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Pictured is Isaac Griffin (left) with NTCC President Dr. Brad Johnson.

�������� Presidential Scholar Isaac Griffin has added another award to his growing list of accomplishments as he recently received a Boe Award from the Great Plains Honors Council.

"Isaac†is becoming†the most decorated student in NTCC history.†Students and professors have been inspirited by his performance.†That he has found time to maintain a 4.0 GPA while staying so involved in Phi Theta Kappa and NTCC Honors is all the more amazing," Dr. Andrew Yox, NTCC Honors Director, said.

The Boe honor comes just after Griffin received the prestigious Guistwhite and Coca-Cola†Gold†Scholar†awards earlier†this year.†The President of the Great Plains Honors Council, Dr. Kenneth Buckman of the University of Texas, presented†Griffin his plaque and check for $200 at the†council?s†plenary banquet on March 30 in Kansas City, Missouri.

The NTCC Honors program will also win $500 for this award. Griffin's paper on the political realignment of Texas was deemed one of the three top scholarly essays by a freshman or sophomore in a college or university.††The Great Plains Honors Council includes 80 Honors programs and colleges†in the states ofNebraska,†Kansas, Oklahoma,†Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas.

Griffin argued that Texas, once a solid Democratic state,†changed to a reliable Republican state largely through the intervention of Evangelical leaders.††Griffin goes way back before the revolution of the 1980s and shows how the Fort Worth Pastor, Frank Norris, helped first put Texas in the Republican column for the first time in the 1928 election, when Texans endorsed Herbert Hoover.††He went on to show how leading Evangelicals stigmatized the Democrats as liberals who were essentially anti-Christian.

Griffin is a sophomore at NTCC. He has accepted a†full-ride†scholarship to the University of Texas ? Arlington where he†will be a member of the Honors College.†He††plans to pursue his†interests in political science and communication at UTA, with an eye to moving into divinity or law school.