Thanks to a generous grant, creative conceptualizing, and a good amount of student-to-faculty interfacing, 12 members of Honors Northeast at Northeast Texas Community College won invitations to present work at the recent meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC) at Lamar University in Beaumont.†The GPHC has functioned since 1975 as the regional arm of the National Collegiate Honors Council, joining university and college honors programs from Nebraska and Missouri to Texas.
Three NTCC scholars gave formal oral reports.†Cassidy Watkins, from Daingerfield, featured segments of the recent honors film production on the Texas Cherokee.†Kassandra Martinez and William Fox, whose works were deemed by the NTCC Honors Committee as the best college essays in 2016, also spoke in sessions well-attended sessions.†Martinez spoke on her Spencer award-winning work on the great Northeast Texan populist, Cyclone Davis, and Fox delivered his Caldwell-Award winning appraisal of the varieties of racism that caused the exodus of the Texas Cherokee.
Nine scholars presented posters of work compiled last Fall Semester in specialized Honors seminars. In the competitive division, Melody Mott presented on the theology of Isaac Newton, Emmalea Shaw on Title IX and female sports in Northeast Texas, Alecia Spurlin on the use of music therapy, and Leivy Zuniga on the ?Hang-?em-High? Governors of Texas,† Alan Shivers, George Bush, and Rick Perry.
Five NTCC scholars exhibited their work for the first time, in the non-competitive division of the GPHC conference. This included Alicia Cantrell?s poster on the Politics of Sassiness, Chesney Davis? work on the Texas contribution in World War II, Brenda Godoy?s poster on the hierarchies of the Texas Revolution, Rachel Jordan?s Caldwell-Award winning work on art in 20th century Texas, and Adriana Rodriguez?s work on the Compromise of 1850.
?In terms of student scholarship, this was one of the most impressive GPHC conferences ever.†All of our students presented with verve, and with a conceptual edge which I like to think marks our scholarly work here at NTCC,? Dr. Andrew Yox, NTCC Honors Director, said.
