Honors Northeast premieres original historical film on the life of Mary Kay

Honors Northeast and the local Webb Society will hold a premiere of the new original historical film Smoldering Wick: the Story of Mary Kay on Friday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College. This year’s film, the sixth for Honors Northeast, traces the life story of the great Texas cosmetics CEO, a journey that was at once inspirational, influential and controversial. Daingerfield graduate Cassidy Watkins stars as Mary Kay.

Free refreshments and a brief panel discussion with NTCC Presidential Scholars (including Matthew Chambers, Rachel Jordan, Jordan Whelchel, Producer Warren Wu, Cassidy Watkins, Film Scholar, Yami Zuniga, and Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox) will be featured after the film in the Whatley Foyer. Admission is free and the public is welcome.

The one-hour film, produced by Presidential Scholar Warren Wu of Daingerfield, follows the life of a woman who found herself caught in a maze of educational, corporate and medical obstructions after World War II. Divorced and with three children, Mary Kay nearly collapsed after a spectacularly wrong diagnosis. She regained her stamina, measured time by the 1,440 minutes in each day, and refused to accept the strictures of the businesses she worked for. Imbued with a Southern Baptist faith, she began her own business, and openly propagated the principle that a corporation should put God first, family second, and her career third.

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