September 5, 2014
Kelli Knepp, a sophomore honors scholar at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, was recently named the 2014 recipient of the $200 Chitsey Prize. This yearly prize is given in memory of Elizabeth Chitsey, whose daughters and grandchildren have had a far-reaching effect on ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Texas as educators and supporters of regional education on all levels.
The prize is unique in its efforts to identify a rising young scholar. It has been bestowed to honors students entering their sophomore year at NTCC who did not begin the preceding year as a Presidential Scholar.†Last year?s winner, Stephen Milburn went on from the Chitsey to a Phi Theta Kappa Star award, and a Jack Kent Cooke scholarship.
Knepp has maintained a 3.8 GPA at NTCC while being elected into honors and becoming a Phi Theta Kappa vice president.†She is a member of the executive committee of the 2014 Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø film project.††For this, she performed research in Austin this past summer which supplied the findings for the upcoming Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø film on Harriet Potter Ames, Texas lake country pioneer.†She also researched a ?Harriet alter-ego? Henrietta Embree, another Texas pioneer, and will appear in the film as the Embree character she researched.
Knepp is a resident of Linden and the daughter of Tim and Becky Knepp.
The prize is unique in its efforts to identify a rising young scholar. It has been bestowed to honors students entering their sophomore year at NTCC who did not begin the preceding year as a Presidential Scholar.†Last year?s winner, Stephen Milburn went on from the Chitsey to a Phi Theta Kappa Star award, and a Jack Kent Cooke scholarship.
Knepp has maintained a 3.8 GPA at NTCC while being elected into honors and becoming a Phi Theta Kappa vice president.†She is a member of the executive committee of the 2014 Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø film project.††For this, she performed research in Austin this past summer which supplied the findings for the upcoming Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø film on Harriet Potter Ames, Texas lake country pioneer.†She also researched a ?Harriet alter-ego? Henrietta Embree, another Texas pioneer, and will appear in the film as the Embree character she researched.
Knepp is a resident of Linden and the daughter of Tim and Becky Knepp.
