Two Presidential Scholars win essay awards

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Presidential Scholars Isaac Burris and Morgan Capps both received top awards during the recent meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)† in Corpus Christi.

At a session of the Walter Webb Society on March 7, the collegiate auxiliary of the TSHA, Capps won second†place and $300 for her essay on Ma and Pa Ferguson, a Texas gubernatorial couple during the early 20th century.† Isaac Burris won fourth†place and $75 for his essay on the dynamics of Sam Houston?s friendship with his slave, Jeff Hamilton.
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Honors Northeast highlights high school standouts

Nayeli Fuentes,†Junior Class President of Mount Pleasant High School,† and†Elizabeth Griffin, a presence recently in the local theatre scene, were recognized in a luncheon at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ March 4 as regional high school standouts.

"It was inspiriting to have two students together who have done so much to raise the bar on excellence in Northeast Texas,"†Dr.
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Honors Northeast to premier original Harriet Potter Ames film

Perhaps the most revered and controversial Northeast Texas legend of all time is the story of Harriet Potter Ames.† In 1959 it was immortalized in an international best-seller,†Love is a Wild Assault,†by Elithe Kirkland.† It is a tale with Shakespearean dimensions that plays out against the backdrop of the Texas Revolution, and Caddo Lake.

In a cinematic version of the story,†ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½'s Walter Webb Society under the auspices of Honors Northeast will re-present the story on Friday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m.
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Honors Northeast takes cultural trip

Honors Northeast students and faculty†recently took their 14th†regional culture trip, a tradition that dates back to 2008. Students toured the Perot Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Nieman Marcus Department store, stopping for snacks and meals at Starbucks, Jorge?s Tex Mex, and the Twisted Root Burger.† Some students saw the Dallas Mavericks play the Denver Nuggets, and others went to the North Park Mall.†The trip was free for all honors students. Professors Shirley Clay, Sarah Rainey, and Andrew Yox drove vans.

This tradition has been established and funded by Dr.
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Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery help fund NTCC Honors project

Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery (right), of Scroggins, recently presented $800 to the†ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Foundation to help fund a special Honors Northeast project. Nita May (left), NTCC Director of Development, accepted the donation on behalf of the Foundation. The gift funds production costs for an upcoming film project titled†The Fergusons of Texas.
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Kayleah Cumpian named to Great Plains Honors Council

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Presidential Scholar, Kayleah Cumpian, of Mount Pleasant, narrowly edged out a junior from John Brown University to become the 2015 Student Representative of the Great Plains Honors Council (GBHC). She succeeds another former NTCC Presidential Scholar, Matthew Jordan, now a member of Texas Tech Honors.† This is the first time in the recorded 40-year history of the GPHC that the foremost student position of the association passed from one student to another of the same community college.
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Honors Northeast presents film to Twentieth Century Club

Honors Northeast recently presented their original film on the life of Wright Patman to members of the Twentieth Century Club in Pittsburg. Several of the women present could recall interactions with the long-term Northeast Texas Congressman (1929-1976) who was the film?s subject.††Cassia Rose, of Winnsboro, also presented the trailer for the group?s upcoming film on Harriet Potter Ames, in which she stars as the Texas Lake Country heroine.
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NTCC Webb Society releases film trailer

Thanks to the internationally acclaimed,†Love is a Wild Assault,†by Elithe Kirkland, the tale of Harriet Potter Ames is perhaps the best-known legend of Northeast Texas.† Now for the first time on film, NTCC?s Webb Society and Honors Northeast are presenting a feature-length cinematic version of the story that will premiere in early 2015.† Until then, the film?s trailer is available for free on youtube:



Honors Scholar William Villalobos, from Winnsboro, is the producer of
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Honors Northeast previews new film

Members of Honors Northeast recently previewed their coming film on Harriet Potter Ames to the fall meeting of the Native Plant Society of Texas in Texarkana. The student presenters, who also acted in the film, and in some cases, researched the original script, role-played their characters for the meeting.

Thanks to a generous gift from Jerald and Mary Lou Mowry, as well as other sources of support, members of Honors Northeast filmed the classic ?Harriet Potter Ames?
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