October 16, 2025
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
For the eighteenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of Northeast Texas Community College honors students. This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Jasmine Landaverde. Landaverde, who graduated from Mount Pleasant High School last spring, already has a lead role in a coming honors film, and has initiated a highly ambitious research project on local health struggles in an age of encroaching obesity.
Cypress Bank Assistant Vice President, Hernan L. Mata, presented Landaverde with this gift (pictured). Cypress Bank has five locations: the main bank is in Pittsburg; two are in Mount Pleasant. The two other branches are in Commerce, and Lone Star.