Presidential Scholar, Alyssa Breann Ochoa
Implicit Dream: The Texas Dairy Business and Its Long Road of Deferred Excellence.
NTCC Presidential Scholar, Alyssa Ochoa, argues that Texas' great dairy advantages have been masked by a long history of environmental difficulties. But these has been overcome, and modern Texas stands to excel in dairy as do the best dairy nations of Europe. Ochoa won first place in the 2023 McGraw Hill Poster Contest for this work, and presented her essay on this subject both at the 2023 Texas State Historical Association in El Paso, and the 2023 meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council in Wichita Falls, Texas.
(Photo courtesy of Mandy Smith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYtuj4wAyD8
Honors Scholar James Dickson on Tom Seabourne:
This presentation explores how NTCC’s Tom Seabourne has functioned as a “voice in the wilderness” for Texans of the late-twentieth, and early-twenty-first centuries. During an era when spotlight sports correlate with rising obesity, Seabourne’s message is doubly urgent.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M09l9QxML5c
This vodcast was given for the virtual meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council in March, 2021.
Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar Jaidyn Thompson on Harold Nix:
Harold Nix was a remarkable, powerful Daingerfield lawyer, who ended up owning the county’s more remarkable courthouse. But who was he? Thompson supplies perhaps the best scholarly account of Nix to date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2pej5QWiE&t=70s
This vodcast was given at the virtual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council in October of 2020
Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholar Katelyn Lester:
NTCC has had an active chapter of the Walter Prescott Webb Society since 2007. This is the collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association. But who was Walter Webb? This Caldwell-Award winning work explores the unique contribution of this Texas history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-0bWKrux4Q
This vodcast was given at the virtual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council in October of 2020
Presidential Scholar, Miguel Paco
On “How Barbara Conrad Made It.”
Honors Northeast Thank-You Dinner
28 March at the Selah Inn near
Mount Vernon, Texas 2019
(Barbara Conrad was from Queen City, Texas--51 miles East of NTCC, and Center Point, Texas in Camp County--10 miles south from NTCC. She was one of the first blacks to cross the color line in the international opera circuit).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PalLDqKgXlk&feature=youtu.be
