We East Texans are immensely proud of our children, and love to do a little bragging when we can.

Well, here's a chance to do just that: we want you to share your graduates' photos with us, whether from this year or years past!

We'll build a slideshow featuring East Texas grads that you can share on your own social media pages.

Submit your photos with student's name  to Sendit@kltv.com to be included. Thanks, neighbors!

From Good Shepherd Medical Center:

Good Shepherd Medical Center is pleased to announce that two of their registered nurses and a physician have been selected as 2012 March of Dimes award recipients.

Honored are Jenna Lucas, RNC-OB, named the honoree for the State of Texas March of Dimes Excellence in Perinatal Nursing Award; Stephanie Capt, BSN, RNC-NIC, Clinical Director, NICU/Pediatrics/Lactation, selected for the Regional March of Dimes recipient for Excellence in Neonatal Nursing and Jack Graham, MD, Board Certified in Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine, selected as the recipient for the Regional Perinatal Physician Excellence honoree.

Award winners will be honored at a reception scheduled for Monday, November 19 at Good Shepherd Medical Center.

Lucas, Good Shepherd’s honoree for the State of Texas March of Dimes Excellence in Perinatal Nursing Award, is a Labor & Delivery RN and relief Charge Nurse who has experience and knowledg

From Longview ISD:

Longview ISD Assistant Superintendent Jody Clements has been selected to receive the 2012 Alumni Award for Achievement and Merit from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Clements and four other UAM alumni – including the director of Arkansas’ largest environmental policy and regulatory agency – will be honored by the university on October 12 for their professional achievements.

“This is a distinguished group and each has earned the right to be honored by the university,” Chancellor Jack Lassiter said. “We are honoring individuals who have excelled in business, education, law, public service and the military. We are honored to be able to recognize their achievements.”

Clements, who attended UAM on a track scholarship, earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1987.  He also holds an MBA in accounting from Louisiana Tech and certifications from Stephen F.