Samantha Gross of Pottstown Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

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CHESTERTOWN, MD (03/20/2014)(readMedia)-- Washington College is pleased to announce the recent induction of Samantha Gross '14 of Pottstown, PA, into Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most elite honor society in the United States. The society serves to recognize the power of a liberal arts education by acknowledging students that have achieved high levels of intellectual discipline and achievement.

Gross is majoring in English and hispanic studies and minoring in business management. On campus, she has interned with the Literary House, edited the foreign language literary and cultural magazine, is a peer mentor, and is a member of the Cater Society of Junior Fellows and the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. She is also a member of the Sigma Tau Delta, Sigma Delta Pi, and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. Over the summer, she worked with the C.V. Starr Center on an oral history project about the civil rights movement on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Founded in 1782 under the patronage of George Washington, Washington College is a private, independent college of liberal arts and sciences located in colonial Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore.