Madison Lee Blood was recently named the winner of the 2018 Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations.† Blood received a $200 check and certificate.† The former Big Sandy Valedictorian impressed all of her professors in her first semester at NTCC as fastidious, hard-working, and astute.† Her work on the emancipation of horses from war-pawns and draft slaves, to ?Black Beauty? prototypes has won entry for presentations this spring at the Walter Webb Society in San Marcos, and the Great Plains Honors Council meeting in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Honors Northeast has awarded the Chitsey Award annually since 2013.† Previous winners: Stephen Milburn (2013), Kelli Knepp (2014), Morgan Capps (2015) William Jones (2016), and Cassidy Watkins (2017) have all moved on from the Chitsey to regional or national awards such as the Jack Kent Cooke, Leaders of Promise, the GPHC Poster Award, and/or the Coca-Cola Scholarships.
The award also honors a former patron of Honors Northeast, Elizabeth Chitsey (1918-2013).† The Winnsboro-native had children and grandchildren who have served in the teaching profession in Northeast Texas, on every level, from pre-school, to college.† Each year since 2012, her family, which includes daughter, Dr. Mary Hearron, as well as other donors such as Don and Kathy Berthiaume, has generously supported this award and other social functions of Honors Northeast.
Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
