Samford University’s J. Roderick Davis has been named the nation’s top Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) faculty adviser from among counterparts at 300 college circles nationwide.
Davis, English professor and retired dean of Samford’s Howard College of Arts and Sciences, received the ODK Robert W. Bishop Faculty Adviser Award during a student convocation at Samford Feb. 8. He has been an adviser to the Samford circle of the leadership honor society since 1997 and became a member as a student in 1956.
Davis was presented the framed certificate and accompanying $500 cash award by Samford ODK co-adviser Betsy Holloway and circle President Mary Kathryn Covert.
An Albertville native, Davis is a member of Baptist Church of the Covenant, Birmingham.
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