Gladys Porter made member of Phi Beta Kappa - 1916

Norwich Young Lady Accorded High Honor

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1916

 

Gladys H. Porter

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Miss Gladys H. Porter, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Porter, of this city, and a student in Syracuse university, has attained the highest honor accorded by colleges for exceptional standing.  Miss Porter has been made a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, a national society, to be eligible to a degree in which the average standing must show above 85.  Miss Porter's average for the last year has been nearly 90.  Only about 6 per cent of college students are successful in securing this degree. She is also a member of the Kappa Pi Sigma, an honorary society in pedagogy, a degree conferred upon her by the college last year.

 

Miss Porter has always been a close and conscientious student and has always maintained a high standing in her work.  She entered school at the age of 6, and during the first two years completed the course designed to be covered in three years. She never missed an examination or a grade during her career in the local schools.  She graduated from the Norwich High School in the class of 1911, finishing the four-year course in three and one-half years and securing the highest standing of any member of her class. At the close of a one-year post-graduate course she had 111-1/2 regents' counts to her credit and was awarded a gold seal regents' certificate, the highest bestowed by the State department of education. 

 

Miss Porter expects to graduate in the classical course from Syracuse University the coming June, majoring in Latin and minoring in English She will then be ready to take up the teaching of these subjects in High Schools.