ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ’s first Jack Kent Cooke reunion
Pictured (from left): Daniel Landaverde, Aaliyah Avellaneda, Clara Ramirez, and Brenda Godoy.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
SMU’s DeGolyer Library donates books to ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ
Pictured: Coming ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Presidential Scholar, and Mount Pleasant HS Salutatorian, Perla Guzman with some of the books donated by SMU.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Bonnie Spencer Awards announced
Pictured: Front row (from left) Natalie Garza (3rd), Aubrey Watkins (2nd), and Andrew Higgins (1st). Back row: Melody Mott (Mentor, PTK-Honors Coordinator who adjudicated the contest), Dr. Melissa Fulgham, and Dr. Andrew Yox.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Winners of annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest announced
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
On 5 May, for the fifteenth time, community judges and ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ students converged on the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ for an annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest. The scholarly competition was enabled again by generous grants, from Beverly Kelley of Mount Vernon, and the McGraw-Hill Education Corporation—through the special work of Bill Welsh, and Casey Slaght who work in the corporate office in Dubuque, Iowa.
Entries sought for annual Bonnie Spencer Awards
Pictured: 2021 winners with History Faculty: front Row: Fatima Fuentes, Erika Alvarado, and Davin Whatley: Back row: ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ history professors--Dr. Andrew P. Yox, Dr. Melissa Fulgham and James McGregor
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Skylar Fondren named Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar
Skylar Fondren, a Presidential Honors Scholar at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ, has been named a 2023 Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar and will receive a $1,500 scholarship.
Skylar was named a Leader of Promise by Phi Theta Kappa in 2021 and has been very active in Honors Northeast, Phi Theta Kappa, and ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ’s Journalism program.
Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest planned for May 5th
Pictured: Daniel Landaverde, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ McGraw-Hill Competitor in 2019-2020. He is a recent Winner of a Jack Kent Cooke and is currently an associate with Marsh, a global leader in insurance brokerage and risk consulting
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Honors students present at the Meeting of the GPHC
Pictured: Neida Perez, Dr. Andrew Yox, Aubrey Watkins, Alyssa Ochoa, and Sam Pollan.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox
Honors Scholars win awards at Webb/TSHA meeting in El Paso
Pictured (from left) is: Sam Pollan, Alyssa Ochoa, Michelle Calderon, Skylar Fondren, and Aubrey Watkins.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Last weekend in El Paso, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ honors-student essayists won their 31st and 32nd Caldwell essay awards in Texas history. The film effort of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ’s Webb Society and Honors Northeast won its fifth $600 Chapter Project Award, for the best creation in Texas history performed by any collegiate or university group.
Texas Suffragette: The Minnie Fisher Cunningham Story premieres March 24th
Film Poster Created by Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholar, Monserrat Rivero-Sanchez
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Honors Northeast and the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Webb Society to feature the story of a surprise success—the victory of the Texas Suffragettes in 1919, at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ
