<p>Since I shy away from sharing this big news with some of our hometown acquaintances (I really hate to brag), I’ll share it with my CC friends. My daughter at Duke just found out that she made Phi Beta Kappa yesterday!!!
She was ecstatic, and her family is thrilled beyond belief! The initiation is in December, so we will be flying her back to Durham from her semester in NYC for the ceremony. Okay, I’m finished with the bragging. I just had to share the news with someone before I burst wide open!!!</p>
<p>Congratulations! What an accomplishment. Boy must you be proud! It’s so nice to hear good news for a change – thank you for sharing this.</p>
<p>Memie, congratulations to your daughter, and of course you can and should brag. That’s wonderful, exciting news, and it’s a pleasure to read such a happy post.</p>
<p>Congratulations, that’s a big honor.</p>
<p>Great news, Memie! 
And CC is the ideal place to boast a little about a hard-earned honor. I’m sure your friends and family are equally proud of her!</p>
<p>WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!! You GO, Memie’s DAUGHTER!!!</p>
<p>As a fellow Duke mom, I’m just BUSTIN’ MY BUTTONS!!! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>As a fellow PBK member, I am thrilled for both you and your daughter.</p>
<p>This is the place to share that wonderful news, Memie. Congratulations to your daughter on this wonderful accomplishment!</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for your kind comments. I knew I could count on you all to genuinely appreciate my daughter’s accomplishment. She’s just begun her junior year, so it really was a pleasant surprise to get invited to join so early.</p>
<p>One of the best things about cc is that it is okay to burst with rightful pride. Induction as a junior is quite special. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Unbelievably fantastic!!! Truly an honor worth screaming about. May I suggest locally you call up her old HS counselor, a teacher she was close to, etc? They always like to hear these kind of success stories and then let them do the bragging for you.</p>
<p>I have already sent e-mails to two of her favorite teachers, both of whom were thrilled for her. It is especially big news since she is the product of a very small public school in a rural county.</p>
<p>HOOAH!!!</p>
<p>That is great!</p>
<p>I bet word gets around and someone will approach you to tell you that they have heard. At that point, brag all you want.</p>
<p>congrats.</p>
<p>I thought most PBK inductions were in the spring? Not so?</p>
<p>Duke has one in the fall and another one in the spring.</p>
<p>what berurah said… ME TOO sends congrats! I’ve always thought CC was a perfect place to brag in a way that you can’t do in “real life.”</p>
<p>Congratulations!! A huge honor, especially as a junior and we DO enjoy hearing about these exciting honors.</p>
<p>You have every right to brag. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Any parent who does NOT brag about such a noteworthy accomplishment has something seriously wrong w/their m/paternal make-up! BRAG some more! We’re thrilled for you!!! (You know, the CC kids, in a way, belong to all of us…so we’re sharing your pride and your thrill in a cyber sort of way)…COngrats and huzzah and hurray!!!</p>