SIGMA DELTA PI National Spanish Honor Society, kappa Upsilon Chapter

2016 Initiation  Ceremony and Awards Reception

University of Delaware

April 29, 2016 4:00-6:00 PM

Trabant room 209-211

Spanías Didagéi Proágomen

 

SIGMA DELTA PI CEREMONY PROGRAM

Sigma Delta Pi initiates are dedicated to the continued learning and fostering of the Spanish language, and Hispanic literature and culture. The Sigma Delta Pi initiation ceremony recognizes each initiate’s dedication to the study of Spanish and asks that he or she pledge to keep that interest alive.

  

Entrance and welcome

 

Initiation of Honorary Members

Professor Miguel Ángel Martínez

  

Initiation of 2016 Members

 

Pledge

  

Literary Readings of poems, organized by Professor Gladys Ilarregui

      

 Initiation Ritual

 

Musical Interludes by

Chris Braddock, guitar

Mindy Bowman, flute

 

Canto de Romería/Mexican traditional

El Chihuanco, Bolivian traditional

El Grillo, Colombian traditional

 

 Reception and Awards Ceremony

SIGMA DELTA PI 2016 INITIATES

Rebecca Jill Arias

Alexa August

Kelsey Burke

Caraline Canning

Benjamin Carleton

Scott Eisenhart

Haley Hughes

Daniel Hutton

Laura James

Julia Johansson

Christina Kelly

Matthew Mendoza

Katelyn Muscat

Hannah Orlando

Richard Raspa

Amber Riley

Selby Seador

Michelle Thompson

Victoria Weston

Brian Zilberberg

 

SIGMA DELTA PI AWARDS

 

Sigma Delta Pi Book Award

The National Spanish Honor Society honors the new initiate majoring in Spanish major with the highest cumulative index.

Recipient: Benjamin Carleton (3.975)

 

Awards for Excellence in Spanish Studies

Best Graduate Student Essay

Awarded for the best essay by a graduate student in Spanish Studies. Minimum GPA of 3.0 required.

Recipients:

Nathan Herbert for his essay “Los pordioseros: abyección en El Señor Presidente,” written under the direction of Professor Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz.

Benjamín Romero Salado for his essay “Like carnaval”: suspensión, subversión y lo carnavalesco en “Ustedes serán muy felices” written under the direction of Professor Joan Brown.

 

Best Essay in Upper-division Hispanic Literature and Culture Courses

Awarded for the best essay in an undergraduate upper-division course in Hispanic literature. Minimum GPA of 3.0 required.

Recipient:

Selby Seador for his essay “El simbolismo del estilo en La plaza del Diamante” written under the direction of Professor Joan Brown.

Janet Murdock Prize

Awarded to the participants in semester-long Study Abroad programs with the highest cumulative grade point average.

Recipients:

Kathleen Loden Dubis (3.533) for the Buenos Aires, Argentina program.

Jeel Oza (3.896) for the Granada, Spain program.

 

the kappa upsilon chapter and Sigma Delta Pi

ΣΔΠ, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society (Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica), was established on November 14, 1919, at UC, Berkeley. The ΚΥ, U. of Delaware chapter was founded in 1974 by Dr. Julián Valbuena, Elias Ahuja Emeritus Professor of Spanish. ΣΔΠ’s insignia is the royal seal of Ferdinand and Isabel, representing Castile, León and Aragón. The Society’s colors are red and gold, & its flower is the red carnation.

 

The Chair and the Spanish and Pedagogy Faculty of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, listed below, congratulate the new initiates of Sigma Delta Pi and the award recipients:

Annette Giesecke

(Interim Department Chair)

Jesús Botello

(Faculty Advisor, Sigma Delta Pi)

Jorge Cubillos

(Secretario)

Cristina Guardiola

(Anunciadora)

 

Ruth Bell, Jesús Botello, Persephone Braham, Joan Brown, Hans-Jörg Busch, Iris Busch, Robert Corradetti, Alberto Delgado,  Carmen Finnicum, Lee Glen, Cristina Guardiola, Fátima Haq, Stacey Hendrix, Crista Johnson, Loretta Lantolf, Cynthia Lees, Doris Manzano, Dora Marín, América Martínez, Ana Martínez Vela, Thomas McCone, Meghan McInnis-Domínguez, Susan McKenna, Basia Moltchanov, Krystyna Musik, Aurelia Río, Bonnie Robb, Asima Saad-Maura, Cindy Schmidt-Cruz, Eduardo Segura, and Alexander Selimov.