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Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Release date: April 13, 1999
Contact: Elaine Justice, Assistant Director

EMORY UNIVERSITY STUDENT RECEIVES HONOR SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP

Emory University junior Danielle Sered, daughter of Joan Sered Smith of Evanston, Ill. (60201), has been awarded the 1999 Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Junior Scholarship Award of $2,000. The award, offered in honor of E. Nelson James, long-time executive secretary of Sigma Tau Delta, is given to applicants who demonstrate both academic scholarship and chapter service.

Sigma Tau Delta is the International English Honor Society. A member of the Association of College Honor Societies, it was founded in 1924 at Dakota Wesleyan University. The purposes of the society are to confer distinction for high achievement in English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate and professional studies, to promote interest in literature and the English language on local campuses and their surrounding communities, and to foster the discipline of English in all its aspects, including creative and critical writing.

Membership in Sigma Tau Delta is an outward recognition of personal accomplishment and an incentive for continued high scholarship. Sigma Tau Delta provides opportunities for those interested in English language and literature to join with like-minded persons on the local, regional, national and international levels. Sered, a member of the Zeta Omicron chapter since 1998, joins the likes of James Dickey, Robert Bly, Frank Herbert and Eudora Welty in membership.