Submitted by Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Great Plains Honors Council President, Dr. Gary Wyatt, of Emporia University, announced on 25 October the winners of the association’s 2018 election. NTCC’s Hannah Joy Dickson won the student election. She will become the Executive Council’s Student Representative during the upcoming 2018 Boston meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC). Dickson is the fourth Presidential Scholar from NTCC to receive this honor. As a sophomore she came on top of an association usually dominated by university juniors and seniors. The GPHC is an association of 80 honors colleges and programs from Nebraska and Missouri, south to Texas. It is one of the six regional associations connected with the NCHC.
Dickson posed problems for competitors. She was not only one of the six winners of the exclusive Boe Award for her research essay on music last March at the GPHC meeting at Oklahoma State, she also is one of a stellar minority who made the 2018 program of the NCHC in Boston. She was also the winner of the Texas Dr. Mary Hood STAR scholarship last summer in the regional meeting of Phi Theta Kappa, the winner of an Eckman Award for excellence in NTCC’s Humusic Seminar last fall, and an award-winner in the 2017 Northeast Texas Poetry Contest. Last summer she served as Costume Director in the Honors film on Barbara Conrad, and played the part of Joann Thompson, a white ally of Conrad who represented the Christian student groups at the University of Texas in 1957.
“Hannah is a marvelous exemplar of commitment, zeal, and integrity” notes the Director of Honors Northeast, Dr. Andrew Yox. “I know I am one of several professors who have appreciated her quiet, virtuous character. I am impressed as well with her conscientious application of apt and arresting specifics in her essays, and her willingness to explore bold ideas.”
Dickson was homeschooled. She is the daughter of Tabitha and Robert Dickson of Pittsburg.
