Thanks to the Friends of Honors Northeast, Northeast Texas Community College Honors students and professors were able to take their eighth annual cultural fall trip to Dallas/Fort Worth September 18.
The group of 23 students and four professors were able to enjoy the Greenville Starbucks, visit the beautiful Dallas Arboretum, lunch at the 43 CafÈ by Southern Methodist University (SMU), visit the George Bush Presidential Museum, experience an organ recital by the SMU organist, Benjamin Kolodziej at the Perkins Chapel, dine at the Main Street CafÈ at Garland, and watch a theatre production of the†Spider?s Web†by Agatha Christie.† All meal, museum, and entertainment expenses were covered by the program?s generous donors.† All of the major excursions linked into classes currently being taken by the college?s honors students?Biology, Texas History, Music Appreciation, and Modern World History.
All students in attendance were members of Honors Northeast.† In the photo above from left to right: Nathan Johnson, Hector Zuniga, Isaac Burris, Kason Newman, Cruz Gallegos, Jacob Smith, Tanner Jones, Alecia Spurlin, Genesis Quezada, Jessica Velazquez, Morgan Capps, Marisol Bautista, Cailee Davidson, William Jones, Angelica Fuentes, William Villalobos, Presley McClendon, Melody Mott, Elizabeth Griffin, Laney Jordan, Dr. Melissa Fulgham, Cassia Rose, Emmalea Shaw, Sarah Rainey, Dr. Mary Hearron, Steven Vaughn, and Dr. Andrew Yox.† Twenty-three of the twenty-five students in the program attended the trip.
Professors Fulgham, Hearron, Rainey and Yox drove the group in four SUVs.
Dr. Jim Archer initiated the tradition of biannual honors trips in 2008, and along with his wife, Paula, have financed most of them.† Both of the Archers also host the Honors Community in an annual Honors Roundup Dinner at their Lone Star Cattle Company Ranch, that took place this year on September 12.
