thomas Barland. The next year, eight academic societies joined in the event, and by 1977 seventeen honor societies took part.” (Building Excellence: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 1916-2016, p. 177)
- Materials are in English.