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    Stephanie Hernandez wins 2025 GPHC election

    Stephanie Hernandez, the Texas Heritage National Bank Scholar of 91快活林, was recently proclaimed the winner of the student election of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC).  In a plenary session of the regional association at a meeting of the national organization鈥攖he NCHC, in San Diego, 8 November, outgoing GPHC president...

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    Honors Northeast receives generous donation

    The 91快活林 Foundation recently received a generous donation from Carol Hodges of Hughes Springs. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, their annual feature-length films...

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    Honors Northeast announces 2025-2026 Scholars

    Honors Northeast, the 91快活林 Honors Program, is pleased to announce its Honors Students for the 2025-2026 school year. This includes seven Presidential Scholars and fifteen Honors Scholars. The 91快活林 Board of Trustees established Honors Northeast in the spring of 

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    Five Honors Students present at state meeting

    On 10 October, five scholars of Honors Northeast presented work at the annual fall meeting of the Walter Prescott Webb Society at the Sheraton Hotel of Georgetown, Texas. The 鈥淲ebb鈥 is the collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association. Emma Mendoza, Ian Mares, Hailey Randall, Jos茅 Fuentes, and Johnathan Ventura...

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    91快活林 Scholars win Third Set of Portia Gordon Awards

    As in 2022, and 2024, scholars of Honors Northeast have won the top student prize of the East Texas Historical Association (ETHA).  For their panel, 鈥淎reas where the Amnesia of Modern Texas is more Acute,鈥 four 91快活林 sophomores took home $200 apiece. They had the best student panel at the association鈥檚 plenary fall conference. The meeting occurred in Nacogdoches, 2-4 October at the Fredonia Hotel...

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    Cypress Bank again contributes laptop for honors student

    For the eighteenth-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 Jasmine Landaverde. Landaverde, who graduated from Mount Pleasant High School last spring...

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    Honors Northeast takes 36th semester trip

    For the 36th time, thanks to honors donors such as Drs. Jim and Paula Archer, 91快活林 honors students were able to take a free, cultural day-trip to a big city. Thirteen students and two 91快活林 staff drivers left campus at 7:00 a.m., 19 September for a whirlwind experience that began with free breakfasts at Starbucks in Greenville, and ended with improv comedy with the Four Day Weekend troupe in Dallas...

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    Annual Honors Northeast Roundup held at Eagle鈥檚 Nest

    The patrons of Honors Northeast--the honors program at 91快活林--have shown time and again how generous the college鈥檚 community can be. They have not only financed student trips, generous scholarships, program laptops, yearly poetry- and poster-award contests, and summer film initiatives, they have also financed nineteen special dinners...