PKP's Quarterly Highlights Passion of Longtime UK Fans
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 15, 2014) — Passionate University of Kentucky sports fans Wendell and Vickie Bell, Jim Brown, and Bob Wiggins are featured in a column in the Fall 2014 issue of FORUM, the quarterly magazine of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, which honors academic excellence in all disciplines.
Authored by Carl Nathe of UK Public Relations and Marketing, the article celebrates the institutional pride exhibited by Brown, a UK football supporter for 70 years who is now in his mid-90s; Wiggins, 85, who has followed the Wildcat basketball fortunes for more than six decades; and the Bells, generous donors and followers of UK Olympic sports teams who recently saw the new soccer stadium at UK dedicated in their honor.
Phi Kappa Phi's robust award programs give more than $1 million each biennium to qualifying students and members through graduate fellowships, undergraduate study abroad grants, member and chapter awards and grants for local and national literacy initiatives.
Founded in 1897, the society annually inducts students from more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines. PKP membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff, alumni and community members who have achieved scholarly distinction also may qualify.
PKP's mission is "To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others." For more information, visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org.
The UK Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi recently issued its annual invitations for membership. The chapter's annual induction ceremony will take place Monday evening, Nov. 10 (note the date change from the previously announced Nov. 3) in the Small Ballroom of the UK Student Center.
Phi Kappa Phi is supported by The Chellgren Center which is part of the Academy for Undergraduate Excellence within the Division of Undergraduate Education at UK.
MEDIA CONTACT: Carl Nathe, 859-257-3200; carl.nathe@uky.edu.