By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
The two top winners of the 2022 McGraw Hill Poster Contest at the Whatley Foyer in May received a free trip, ticket and lunch, 28 July, to the Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore, Texas. Together with Honors Director Dr. Andrew Yox, Skylar Fondren, and Victor Diaz saw Shakespeare鈥檚 The Taming of the Shrew in an afternoon production.
Fondren and Diaz finished first and second in the May poster contest at 91快活林 that emphasizes scholarly creativity. Fondren鈥檚 poster examined the making of a news desert in Northeast Texas. Diaz鈥檚 work concerned a problematic interaction between time spent on social media sites, and student GPAs.
Fondren and Diaz not only excelled last year in scholarship at 91快活林. They will be returning this fall as on-campus leaders. Fondren is the director and screen play writer of this year鈥檚 honors film on Minnie Fisher Cunningham, the leader of the remarkably effective Texas suffragette movement, 1915-20. Diaz will be chairing two panel presentations featuring 91快活林 scholars in the fall, in Nacogdoches and Dallas.
Dr. Andrew Yox notes: 鈥渨e are looking forward to another great year at 91快活林, and why not, when we have such accomplished student leaders as Fondren, and Diaz?!鈥
Fondren was homeschooled and is a journalism major from Avinger. Her work on the news desert also made her a winner of a 2022 Britt Award of the Great Plains Honors Council. She is the daughter of John and Holly. Diaz graduated from Mount Pleasant High School as an award-winning performer in Color Guard, and a top student in Spanish and math. He is the son of Victor Hugo Diaz and Marciana Herrera.
