Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--For the 13th consecutive year, Mississippi State's student chapter of the Pi Omega Pi national business education honor society is among the nation's Top 10.
The 11-member university group placed fourth overall recently in competition as part of the 2010 National Business Education Association Convention in San Diego, Calif.
Also:
--Senior Brookes A. Mayes of Newton was awarded the NBEA Award of Merit. The daughter of Kent and Polly Mayes, she currently is serving a two-year term as national Pi Omega Pi student representative. A technology teacher education/business technology major, she graduated from East Central Community College prior to enrolling at MSU last year.
--Professor Connie Forde, a senior member of the instructional systems and workforce development department faculty, is in a two year term as president-elect of the Pi Omega Pi national council. Adviser for the MSU chapter, she formally assumes the top post at the 2013 convention in Atlanta.
Pi Omega Pi was established more than 80 years ago to promote scholarship and service among students and teachers in business education. It has more than 54,000 members spread among some two dozen chapters.
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