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MC’s Alpha Gamma Sigma inducts 19 students during 2021 ceremony

May 20, 2021

Maryville College’s Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Scholarship Society inducted 19 new members during a ceremony held May 6, 2021 at McArthur Pavilion.

The purpose of Alpha Gamma Sigma, according to its constitution, is to “encourage thorough scholarship and to stimulate interest in cultural pursuits among the students of the College.”

Membership is extended to the top 10 percent (by GPA) of students with senior standing at the start of the spring semester who are eligible to graduate with honors.  A junior of exceptional ability and scholarship may be elected into the society through a unanimous vote of the active membership.

The following seniors are the College’s newest inductees of Alpha Gamma Sigma: 

Robert Bryant ’21, an art major from Maryville, Tenn.; Anastasia Dunn ’21, a biochemistry major from Winston, Ga.; Eleanor Forester ’21, a history major from Memphis, Tenn.; Abigail Howard ’21, a psychology (counseling) major from Madisonville, Tenn.; Eliza Komisar ’21, a literature in English major from Chattanooga, Tenn.; Cooper Lawson ’21, an art and theatre studies double major from Knoxville, Tenn.; Lindsey Lewallen ’21, an exercise science major from Clarkesville, Ga.; Iyana Macon ’21, a management major from Odenville, Ala.; Matthew Malone ’21, a finance/accounting major from Townsend, Tenn. (awarded posthumously) ; Brylie Mays ’21, a history major from Crossville, Tenn.; Spencer Ann Mitchell ’21, an exercise science and neuroscience double major from Columbia, S.C.; Alexis Pack ’21, an exercise science major from Maryville, Tenn.; David Rose-Franklin ’21, a computer science major from Lenoir City, Tenn.; Cole Senn ’21, a music major from Knoxville, Tenn.; Claire Willenbrink ’21, a biology major from Liberty Township, Ohio; Sarah Williams ’21, a child development and learning major from Decatur, Tenn.; Carly Youngblood ’21, an American Sign Language and Deaf studies major from Cookeville, Tenn.; Sammy Zeino ’21, a political science major from Knoxville, Tenn.; and Kayla Zimmerman ’21, a biochemistry and exercise science double major from Knoxville, Tenn.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”