Ashley Laureano (center)†of Mount Pleasant, was recently†presented with the J. Travis Jackson†GED†Scholarship during the†2014†GED graduation ceremony hosted by the Northeast Texas Community College Adult Education Department.†This $500 award is given by the Mount Pleasant Rotary Club in memory of Jackson, who was a long time adult educator in Titus County.†Making the presentation is Malik Latif (left), President of the Mount Pleasant Rotary Club and Carolyn Pope, GED Instructor.

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John Updike once noted that anyone seriously interested in doing something better or right will be creative.† On the morning of May 2, while some students were studying for finals, 20 students†gathered†to compete in the Seventh Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest.†The event was held at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts.

Their object was to convey to well-educated adult judges from our community something that the latter did not already know.† Each of the twenty students had an idea they had developed.

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Richard Perryman, (pictured, left) recently presented a $3,000 check to Dr. Jonathan McCullough, Vice President for Advancement, Northeast Texas Community College.† The funds will be used to underwrite the NTCC Foundation Annual Scholarship Reception.† The reception is held on the NTCC campus each fall and allows scholarship recipients to meet the donors who made their award possible. In addition to helping NTCC with scholarships themselves, Richard and Margaret Perryman have been underwriting the Scholarship Reception for more than 10 years.

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received an $1,800 gift from the Lions Club of Pittsburg. The donation will provide three $600 scholarships to NTCC students from Camp County. Lions Club President, Allen Weatherford (right) is pictured making the donation to Dr. Jonathan McCullough, NTCC Vice President for Advancement. For information about this or other scholarship opportunities at NTCC, contact McCullough at 903-434-8115.

The next NTCC Farmer's Market is Friday, May 16!

It seems ironic that as little as a generation ago, my grandparents managed to feed their family of eight, either by fishing, hunting, gathering and/or subsistence farming and yet most of our so-called technologically advanced people today would starve if we had to eat only what we could grow. I can remember that my grandparents hardly ever made a weekly trip to the store to purchase any food product that they could grow on their farm.

Northeast Texas Community College recently inducted 27 new students into the Alpha Mu Chi chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.

Established in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society serves to recognize and encourage the academic achievement of two-year college students and provide opportunities for individual growth and development through honors, leadership and service programming.

Students who had portraits taken before graduation on May 10 can now download their complimentary photo online at www.ntcc.edu/may14grad. The photos are viewable in a Flickr gallery. Below are instructions for downloading the full-size image:

1. Visit the link and click on your photo

2. Look to the right of the page and click the "more actions" button (looks like three small circles).

3.

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