By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Cade Alan Bennett, a NTCC sophomore, District III Phi Theta Kappa Vice President, and former Cypress Bank Scholar, is the winner of the 2021-22 Gladys Winkle Humanities/Honors scholarship. He will receive $2,500 for matriculation at NTCC in the coming year, as a top student of Honors Northeast, majoring in the Humanities.
Bennett is particularly well known both because he travels to several regional colleges for Phi Theta Kappa as Vice President, but also because he starred as Bo Pilgrim in the 2020 NTCC film premiered on campus last March. He will also star as Carroll Shelby in the 2021 film of Honors Northeast and the NTCC Webb Society. The NTCC cinema troupe recently completed the filming of forty-eight scenes on the story of the great automobile developer, and NTCC patron in Jefferson.
Bennett also placed third in the McGraw Hill Poster contest in the spring of 2021 for his work on Texas capitalism and creativity, a theme he will present at the upcoming meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council in Orlando in October.
Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox, notes: “Cade has a marvelous personality that sparkles with generosity and empathy. He also has amazed us with his iron-trap memory. Through forty-eight scenes of the last film experience as the star in almost every scene, he stumbled far less, I think, than the rest of us combined!”
Bennett is the son of Mark and Cerena of Naples.
The family of Gladys Winkle included a dear friend of NTCC who passed away last 21 July. Tom Wilkinson III of Mount Vernon was a major supporter of humanities at the college, and his encouragement and advice right up to the end of his life will be sorely missed.
