Honors Northeast scholars win poster awards

The Great Plains Honors Council, an association of eighty honors colleges and programs from Nebraska to Texas, hosted a poster contest featuring four different areas of scholarly research at its annual meeting.

Honors Northeast (the honors program at 星空传媒) scholars Kayleah Cumpian, Tyler Reynolds and Elyse Coleman took three of the four prizes, with an honors student from Western Missouri University, Kelly Cochran, winning the fourth award.

Cumpian?s poster dealt with her research last summer for an REU internship at Texas A&M University-Comme
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NTCC to host annual poster contest

The eighth annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest is set for Friday, April 24 at 9:30 a.m. in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at 星空传媒. This contest recognizes and rewards creative student scholarship in Northeast Texas. Area high school seniors, college and university students are welcome to compete. The first place prize is $400 with an added McGraw-Hill textbook coupon for $150.
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Two Presidential Scholars win essay awards

星空传媒 Presidential Scholars Isaac Burris and Morgan Capps both received top awards during the recent meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)鈥 in Corpus Christi.

At a session of the Walter Webb Society on March 7, the collegiate auxiliary of the TSHA, Capps won second鈥爌lace and $300 for her essay on Ma and Pa Ferguson, a Texas gubernatorial couple during the early 20th century.鈥 Isaac Burris won fourth鈥爌lace 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,鈥燡unior Class President of Mount Pleasant High School,鈥 and鈥燛lizabeth Griffin, a presence recently in the local theatre scene, were recognized in a luncheon at 星空传媒 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,"鈥燚r.
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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.鈥 In 1959 it was immortalized in an international best-seller,鈥Love is a Wild Assault,鈥by Elithe Kirkland.鈥 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,鈥犘强沾'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鈥爎ecently took their 14th鈥爎egional 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.鈥 Some students saw the Dallas Mavericks play the Denver Nuggets, and others went to the North Park Mall.鈥燭he 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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Kayleah Cumpian named to Great Plains Honors Council

星空传媒 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.鈥 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.鈥犫燙assia 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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