STAFF REPORTS




ELMIRA, N.Y. — The Elmira College Rho Mu Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education recently held its induction ceremony for outstanding education majors. This year’s inductees include:


Taylor Kaznowski of Blasdell, NY (14219)
Kerri Patt of Spencerport, NY (14559)


During the ceremony, outstanding education and speech and language disabilities majors completing their junior year were inducted into the prestigious honor society for educators. The event included a keynote address by Elisabeth Bostwick, award-winning educator, digital innovator, and author.
Kappa Delta Pi was founded in 1911 to foster excellence in education and promote fellowship among those dedicated to teaching. For over a century, the Society has consistently grown, starting with a local chapter to become the international organization it is today, with an initiated membership that exceeds 1.2 million. The Rho Mu Chapter originated at Elmira College in 1988.


Elmira College is a private, coeducational, Phi Beta Kappa college founded in 1855, located in Elmira, New York. The College has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 1,200 full-time mostly-residential students, and is the guardian of Quarry Farm where Mark Twain wrote many of his most iconic novels and is today a research center for visiting Twain scholars. The College has been ranked as a Best College in the Northeast by The Princeton Review and a Top Tier national liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranked Elmira College as a leading college, nationally, for student internships. The Philadelphia Inquirer cited the Elmira College campus as ‘picture postcard perfect.’