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HONOR SOCIETIES

The Alpha Omega Alpha Society.—On November 15, 1919, a charter
was issued for the establishment in this University of a chapter of the honor
medical society, Alpha Omega Alpha, to which there are chosen annually
one-fifth of each graduating class, on the basis of scholarship, character, and
professional promise. Since publication of the last catalogue the following
have been elected to membership: from the class of 1933, Charles Varner
Amole, Jethro Meriwether Hurt and Frederick Matthews Jacobs; and from
the class of 1934, Richard Reading Chamberlain, Clark Cooper, Charles Collins
Orr, Jr., James Robert Shanklin and Robert Fletcher Watson.

The Iota Sigma Society.—In the spring of 1927 there was organized a
local honor medical society, Iota Sigma, whose membership is open to
medical students who have completed the first term of the third year with a
total of not less than 40 honor points. Prospective candidates must further
qualify with regard to congeniality, personality, interest in research, practicability
and future professional promise. The primary aims of this society
are to raise the standard of scholarship, to stimulate sympathetic interest in
research, and in every possible way to aid the Medical School in the maintenance
of its high ideal of medical training and service. Since publication of
the last catalogue the following have been elected to membership: Clark
Cooper, Walter Douglas Hankins, William Allen Johns, James Robert Shanklin
and Robert Fletcher Watson.