 | The University of Virginia record March 1, 1935 |  |
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 1934, Charles Lorraine Cabell, Noble Maxwell
Goodloe, Walter Douglas Hankins, Armando Joseph Lauritano and Lewis Little-page,
Jr.; and from the class of 1935, William Eugene Apperson, William
Bennett Bean, Paul Burns Haggland, Albert Emmanuel Long and Arthur Weinberg.
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: from the class of 1934, John Newton
Bowden, Charles Lorraine Cabell, Robert Nelson Cooley, William Clegg Eversole,
and Charles Collins Orr, Jr.; and from the class of 1935, William Bennett
Bean, Paul Burns Haggland, Byrd Stuart Leavell, James Benjamin Shuler and
roland Harris Vaughan.
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