Honors Northeast students and faculty†recently took their 14th†regional culture trip, a tradition that dates back to 2008. Students toured the Perot Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Nieman Marcus Department store, stopping for snacks and meals at Starbucks, Jorge?s Tex Mex, and the Twisted Root Burger.† Some students saw the Dallas Mavericks play the Denver Nuggets, and others went to the North Park Mall.†The trip was free for all honors students. Professors Shirley Clay, Sarah Rainey, and Andrew Yox drove vans.

This tradition has been established and funded by Dr.

Northeast Texas Community College Presidential Scholar, Kayleah Cumpian, of Mount Pleasant, narrowly edged out a junior from John Brown University to become the 2015 Student Representative of the Great Plains Honors Council (GBHC). She succeeds another former NTCC Presidential Scholar, Matthew Jordan, now a member of Texas Tech Honors.† This is the first time in the recorded 40-year history of the GPHC that the foremost student position of the association passed from one student to another of the same community college.

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Thanks to the internationally acclaimed,†Love is a Wild Assault,†by Elithe Kirkland, the tale of Harriet Potter Ames is perhaps the best-known legend of Northeast Texas.† Now for the first time on film, NTCC?s Webb Society and Honors Northeast are presenting a feature-length cinematic version of the story that will premiere in early 2015.† Until then, the film?s trailer is available for free on youtube:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roTYHq6gto4

Honors Scholar William Villalobos, from Winnsboro, is the producer of

Members of Honors Northeast recently previewed their coming film on Harriet Potter Ames to the fall meeting of the Native Plant Society of Texas in Texarkana. The student presenters, who also acted in the film, and in some cases, researched the original script, role-played their characters for the meeting.

Thanks to a generous gift from Jerald and Mary Lou Mowry, as well as other sources of support, members of Honors Northeast filmed the classic ?Harriet Potter Ames?

Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College, is pleased to announce its class of Presidential Scholars and Honors Scholars for the 2014-2015 academic year. The group of†22†students includes one incoming valedictorian, and two salutatorians along with returning Boe, Caldwell, and Star-Award winners.

Winners were pictured above:†Morgan Capps, Kelli Knepp, Zachary Davis, Miranda Mendoza, Tyler Reynolds, and Shelby Blevins

For those interested in what Northeast Texas was or could be, the Whatley Foyer of the campus of Northeast Texas Community College was again the place to be as local poets and commentators took the challenge to define the region.