When I was a student at St. Olaf College, seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in two stages: a small handful in the fall and the remainder during graduation in the spring. I was privileged to be one of the few who were inducted in the fall of 1993, along with my dorm roommate. Both of us were invited to a reception at the president’s house, hosted by then–St. Olaf President Melvin George. It was the first and only time I had been in the house. I knew most of the other inductees from classes I had taken the previous three years, and I felt very honored to be among these students and become a member of Phi Beta Kappa. About 15 years later I was working in Denver, where there was a meeting of all members of Phi Beta Kappa living in the area. I went from a small group of students at St. Olaf College to meeting hundreds of professionals from all over the country who were all members of Phi Beta Kappa from their own colleges and universities. I then realized that I had been entered into a larger world which had connections beginning at St. Olaf College but not ending there.