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One of Texas Tech University's Head Start Program founders and a former director were honored with Winnie the Pooh-inspired awards for achievements.
Written by Cory Chandler
The Early Head Start program strives to ensure high-quality, responsive services to all families.
The Texas Tech University Early Head Start program honored one of its founders and a former director during its third-annual Pooh Awards Ceremony.
The ceremony is named after Winnie the Pooh, an international symbol of friendship and caring. Awards recognize community members or organizations active in the Early Head Start program.
More than 100 friends and family members of the program’s 56 children celebrated the children’s achievements during the ceremony.
Quincy White, one of the program’s founders, was recognized with the Grand Pooh Bah Award and La Nelle Ethridge, former director, received a Pooh Emeritus.
The children also were recognized with certificates of individualized appreciation.
White was executive director of the Lubbock Housing Authority when he helped found Parents as Teachers, a home-based parent education program for pregnant women and young mothers with low incomes that later expanded into Early Head Start.
Pooh Award organizers noted that while Quincy is now assistant city manager for the City of Lubbock and executive director of the North & East Lubbock Community Development Corporation, he continues to promote the Early Head Start program and advocate for the needs of families.
Ethridge worked as director for Early Head Start for nearly ten years before retiring in May, and continued providing guidance and advice after retirement, mentoring the program’s new director and advocating for the program when speaking in the community.
The Early Head Start program in the College of Human Sciences provides responsive services to families from culturally and socio-economically diverse backgrounds.
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College of Human Sciences
The College of Human Sciences at Texas Tech University provides multidisciplinary education, research and service focused on individuals, families and their environments for the purpose of improving and enhancing the human condition.
The college offers a Bachelor of Science degree with disciplines in:
- Apparel Design and Manufacturing
- Community, Family, and Addiction Services
- Early Childhood
- Family and Consumer Sciences
- Human Development and Family Studies
- Interior Design
- Nutritional Sciences
- Personal Financial Planning
- Restaurant, Hotel, and Institutional Management
- Retailing
The college also offers graduate programs leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:30 am
thanks for including our story! So little of the Tech campus know we are over here working with families on behalf of Texas Tech. Great story!
Janet Watson
Parent Advocate
Tx. Tech EHS
November 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I was a student within the Human Science department from 1982-1987, graduate May 1987. I was a single mother with a six month old daughter who lived in the Housing Authority Complex behind Gene Mears Ford while I attended school, worked on campus part-time, and parent my child. Because of the excellent classes offered in the Human Science Department, I was able to gain important skills to parent my child during those difficult years as a young mother. I was a first generation student who gained a strong foundation at TTU.
My daughter became a strong student who also graduated from Texas Tech with a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in Mathematics, 2000-2004, 2004-2006.
Thank you for all your hard work and how you continue to serve the community.