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What nurses call “Code Blue” rings into the minds of attendants working the “covid floor” of the Titus Regional Medical Center. 91������ý honors student, Maritza Quinones responds, putting on PPE (personal protective equipment) which includes a hair net, a surgical mask, an N-95 mask, a plastic face shield, two pairs of gloves, and foot covers.  (Such “equipment” makes one very hot). A Certified Nursing Assistant planning one day to become an OB-GYN, Quinones has been working 40-60 hours a week during the summer at the hospital, and spending almost half that time in the COVID-19 ward.

Four students at Northeast Texas Community College were among the 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named as 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars and will each receive a $1,000 scholarship.   The 91������ý students receiving this honor include Carolina Alcocer-Salas, of Chapel Hill, Hannah Barnes of Marietta, Jaidyn Thompson of Daingerfield, and Maritza Quinones of Mount Pleasant.

Would you like to learn more about Phi Theta Kappa at 91������ý? If so, please join our Alpha Mu Chi chapter for a Virtual Mixer event! 

Four members of Alpha Mu Chi, 91������ý’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, won 4 of 13 prestigious Texas regional scholarships given out the weekend of the Texas Honors Institute. The Dr. Mary Hood Texas STAR Scholarships are available to members of Phi Theta Kappa throughout the state of Texas. 

Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas. Adult poetry winners will take home $100 and $50 for first and second place. Full-time student poetry winners for first, second, third, and fourth places will receive $400, $300, $200 and $100 respectively (last year's winner, Mercedes Collins, is pictured above). For images, first place will earn $70, second, $20, and third, $10.  Anyone of any age is welcome to enter the contest.  Any genre of poem, and at any length, can compete.

The Work4College farm crew has been working hard to safely care for our facility, animals and plants!  They will continue their drive-thru lunch and farmer's market for the next two Thursdays (July 30 and August 6). The crew would love to have you stop by and check out their offerings from 10 am to 2 pm. The lunch menu is TBD. Produce, canned items, eggs, and plants available at the market.  

In light of rising cases of COVID-19 in the area and in compliance with the latest orders from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Northeast Texas Community College has made the decision to cancel the in-person summer graduation ceremony originally planned for August 14.

Christi Denney recently presented the Northeast Texas Community College Foundation with $2,000 to support the Nita DeWoody Memorial Scholarship fund. The money was raised through the Jingle Bell Jog (5K) held last December in Pittsburg, which Denney organized in memory of her late sister, DeWoody. 

The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a $20,000 gift from the East Texas Communities Foundation (ETCF). The funds were made available to the College by the ETCF through a planned gift from the estate of the late Burt and Nancy Marans, formerly of Pittsburg.

I would like to take a minute to make you aware of our Eagle Food Pantry located at the Wesley Fellowship building. This program is set up by the Social Work Program to help meet any food insecurity needs of all our currently enrolled 91������ý students and their families.