Omicron Kappa Upsilon inducts new
members
Omicron
Kappa Upsilon (OKU), the National Dental Honorary Society, inducted
eight new student-members at a ceremony April 4 at the Country Club of
Charleston. The dinner and induction ceremony was presided by Ron Bell,
DDS, director of graduate orthodontics.OKU annually inducts a select group of graduating fourth-year dental students who demonstrate exemplary traits of character, professional qualities and scholarship as described in the OKU by-laws and voted by the membership. Students selected include Beth Alderman, Erin Conard, Jina Kang, Suren Paravyan, Katherine Renne, Walter Renne and Alison Sanders.
The new
student-inductees are from left Suren Paravyan, Jina Kang, Katherine
Renne, Walter Renne, Beth Alderman, Erin Conard, Alison Sanders and
Gail Ward.Also inducted into OKU in the honorary category was Gail Ward, a long-time dental assistant in the College of Dental Medicine’s Department of Restorative Dentistry. Ward was inducted not only for her 30-plus years of dedicated service to MUSC, but also because of her job excellence. Highly respected among students, faculty and co-workers, Ward is the first inductee into MUSC’s Zeta-Eta Chapter of OKU.
Also introduced at the banquet was next year’s slate of officers. Bob Draughn, DSc, will serve as the organization’s president for 2008-09.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Catalyst Online is published weekly,
updated
as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public
Relations
for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of
South
Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at
792-4107
or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to
Catalyst
Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to
catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island
Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.