Egiht junior were elected April 8 to the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the prestigious, national honor society for college students.

The recipients were selected from a group of 17 juniors with high grade-point averages, Joanna Roche, Radcliffe staff assistant, said yesterday.

The winners--chosen by a committee of student, faculty and alumnae members of the society--all displayed intellectual ability, curiosity, thoroughness and breadth of knowledge, Roche said.

The juniors will be inducted May 2, when they will hear a lecture by Elizabeth Holtzman '62, the District Attorney of Brooklyn, N.Y.

The Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will elect 12 juniors next Wednesday.

The following juniors were elected Mildred H. An, a History and Literature concentrator from Winthrop House: Caren L. Grossbard, Psychology and Social Relations. Lowell: Pauline T Kim, Social Studies. Lowell: Janet B. Pascal, History and Literature, Dunster, Lin F. Shaw, Applied Mathematics. Mather, Judith H. Silverman, Mathematics. Winthrop: Deborah S. Stier, Psychology and Social Relations, South. Linda D. White, Biology, Winthrop.