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Texas Heritage National Bank recently presented a Presidential Scholarship to Emmalea Shaw, a sophomore at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ.†The gift will cover Shaw?s academic expenses at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ for the 2016-2017 academic year.†This is the first privately-funded†gift of its kind†that Honors Northeast has received.

Shaw had a stellar first year at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ. She won a third-place $150 Caldwell Award from the State of Texas, and a $200 poetry award.

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ will hold Last Chance Registration event August 15-19 in the Student Union Building (SUB). Faculty and staff will be on hand to help students take care of last-minute business before classes begin August 22. Registration will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to noon Friday.

?This is by far our busiest time of the year at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ. We have a lot of students who need to see advisors, register for classes and finish up the financial aid process,? Dr.

For the ninth consecutive year, Cypress Bank has presented a MacBook laptop for the use of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ honors students. This year?s recipient, Chesney Michael Davis, graduated third in his class from Pittsburg High School.

The board of the Bart Scharlach Memorial Foundation (BSMF) recently voted to move the management of the fund?s assets to the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Foundation. In doing so, the gift reached the established level to rename both the Business Technology (BT) Building and the Whatley Center Auditorium on the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ campus.

The BT Building is now named the Bart Scharlach Business Technology Building, and the Whatley Center Auditorium is the Scharlach Auditorium.

• Read more about Power outage planned for Aug. 5, registration moved to Whatley Center

The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Adult Education program†is now on Facebook! If you are a user of the social networking site, please take a moment to "like" their page to receive updates about what is happening with our GED and ESL students.