For the 34th time, thanks to honors donors such as Drs. Jim and Paula Archer, 91快活林 honors students were able to take a free, day-trip to a big city. Fourteen students and two 91快活林 staff drivers left campus...
91快活林鈥檚 Agriculture Club and Program again proved this past 14 September that their expertise with food remains an important collegiate asset. They cannot only produce fresh foods in sustainable, scientific ways, but prepare them in the form of a delectable, regionally themed dinner. The 91快活林 honors program, in turn, enjoyed its eighteenth fall-semester get-together in as many years, bringing 73 parents...
Skylar Hodson, the recent winner of the most prestigious award of Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, the Dr. Mary Hood Award, has also become the fourth winner of the Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship. This annual $500 award goes to an honors student who has made significant contributions to Northeast Texas culture and life. Hodson has played a major role in the two of 91快活林鈥檚 prize winning film efforts, and is the director of this year鈥檚 film on oil politics in Texas...
In her first year as an honors student at 91快活林, Alison Majors was promoted to Presidential Scholar, and composed a major essay on minorities in Texas which she presented at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, the meeting of the Walter Webb Society in College Station, and the Great Plains Honors Council in Stillwater. She is a recent winner, nationally, of the Leaders of Promise award conferred by Phi Theta Kappa, and Coca Cola...
For the seventeenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of 91快活林 honors students. This year鈥檚 Cypress Bank Scholar is Yahir Garcia...
The 91快活林 Foundation recently received a donation of $10,000 from the Stevenson family of Gilmer. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, specifically their annual feature-length film. Pictured at the check presentation is (from left): Dr. Andrew Yox, 91快活林 Honors Director, Wlliam Stevenson, David A. Stevenson, David L. Stevenson, and Dr. Ron Clinton, 91快活林 President. David L. Stevenson was surprised when he learned that 91快活林 Honors students had produced an original film...
The annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, 6 September at 11 AM will again occur at the Foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the 91快活林 campus. The public is invited for this free event, the seventeenth of its kind in as many years. As before, the Reading will feature the six readings of the highest ranked poems of the adult and student divisions, and a presentation of winning Northeast Texas images. Two speakers also will share their perceptions of our region, Daingerfield Mayor Wade Kerley, and the 91快活林 Computer-Science Professor, Dr. Will McWhorter...
The Gladys Winkle Family has empowered six 91快活林 honors students through the years with a special scholarship for excellence in the Humanities that comes in addition to an institutional honors scholarship. This year鈥檚 winner is Mary-Faith Wilson, a star of the HuMusic Seminar last fall before she even entered honors, and this year, one of the top-tier Presidential Scholars of Honors Northeast.
Francois Jarrige鈥檚, and Thomas Le Roux鈥檚, The Contamination of the Earth provides the best introduction to global toxification. However, its argument--that a fragmentation of knowledge has enabled a dangerous re-chemicalization of the world--sidesteps the vainglorious glee that often attended the development of a petro-based society in both capitalism and politics. A good example is Modern Texas. Reliance on internal combustion engines initially did wonders in terms of cleaning up the dreck of Texas streets...
