KJ Iribe Honored with Society Order of the Sword and Spear Award for 2004

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Friday, January 27, 2006

MORTON GROVE, Ill.—KJ Iribe of Washington, D.C., a 2004 graduate of Wesleyan University, was recently awarded the Alpha Delta Phi Society’s Order of the Sword and Spear Award for 2004, the highest distinction the Society can give to one of its undergraduate members.

She was presented with the honor during the closing banquet of the Society’s Seventh Convention and Leadership Training Conference, recently hosted by its Brunonian Chapter at Brown University in Providence, R.I. The Society announces the award recipients for the previous two years at each of its biennial Conventions.

The Society Order of the Sword and Spear recognizes the outstanding undergraduate member of the Alpha Delta Phi Society each year. A committee that included a graduate member from each of the Society’s chapters selected Iribe for the award from a number of nominees.

“KJ was a strong leader as an undergraduate member. Her peers recognized her abilities, and she was elected to many of her chapter’s leadership positions,” said Alpha Delta Phi Society President Craig Cheslog (Bowdoin 1993). “The nominees were very strong, and the awards committee made an excellent choice. She set a great example for future Alpha Delt undergraduates.”

As an undergraduate member, Iribe served as the chapter secretary, historian, rush chair, house manager, chaplain, coed chair, critic, and president. She also was the recipient of the 2004 Joe Swain Award for distinguished service to the Society’s Middletown Chapter.

Iribe graduated from Wesleyan with a bachelor’s degree in art history. She was a three-year member of the Prometheus performance group, a four-year member of the Outings Club, a member of the Art History Majors Committee, and in her senior year she served as an orientation leader for new students.

The Alpha Delta Phi Society is a literary society and one of North America’s foremost coeducational Greek-letter institutions, with five active chapters. The Alpha Delta Phi was founded by Samuel Eells in 1832 to encourage free thought and to supplement classroom education. In 1992, after years of controversy over the status of women within the organization, the Alpha Delta Phi formally separated into the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which would accept women, and the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.

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