• Originally published July 21, 2008 at 6:20 p.m., updated July 21, 2008 at 6:20 p.m.

Congratulations are in order for Matthew Durham, 13-year-old Howell Middle School student, who won the Hispanic Poster Contest this past week. His art was among 34 pieces from Howell and Crain middles schools that were judged.

Durham’s realistic (yet impressionistic) poster of an old man donned in a serape and sombrero sitting with his back against a tree trunk playing a guitar, won him four years of higher education — two years at The Victoria College and two years at the University of Houston-Victoria.

The contest was presented by the Spanish Speaking Initiative committee and the University of Houston-Victoria’s Letting Education Achieve Dreams (LEAD). It was judged by members of the Club Sembradores de Amistad de Victoria (The Club of the Sowers of Friendship).

Durham’s poster will be used during Hispanic Heritage Month in September.

While Durham’s “El Compositor (the composer)” was named the winner, second- and third-place winners will be named at a Sept. 16 event to be held at UHV.

But we also praise LEAD for its efforts to increase Hispanic college enrollment and help first-generation college students; and we praise the Club Sembradores de Amistad for its work to provide scholarships at The Victoria College. Last year the club established a $10,000 endowment to which it added $5,000 this year.

Again, congratulations go to Durham for his winning four years of higher education and for his obvious talent for creating images.

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