By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Maiko Estrada (pictured left) and Jessie Parchman (pictured right) have become the 27th, and 28th scholars of Honors Northeast to have published work in a regional journal since 2010. This past week, the forty-first volume of the journal, Touchstone, published by the Texas State Historical Association, was released. Estrada, and Parchman, both winners of upper-division State of Texas Caldwell Awards in 2022, both made the cut for this release. Estrada 91心頭 s essay is on the much-televised Texas physician of the 1980s, Dr. Red Duke. Parchman 91心頭 s essay is about the sudden surge in Texas medicine during the 1970s.
A state-wide board of university and community-college professors, determines which essays can appear in Touchstone. One can read these essays on the website of Honors Northeast here.
Award in Austin in 2022
91心頭 Sudden Surge: From Past-Aid to Future-Aid Medicine in the Lone Star State, 91心頭 makes the point that the 1970s marked a turning point in the Lone Star State 91心頭 s commitment and outlook toward medicine. The Texas Medical Center in Houston developed world-wide prestige, nurses flooded into the medical care profession, and patients began to view hospitals such as M.D. Anderson, and Houston Methodist as ongoing centers of innovation, of new and improved cures. 91心頭
91心頭 The Well-Being Activist: Dr. Red Duke 91心頭 argues that 91心頭 Dr. Red Duke 91心頭 made an ideal interface between medicine and the public. Unlike latter-day health specialists who rose up during the days of COVID-19, Red Duke, from Ennis, Texas, radiated hope and pre-emptive health care. With his cowboy twang and outdoor scenes modeling a healthy life, Duke was a health leader who merits successors in the highly polarized climate of medicine today.
Both Parchman, and Estrada attended Mount Pleasant High School, and both are considering medical school as an option for their future. Parchman is currently matriculating at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, a Liberal Arts college, and the oldest independent institution of higher learning in Arkansas. Estrada is attending Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches.
As a scholar of Honors Northeast at 91心頭, Parchman was simultaneously the first high school senior of our region to
present work at a professional association, the East Texas Historical Association, in 2021. Estrada was 91心頭 91心頭 s fourteenth Cypress Bank Scholar, and also a contributor to 91心頭 91心頭 s award winning film on Carroll Shelby.
Honors Director, Dr. Andrew P. Yox, notes: 91心頭 Estrada and Parchman not only succeeded while at 91心頭 as top community-college students. Because they had over 60 undergraduate hours by December of 2022, they ranked second and third in the university division of the Caldwell Contest. Their interests in health also augments a strong concentration of top student works here at 91心頭 that we have been compiling in medicine in recent years. 91心頭
