Contact Media Contact Julia Waters OCM (765) 455-9414 julwater@iuk.edu Terri Hellman OCM (765) 455-9409 tlhellma@iuk.edu

Pi Lambda Theta is pleased to announce that Elizabeth M. Douglass has been elected president of its international board of directors.

Douglass was appointed to the PLT board in 1997 to fill a vacancy in a student vice president position. She has served on the board ever since, being elected to a second term as student vice president and then serving as treasurer, vice president, and first vice president. Douglass will serve as president for the 2007-2009 term, and could be reelected for one additional term.

Douglass is a teacher and co-chair of the gifted-and-talented department at the Western School Corporation in Russiaville, Indiana. She holds a master of arts in educational administration and supervision from Ball State University and a bachelor of science in education from Indiana University Kokomo, where she is president of PLT’s Gamma Gamma chapter. She has served as president of the IU Kokomo Alumni Board, and in 2001 she was named a recipient of the Indiana University Alumni Association President’s Award.

A budding partnership between PLT and the National Staff Development Council is at the heart of Douglass’ plan for her first term as president. “I expect that two years from now we will have assembled a large array of exciting professional development opportunities that will be available to our members on very favorable terms. Beyond that, I hope I can use my position to make some of those opportunities available at my own school, and that my colleagues and I will be able to use them to refine our practice and serve our students even better than we do now.”

Pi Lambda Theta was founded in 1910. Its mission is to honor outstanding educators and inspire their leadership on critical education issues. The most selective society of its kind, PLT extends membership to students and professionals who satisfy academic eligibility requirements, as well as to professional educators who have earned a recognized award for excellence or certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.