Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Texas Heritage National Bank President Dwyatt Bell, Chairman of the Board, John Bryan, and Vice Chairman, Danny Bockmon formally have honored Jordan Whelchel with a full-tuition, fees and books scholarship for this coming year at Northeast Texas Community College. Whelchel, a former graduate of Daingerfield High School, and a current NTCC Presidential Scholar will inherit this prestigious designation from Cassidy Watkins, now at Texas State, and Emmalea Shaw, who is currently working toward her doctorate in physical therapy.
Whelchel attained an exemplary record in one year at NTCC. With a perfect GPA while taking rigorous honors seminars and majoring in physics, he has presented scholarly work in Austin, San Marcos, and at the Oklahoma State meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council. He played the role of Richard Rogers, Mary Kay’s son in the 2017 honors film, and served as Director of the most recent feature-length film of Honors Northeast, Pressed but Not Crushed: the UT Saga of Barbara Conrad. He will appear on a panel that will represent the Christ College Honors program of Valparaiso University, and NTCC this fall in Boston to discuss dramatic-program venues in honors.
Texas Heritage National Bank traces a lineage back to 1889 when it was called the Bank of Daingerfield. THNB has branches in Daingerfield, Omaha, Ore City, and Sulphur Springs.
“Jordan impresses me as someone who is intently interested not only in chemistry and physics,” notes Honors Director, Andrew Yox, “but in all the mathematical proofs, and assumptions of the sciences. He has been a great team player, and leader in honors, especially in one memorable case, when he prepared his peers for a professional presentation in Austin. We are thrilled that THNB could grant this special honor to him.”
