Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State business majors from Tippah and Madison counties are receiving top honors from the university chapter of an international honor society.
Senior Karen A. Rangel of Ripley and junior Amanda C. Harden of Madison are respective 2010 selections for the Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter Award and the Dr. John Mitchell Memorial Scholarship. Both honors are accompanied by a $1,000 check.
Rangel, the daughter of Hector and Maria Rangel, is an international business major. Harden is a pre-business major and the daughter of Penni Shirley of Madison and C. Harden of Cordova, Tenn.
Both awards recognize academic achievement, work experience and leadership activities.
BGS was the first national honor society in business. With chapters now worldwide, its membership is open to undergraduate majors in the top 10 percent of programs at schools accredited by the International Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. (For more, visit www.betagammasigma.org/aboutbgs.htm.)
Rangel and Harden are President's List Scholars, as well as members of the Shackouls Honors College and Phi Kappa Phi international honor society.
Rangel also is a member of the College of Business Ambassadors, a student recruiting and service organization, and an earlier selection for the James K. Ashford Scholarship.
Harden also is a member of the Order of Omega leadership honor society and Delta Gamma social sorority.
The Mitchell Scholarship honors the late Starkville banker who had been recognized by the BGS chapter for his many personal and professional achievements.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.