Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Ag Club Meeting

jminter@ntcc.edu — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:35:35 +0000

Ag Club Meeting jminter@ntcc.edu Tue, 02/25/2025 - 9:35 am

Room#

Ag Complex 117

Event Details

Join the ��Ƶ��ý Ag Club for food, fellowship, and discussions on all things agriculture. Meetings are held every other Thursday from 12:25 PM to 1:15 PM in the Agriculture Complex and are open to members, guests, faculty, and staff.

Who Can Attend?

Members eat free
Guests are welcome with a small fee based on the menu
Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the discussion

Whether you are deeply involved in agriculture or just interested in learning more, this is a great opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and enjoy a meal with others who share your passion.

#��Ƶ��ýAgClub #AgricultureMatters #FarmLife #GrowWithUs #��Ƶ��ýEvents #AgCommunity #FutureOfFarming

Contact Person

Rene McCracken

Contact Phone#

9034348267

Contact Email

Rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Ag Club Meeting

jminter@ntcc.edu — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:33:44 +0000

Ag Club Meeting jminter@ntcc.edu Tue, 02/25/2025 - 9:33 am

Room#

Ag Complex 117

Event Details

Who Can Attend?

Members eat free
Guests are welcome with a small fee based on the menu
Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the discussion

Whether you are deeply involved in agriculture or just interested in learning more, this is a great opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and enjoy a meal with others who share your passion.

#��Ƶ��ýAgClub #AgricultureMatters #FarmLife #GrowWithUs #��Ƶ��ýEvents #AgCommunity #FutureOfFarming

Contact Person

Rene McCracken

Contact Phone#

9034348267

Contact Email

Rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Ag Club Meeting

jminter@ntcc.edu — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:31:03 +0000

Ag Club Meeting jminter@ntcc.edu Tue, 02/25/2025 - 9:31 am

Room#

Ag Complex 117

Event Details

Who Can Attend?

Members eat free
Guests are welcome with a small fee based on the menu
Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the discussion

Whether you are deeply involved in agriculture or just interested in learning more, this is a great opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and enjoy a meal with others who share your passion.

#��Ƶ��ýAgClub #AgricultureMatters #FarmLife #GrowWithUs #��Ƶ��ýEvents #AgCommunity #FutureOfFarming

Contact Person

Rene McCracken

Contact Phone#

9034348267

Contact Email

Rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Ag Club Meeting

jminter@ntcc.edu — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:29:59 +0000

Ag Club Meeting jminter@ntcc.edu Tue, 02/25/2025 - 9:29 am

Room#

Ag Complex 117

Event Details

Who Can Attend?

Members eat free
Guests are welcome with a small fee based on the menu
Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the discussion

Whether you are deeply involved in agriculture or just interested in learning more, this is a great opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and enjoy a meal with others who share your passion.

#��Ƶ��ýAgClub #AgricultureMatters #FarmLife #GrowWithUs #��Ƶ��ýEvents #AgCommunity #FutureOfFarming

Contact Person

Rene McCracken

Contact Phone#

9034348267

Contact Email

Rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Ag Club Meeting

jminter@ntcc.edu — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:28:27 +0000

Ag Club Meeting jminter@ntcc.edu Tue, 02/25/2025 - 9:28 am

Room#

Ag Complex 117

Event Details

Who Can Attend?

Members eat free
Guests are welcome with a small fee based on the menu
Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the discussion

Whether you are deeply involved in agriculture or just interested in learning more, this is a great opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and enjoy a meal with others who share your passion.

#��Ƶ��ýAgClub #AgricultureMatters #FarmLife #GrowWithUs #��Ƶ��ýEvents #AgCommunity #FutureOfFarming

Contact Person

Rene McCracken

Contact Phone#

9034348267

Contact Email

Rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

"Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus - A Radio Play"

spitts@ntcc.edu — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:00:22 +0000

"Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus - A Radio Play" spitts@ntcc.edu Fri, 10/27/2023 - 10:00 am

Event Details

A collaboration between ��Ƶ��ý Theatre Department & Firefly Community Theatre

"Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus - A Radio Play"
Thursday, Friday, Saturday – Nov. 16, 17, 18 at 7:30 pm
Matinee Saturday, Nov. 18, at 2:30 pm

Whatley Center for the Performing Arts
Northeast Texas Community College
2886 FM 1735
Mt. Pleasant, Texas

Tickets available at www.whatleycenter.com/tickets.html

Contact Person

Page Petrucka

Contact Phone#

903-434-6933

Contact Email

ppetrucka@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Raw Milk Seminar

continuinged@ntcc.edu — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:30:27 +0000

Raw Milk Seminar continuinged@n… Tue, 08/29/2023 - 9:30 am

Event Details

To register, click here: Raw Milk Seminar Registration

Contact Person

Tom Ramler

Contact Phone#

903-434-8175

Contact Email

tramler@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Springfest at ��Ƶ��ý Farm

spitts@ntcc.edu — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:55:42 +0000

Springfest at ��Ƶ��ý Farm spitts@ntcc.edu Mon, 04/18/2022 - 10:55 am

Event Details

SPRINGFEST SET AT ��Ƶ��ý FOR APRIL 21-23RD
Submitted by: Rene’ McCracken, Director of Agriculture ��Ƶ��ý

��Ƶ��ý students and faculty are working persistently to prepare the Sustainable Market Garden for the 3rd annual Springfest set for April 21-23rd. “In response and celebration of National Ag Week, we are delighted to open our gates and share our farm with the community in hopes to instigate an appreciation for farming.” said Director Rene’ McCracken. “While we cannot hope to have a “perfect” farm we do strive to provide a living example of what is possible for small farm operators.”

Building a Sustainable Market Farm

Historically, at 2886 FM 1735 in Mount Pleasant a 400 acre farm bore the Northeast Campus in 1985. Later, with the completion of the Elizabeth Hoggatt Whatley Complex in 2011 and new Sustainable Agriculture Degree and Certification options were a first in the state and a vision of a Sustainable Market Farm was planned. Today, with every season and semester change, the 12 acres surrounding the ag complex transform gradually and naturally into the “living example” college leadership had in mind for a sustainable demonstration farm. Creative ideas continue to come from student and staff plus resources from grants and private donations to build the dream farm unit. “I enjoy working with our students to test out farming hacks found on the “internet” and determining if they actually work in an east Texas small farm” shared McCracken. Current projects include: Hugelkulture bed, keyhole garden, compost tea, meat goats, backyard chicken flock for egg production, weeding geese, cover crops for gardens and pastures, Kune Kune Pig project, muscadine vineyard, greenhouse production of vegetable transplants and rainwater harvesting and run-off management. Each of these sustainable spaces will be open for free hands-on access to experience a living sustainable farm.

��Ƶ��ý Farm Springfest Open House:

Come out to ��Ƶ��ý Farm Open House/Farm – Thurs. April 21, 1 pm to 5:30 pm and Fri., April 22nd 1 pm to 5:30 pm and Sat. April 23rd from 9 am to 1 pm. Stop by and purchase plants, or just come and spend the day with us and check out the Sustainable Demonstration Farm, Purchase Transplants from our Greenhouse, $10 chicken tamale lunch on Saturday only! For more info: contact Rene’ McCracken at 903-434-8267 rmccracken@ntcc.edu or check us www.ntcc.edu/ag or follow us at ��Ƶ��ý Ag Department on Facebook.

Contact Person

Renee McCracken

Contact Phone#

903-434-8267

Contact Email

rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Film Premiere : Pedal To The Metal

spitts@ntcc.edu — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:56:02 +0000

Film Premiere : Pedal To The Metal spitts@ntcc.edu Mon, 03/21/2022 - 8:56 am

Event Details

Pedal to the Metal: The Life of Carroll Hall Shelby Premieres 25 March at 7 PM

Honors Northeast and the ��Ƶ��ý Webb Society to Feature the Story of the Camp-County Emissary of the Muscle Car, 25 March at 7PM at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at ��Ƶ��ý

Film Poster Created by Andrea Reyes

In this the tenth cinematic premiere of a story from the Texas past in as many years, Honors Northeast, and the ��Ƶ��ý Webb Society will present a film that deals with an intriguing symbol of late-twentieth-century American culture. The

feature-length film will begin at 7PM on Friday, 25 March at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. The production is free, and the public is invited. Free coffee, homemade cookies, and drinks will be provided afterward, in the Whatley Foyer.

The script is based on an original interpretation of the Shelby story pursued by the scholars of Honors Northeast, and the ��Ƶ��ý Webb Society, a collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association. The testimony of several former friends of Carroll Shelby including ��Ƶ��ý’s Vice President for Development, Dr. Jonathan McCullough, and former ��Ƶ��ý Vice President for Instruction, Dr. Herb Riedel, as well as a minor library of books about Shelby, donated to ��Ƶ��ý through the efforts of Stephen Borkowski helped shape the final script. The feature-length film was further enabled by the patrons of Honors Northeast, such as Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery of Mount Vernon, Texas composer, Kenny Goodson, who has composed a complete film score, and administrative help at ��Ƶ��ý.

A 2020 graduate of Paul Pewitt High School, and current Winkle Scholar at ��Ƶ��ý, Cade Bennett, stars as Carroll Shelby. A District III Vice President for Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, a McGraw-Hill poster-award winner, and a presenter at the National Collegiate Honors Council, Bennett starred as Bo Pilgrim in last year’s film. He also participated in the research on the Shelby film pursued last summer. Victor Diaz, a freshman from Mount Pleasant, and also an ��Ƶ��ý Presidential Scholar, served as film’s the producer, editing about forty hours of film. Brian Ramirez, ��Ƶ��ý’s James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholar, the

producer of last year’s film on Bo Pilgrim, served as the Director of this year’s film on Carroll Shelby. Together, Ramirez, and Diaz pioneered a new element in ��Ƶ��ý filming—green-screening, which allows the film to simulate the protagonist racing at very high speeds. Evan Sears, a first-year Presidential Scholar, served as the film scholar, developing a key idea about Shelby as a “doer-developer.” Shelby was, like Mikhail Kalashnikov of the machine gun, and Glenn Curtiss of the navy plane, a participant and a developer of an evocative new technology—in this case, the Muscle Car.

Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox, notes: “this year’s film has special dramatic elements that we did not foresee, but have become increasingly exciting as we consider the whole creation. The Shelby story itself, of a lone Texan in a cowboy hat, at first racing, and then fighting with corporate giants such as Lee Iacocca over the fate of true speed, and power in America’s automobile industry, is packed with tension, and interest. In addition, Shelby had heart issues throughout his life that always reappeared at odd moments and threatened to end both his career and life. As the emissary of the Muscle Car—an automobile that makes its appearance along with alpha males in James Bond’s Goldfinger, and Taylor Swift’s Blank Space, Shelby also modeled a “Muscle-Car mystique” in his relations with women, and there are many twists and turns in that narrative. Finally, Kenny Goodson’s composed film score this year promises to fully synergize with the dramatic elements elsewhere. The speed and power of his music, and his arrival, I believe, at a new plateau of musical sophistication is an event itself in our region’s history of music.”

The cast includes: Israel Perez from Mount Pleasant as Lee Iacocca, John Rodriguez, from Mount Pleasant, as John DeLorean, Jessie Parchman, from Mount Pleasant, as Shelby’s first wife, Jordan Chapin, from Winnsboro, as Shelby’s “movie star wife,” and Skylar Fondren as Shelby’s Swedish wife, Lena Dahl. Award-winning actor, Ruben Guerrero, from Pittsburg, plays both Shelby’s backer, Roy Cherryhomes with a southern accent, and his physician, Alfredo Trento, with an Italian accent. Evan Sears like Cade Bennett graduates through life stages as Shelby’s best friend, Ed Wilkins. Others appearing in the film include Andrea Reyes, PTK/Honors Mentor/Coordinator who also designed the film’s arresting poster; composer Kenny Goodson as Herb Riedel; Ann Goodson as Shelby’s mother, Eloise; Raul Leija, as GM executive, Fred Donner; Maiko Estrada as Shelby’s first heart physician, Val Scroggie; Paisley McGee, Rebecca Yox, Brian Ramirez, and Dr. Andrew Yox.

Photo Courtesy of Hudson Old, and the East Texas Journal. From Left to Right: Jessie Parchman, Maiko Estrada, Ruben Guerrero, Raul Leija, Brian Ramirez, Evan Sears, Dr. Andrew Yox, Israel Perez, Ann Goodson, Cade Bennett, Paisley McGee, Jordan Chapin, Skylar Fondren, Victor Diaz, Andrea Reyes, John Rodriguez. Other film actors not seen above: Mr. Kenny Goodson, and Rebecca Yox.

Unlike the award-winning 2019 Ford v Ferrari film that dramatized Shelby’s friendship with racer, Ken Miles, and victory at Le Mans in 1966, the ��Ƶ��ý film portrays Shelby over the course of his adult life. This film depicts Shelby’s more personal struggles, to represent the epitome of the American muscle car ideal, relate to the women in his life, and find meaning in his final years when he was peripherialized by the big auto makers and faced major medical issues.

Past films in this series have included the stories of Bo Pilgrim, Adina De Zavala, Barbara Conrad, Mary Kay, Sam Houston, and the Texas Cherokee, Ma and Pa Ferguson, Harriet Potter Ames, Wright Patman, and Morris Sheppard. All past films of the series can be viewed on www.ntcc.edu/honorsfilms.

The filming occurred over a five-day period in August and included sites at ��Ƶ��ý, the shop of ��Ƶ��ý’s Carroll Shelby Automotive Program, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Mount Pleasant, and several bed-and-breakfast establishments in Jefferson, Texas.

Questions about the premiere can be addressed to Dr. Andrew P. Yox at ayox@ntcc.edu.

Contact Person

Dr. Andrew yox

Contact Email

ayox@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Summertime on the Farm

spitts@ntcc.edu — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:36:43 +0000

Summertime on the Farm spitts@ntcc.edu Fri, 04/16/2021 - 11:36 am

Event Flyer

Summertime on the Farm.pdf1.39 MB

Event Details

June 14th - June 24th

Monday through Thursday

8:00 am - 12:00 PM

Campers will be learning how to care for chickens, goats, pigs, ducks, and more. Gardening, planting, and caring for flower beds will also be covered. Join us this summer as we learn how to "do life" on a real working farm!

Location: Elizabeth Hoggatt Whatley Agriculture Center (Across from the main ��Ƶ��ý campus - 2886 FM 1735, Mt. Pleasant, TX) Camp Instructor is ��Ƶ��ý Ag Director: Renee McCracken

*Early registration: $109/per child April 21st - May 7th

**Regular Registration: $129/per child May 10th - June 4th

To register call or email the Continuing Ed Dept. @ 903-434-8134 or continuinged@ntcc.edu

Kids Homesteading College 2021 Registration Form.pdf263.36 KB

Kids Homesteading College 2021 Participant Release and Indemnification Agreement.pdf147.55 KB

Contact Person

Renee McCracken

Contact Email

continuinged@ntcc.edu

rmccracken@ntcc.edu

Location

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Elizabeth-Hoggat Whatley Ag Center

Ag Club Meeting

Ag Club Meeting

Ag Club Meeting

Ag Club Meeting

Ag Club Meeting

"Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus - A Radio Play"

Raw Milk Seminar

Springfest at ������Ƶ��ý Farm

Film Premiere : Pedal To The Metal

Summertime on the Farm

June 14th - June 24th

Monday through Thursday

8:00 am - 12:00 PM

*Early registration: $109/per child April 21st - May 7th

**Regular Registration: $129/per child May 10th - June 4th

To register call or email the Continuing Ed Dept. @ 903-434-8134 or continuinged@ntcc.edu

Springfest at ��Ƶ��ý Farm