Cypress Bank donates laptop to Honors Northeast

For the seventh year in a row, Cypress Bank has funded a high-end laptop for the use of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ honors students. This year?s recipient, Gabriela Quezada, was an art student at the University of Maryland. She is a native of El Salvador.† Cypress, the oldest Camp-County based bank, has three other branches, in Mount Pleasant, Commerce and Lone Star.
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Northeast Texas Poetry Reading scheduled for Sept. 5

How can one best answer that enduring question: where are you from? How is Northeast Texas unique?† Does where we live even matter?

These and other questions will be at stake at the Seventh Annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. in†the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ.†The public is welcome to attend this free event.

The Reading will feature readings from the six winners of the 2014 Northeast Texas Poetry competition.
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Webb chapter Northeast earns best-in-state honorary cords

The Northeast Texas Webb Chapter, part of the collegiate student auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association, earned special gold-red-black cords for graduation this spring.† They were the only chapter in the state that won both a Caldwell Group Award, and a Chapter Award in the last two years.

Shown from left to right are:†Matthew Jordan†(the mainstay behind the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Honors/Webb Caddo Project), †Stephen Milburn†(a Texas Senator, Tom Connally in the Honors/Webb-produced Morris Sheppard Film),†Lauren Fennimore†(Pauline Patman in the Wright Patman film),†
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Poster Contest winners announced

John Updike once noted that anyone seriously interested in doing something better or right will be creative.† On the morning of May 2, while some students were studying for finals, 20 students†gathered†to compete in the Seventh Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest.†The event was held at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts.

Their object was to convey to well-educated adult judges from our community something that the latter did not already know.† Each of the twenty students had an idea they had developed.
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Two students win prestigious Jack Kent Cooke scholarship

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ students Matthew Jordan of Pittsburg and†Stephen Milburn of Mount Pleasant were recently awarded Jack Kent Cooke†Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarships. This prestigious award†covers up to $30,000 annually at the university of the student's choice†for up to three years. Only 85 students were selected from more than 3,500†applicants for this national honor.


† † † †This is the first time that two ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ students have received the†scholarship in the same year.
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Freshman Kayleah Cumpian earns numerous honors

At a time when ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ sophomore Presidential Scholars have been winning unprecedented prizes, Kayleah Cumpian of the freshman class has registered an unmatched series of wins as well.

Cumpian has recently applied for and won a scholarship to attend a workshop at Duke University entitled ?Applications of Mathematics to Physiology and Medicine.?† Cumpian will be one of a select group of scholars from around the country to win this opportunity, supported by the National Science Foundation, this May 21-28.

Cumpian?s competitive resume made her a finalis
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Two ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Honors students win Caldwell essay awards

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Honors students, Elyse Coleman of Gilmer and Kayleah Cumpian of Mount Pleasant, swept two of the four 2014 Caldwell essay awards given annually by the Webb division of the Texas State Historical Association (for freshmen and sophomores in the colleges and universities of Texas).

Both wrote papers that were also deemed the two 2014 Boe nominees for ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ by the Honors Committee, consisting of professors Joy Cooper, Robert Fenton, and David Rangel.† Each year the college submits two of its best 15-20 page essays by students to the Great Plains Honors Cou
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Noah Griffin and Matthew Jordan receive Guistwhite Scholarships

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ was the only community college in the nation to have two students selected as†2014†Phi Theta Kappa Guistwhite Scholarship recipients. Noah Griffin and Matthew Jordan, both of Pittsburg, were among the 20 students who received the honor this year.

They will be recognized and invited to a special reception during Phi Theta Kappa?s Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida, April 24-26.
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ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Webb Society presents new film about Wright Patman

Charles Shafer, in his memoir of life in Northeast Texas, noted that when he was young, Congressman Wright Patman seemed to speak to local residents with the voice of God?and he ?appeared about as old.?† Patman represented Northeast Texas in Washington D.C. from 1929 to 1976, and is commemorated today by the Bowie and Cass County lake that bears his name.

But what did his life and tenure say about our region?† What kind of man was he? This is a question that the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Webb Society has sought to answer in a new film about Wright Patman's life.
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