Some 132 Penn State Altoona students accepted membership and were initiated into National Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for First Year Students. Founded in the spring of 1924 at the University of Illinois, Alpha Lambda Delta is a national honor society that recognizes and encourages academic excellence among first-year students. Today, Alpha Lambda Delta has more than 245 chapters throughout the nation and offers more than $120,000 each year in scholarships and fellowships to its members. Membership in Alpha Lambda Delta is open to full-time freshmen who earn a scholastic average of 3.5 or better at a four-year college or university and are in the top 20 percent of their class. The new initiates to Alpha Lambda Delta at Penn State Altoona have taken an oath to continue to "maintain high scholarship and to use my education for the benefit of my community, my nation and the world in which we live." For more information about Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for First Year Students, visit the national Web site at http://www.nationalald.org