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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.

Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery (right), of Scroggins, recently presented $800 to the†ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Foundation to help fund a special Honors Northeast project. Nita May (left), ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Director of Development, accepted the donation on behalf of the Foundation. The gift funds production costs for an upcoming film project titled†The Fergusons of Texas.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ?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:



Honors Scholar William Villalobos, from Winnsboro, is the producer

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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, 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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ was again the place to be as local poets and commentators took the challenge to define the region.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Texas A&M University-Commerce was a unique and rewarding research training opportunity for community college students interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).††Seventeen students from community colleges in Northeastern Texas and Southwestern Arkansas were selected for the 2014 joint program in chemistry, physics and astronomy.††Each participant worked directly under a faculty mentor on a collaborative research project that matched the sp