Penn State
Kaley M. Ebling, Pottsville, a junior at Penn State University, University Park campus, was recently initiated into The Douglas A. Anderson Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society. The initiation ceremony took place at the Nittany Lion Inn, University Park, on April 9.
Kappa Tau Alpha is a college honor society that recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communications. Membership must be earned by excellence in academic work at one of the colleges and universities that have chapters. Selection for membership is a mark of highest distinction and honor.
Only the top 10 percent of students at Penn State studying in the College of Communications are selected for membership. There are currently more than 3,100 students enrolled in the College of Communications at PSU.
Kaley has earned recognition on the dean's list for each of the five semesters she has attended Penn State. She is a daughter of Andrew and Patricia Ebling, Pottsville.
Bloomsburg
Randi L. Dermo, a junior majoring in Spanish and German with a minor in Chinese. has been inducted into the Bloomsburg University's chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
This past summer she studied at Peking University, Beijing, China. She then completed her fall semester at Univesitas Castellae in Valladolid, Spain.
Randi plans to complete her senior year at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany. She is a daughter of Ron and Donna Dermo, Pottsville.