Lincoln College Students Inducted Into Sigma Beta Delta
International Honor Society for Business, Management, and Administration

 

[May 22, 2019]  Students from Lincoln College’s MacKinnon School of Business were recently inducted into Sigma Beta Delta (SBD) International Honor Society for Business, Management, and Administration.

Four students from the Lincoln campus and eleven students from the Accelerated Bridge to Education (ABE) program in Normal, were inducted shortly before the close of the school year.

Inducted into SBD were:

Alex Beck (Bloomington),
Caleb Cannon (Normal),
Marko Dominovic (Split, Croatia),
Jamie Evans (Le Roy),
Kevin Fry (Lincoln),
Cristine Harweger (Bloomington),
Kaylyn Hoffert (Lincoln),
Jill Kowalczyk (Peru),
Shae Ramos (Salem),
Elysa Smith (Metamora),
Jessica Stokowski (Minonk),
Matthew Sumner (Bartonville),
Morgan Underhill (Le Roy),
Kortney Wharfield (Bloomington),
Tyler Zimmerman (Bloomington)

Acceptance of this honor signals to the world a student’s collegiate accomplishments and promise of future achievement.

As SBD members, students join a prestigious group of academic and business leaders dedicated to the continual pursuit of meaningful aspirations. SBD membership conveys academic excellence and a commitment to high principles and superior achievement throughout one’s lifetime.
 

The ceremonies were officiated by Dr. Jonathan Pierce - Division Chair of the MacKinnon School of Business; Dr. Diana Heeb Bivona - Assistant Professor of Business; and Aaron Hurley - Assistant Professor of Business. Students’ family members and friends were also present for the induction ceremony.

Keynote speakers delivered inspiring messages to students. On the Lincoln campus, Cathrine Cass Busby, Materials Manager at Eaton delivered an inspirational message in which she quoted Theodore Roosevelt’s speech “The Man in the Arena.” Scott Raper, Business Adjunct Faculty at Lincoln College and local entrepreneur, delivered the keynote speech on the Normal campus, where he challenged students to create their future jobs in light of the growing trend of small business start-ups throughout the United States.

[Mark Gordon
Public Relations and Media Manager
Lincoln College]