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The ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Faculty Senate held its 25^th Annual Student Awards Banquet†Thursday night at the Region 8 service center. This annual event allows the faculty to acknowledge exceptional students and alumni for their contributions to NTCC and beyond.

The President?s Academic Excellence Award recognizes students who have excelled academically. Those receiving this award included:

Students in the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Agriculture Department won big last week as they took home multiple awards from the Texas Junior College Agriculture Association (TJCAA) Competition at Sam Houston State University.

Michael Rundle placed third in Horticulture Quiz, third in Wildlife Quiz and second in Agronomy. Rundle also served as Vice President of State Officers at the event.

Submitted by Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø:

Lone Star College in the greater Houston has over 90,000 students, and may be the eighth-largest institution of higher learning in the United States.† It has won three of the 105 prestigious Guistwhite Scholarships of Phi Theta Kappa that have been bestowed since the award?s website began recording this information in 2011.† Mesa Community College, a bellwether two-year institution in Arizona, has less students, but has gained four winners.

Alpha Mu Chi, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø?s chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, successfully campaigned for the Texas Region District III Vice-President position at the regional convention earlier this spring. After the chapter won the position, elections were held within the chapter to determine which member would represent the chapter. Chesney Davis won that election and will represent the chapter as Vice President.

Thanks to a generous grant, creative conceptualizing, and a good amount of student-to-faculty interfacing, 12 members of Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø won invitations to present work at the recent meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC) at Lamar University in Beaumont.†The GPHC has functioned since 1975 as the regional arm of the National Collegiate Honors Council, joining university and college honors programs from Nebraska and Missouri to Texas.

Three NTCC scholars gave formal oral reports.†Cassidy Watkins, from Daingerfield, featured segments of th

²ÝÁñÉçÇø student, Cassidy Watkins, was recently named the winner of the 2016-2017 Chitsey Award, granted annually to the student of Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø who most exceeded expectations. Dr. Mary Hearron (right) recently presented Watkins with this $200 award.

Watkinswas the 2016 Salutatorian of Daingerfield High School.† She has excelled in her two honors seminars, and in her other NTCC classes to date.† She is also the producer of the 2017 Honors film on Sam Houston, and the exodus of the Texas Cherokee.

Theatre ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, the student theatre group of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, will present variety of monologues, scenes, songs, dramatic readings and a short play on-stage in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts April 27-30. The Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday matinee is at 2:05 p.m.

?We're trying something a little different for our last show of the school year.† I'm excited for our audience to see the scope of talent ²ÝÁñÉçÇø students have,? Martin Holden, Director of Theatre ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, said.

The NTCC College Store will be closed April 17-21 while they move to their new location in the Student Union Building.†The copy center will also be closed. Outgoing mail will still be metered and a box will be placed in the Student Services mail room. Students may purchase scantrons, blue books and pencils in the Student Services building during the closure.

The ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Associate Degree Nursing program recently inducted 28 students into its Gamma Omicron Chapter of the Alpha Delta Nu Honor Society. Alpha Delta Nu recognizes the academic excellence of students in the study of Associate Degree Nursing. The selective society requires that students have at least a 3.0 GPA in nursing classes and be recommended by faculty. The 2017 inductees are pictured above (from left). Front row is Iris Reyes, Brittany Aguilar, MaDora Gallander, Saidie Davis, Whitney Hall, Ariel Gage, Latisha Roberts and Lisa McCuller (faculty).

The Woodmen of the World organization recently presented a check for $25,000 to the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Foundation.† These funds will be used to establish The Beau Brummell Woodmen of the World Endowed Scholarship, which will provide an annual scholarship for a local student attending NTCC each year. The Beau Brummell Woodmen of the World Scholarship is in memory of Brummell, a very dedicated and longtime member of the Camp County Chapter of Woodmen of the World. Dr.