Dear Alumni, Students, Parents, and Friends of the Honors College, I hope you enjoy this inaugural issue of the Honors College newsletter, “Notes from Halfway There.” As any Honors Scholar could tell you, the Honors College motto is “sapere aude,” “dare to be wise,” which is taken from the Roman poet Horace. The first part of Horace’s line from which our motto is taken, however, is less well known: “Well begun is half done.” And if daring to be wise is a sign of being half done, well then any Honors Scholar who is faithful to the motto is at least halfway there, halfway to wisdom. Now that there are over two hundred Honors College alumni, it is important that we find ways to keep in touch with each other. Every May, at each Honors College Commissioning Service, we say that our graduates are not leaving the Honors College—they are simply enlarging its boundaries. Many of our alumni, current students, faculty, and friends are concentrated in Houston, but others are spread over the world. (At some point in the future, perhaps we’ll send an Honors Scholar to the starry heavens, this being Houston and all.) I hope you enjoy reading in this issue about what is happening in the lives of some of our Honors Scholars. If you have any news of your own to share, please let us know. Lastly, if you are an Honors College alumnus and haven’t heard about the alumni event we’re planning for the spring, please get in touch. We’d love to see you there! All the Best, Gary Hartenburg Director, The Honors College Houston Christian University