page_title: Omicron Delta Kappa
section_title: Honorary members
hierarchical_section_title: Omicron Delta Kappa / Notable members / Honorary members
caption_attribution_description: English: Administration building at the University of Maryland, College Park, seen in morning light at the end of the reflecting pool on the Mall.
context_page_description: Omicron Delta Kappa, also known as The Circle and ODK, is a national leadership honor society in the United States, with chapters, known as circles, at more than three hundred college campuses. It was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, by fifteen student and faculty leaders. The society recognizes achievement in five areas: scholarship; athletics; campus and community service, social or religious activities, and campus government; journalism, speech and the mass media; and creative and performing arts. Some circles of ΟΔΚ are quasi-secret, in that newly selected members remain undisclosed for some time.
  Membership in the Omicron Delta Kappa Society is regarded as one of the highest collegiate honors that can be awarded, in the tradition of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. To be selected as a member of ΟΔΚ, one must stand among the top thirty-five percent of all students at that particular institution and hold a leadership role in one of the society's five areas of recognition.
context_section_description: Walter Williams – founded the Alpha Xi Circle at Missouri
  Franklin D. Roosevelt – University of Maryland, 1940
  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax – University of Maryland, 1941
  Hodding Carter – University of the South, 1953
  Jonas E. Salk – University of Pittsburgh,1954
  Wehrner von Braun – Grove City College, 1961
  Joseph I. Goldstein – Washington and Lee University, 1961
  Bob Hope – Tulane University, 1964
  Jimmy Carter – Georgia State University, 1972
  Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick – Louisiana State University, 1968
  Walter Cronkite – Florida Southern College, 1979
  Walter Mondale – University of South Carolina, 1981
  Gerald R. Ford – Florida Southern College, 1984
  F. Story Musgrave – University of Kentucky, 1984
  Winston S. Churchill III – Florida Southern College, 1990
  Margaret Thatcher – Harding University, 1995
  George H. W. Bush – Harding University, 1997
  Hillary Clinton – Alfred University, 2000
  Nello L. Teer - Duke University, 1957
caption: The Omicron Delta Kappa fountain on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park honors ODK members of the campus's chapter, including honorary member Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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