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Winners of NACC Writing Competition
Announced
The Northeast Alabama Community College chapter of Sigma Kappa
Delta, the English honorary for two-year schools, is proud to
announce its winners of the 2008 Writing Competition for
students in area middle schools and high schools. NACC’s Epsilon
Alpha chapter began sponsoring the high school/middle school
competition in 2001. Since then, students from Jackson and
DeKalb counties have proudly displayed their writing talent.
This year, Dade County was included in the competition.
Each year the college asks area teachers
to submit poetry, fiction, and essays from students in grades
7-9 and 10-12. These entries are then judged by a panel of Sigma
Kappa Delta members and NACC faculty. The top three students in
each area of each division are given certificates and pen sets
and are recognized at NACC’s annual awards day program on
campus. Additionally, the student’s work will be published in
the upcoming edition of the Aurora, the college’s
literary magazine.
This year’s competition was quite successful. The college
received seventy entries from schools in DeKalb County, Jackson
County, and Fort Payne City systems. The winners from grades 7
through 9 are as follows:
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Fiction 7-9—1st Place Carly Gamblin
(Crossville), 2nd Place Colby Palmer (Pisgah), and 3rd Place
Keelie Wilkes (Crossville)
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Poetry 7-9—1st Place Ryan Thurmond
(Dutton), 2nd Place Rachel Stewart (North Jackson), and 3rd
Place Ashley Bradley (Crossville)
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Essay 7-9—1st Place Garrett Lowry
(Crossville), 2nd Place Chelsea Miller (North Sand
Mountain), and 3rd Place Keelie Wilkes (Crossville).
From grades 10 through 12, the winners are
as follows:
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Fiction 10-12—1st Place Angelica
Williams (North Sand Mountain), 2nd Place Alex Pointer
(Crossville), and 3rd Place Hannah Underwood (Crossville)
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Poetry 10-12—1st Place Matthew
Gorbachev (Three Springs), 2nd Place Graham Nelson (North
Jackson), and 3rd Place Kelly Jones (Dade County);
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Essay 10-12—1st Place Dusty Shrader
(North Sand Mountain), 2nd Place Leah Dorsett (Crossville),
and 3rd Place Olivia DeBerry (Crossville).
Congratulations to all these
talented students and their teachers. The teachers who are
responsible for working with these students are Jeff Hawes
(Dutton), Carla Luther (Crossville High), Melanie Nevels (North
Jackson High), David Tombrello (North Jackson High), Nia Stivers
(North Sand Mountain), Pam Vaughn (Pisgah), Patsy Townson
(Crossville), Carolyn Johnson (Three Springs), Cynthia Bowden
(Dade County), Tracy Gilliland (Crossville). For more
information about the literary competition sponsored by
Northeast, please contact Joan Reeves at
reevesj@nacc.edu or phone
ext 347.
Pictured L-R are (kneeling) Dusty Shrader, Keelie Wilkes, Olivia
DeBerry, Colby Palmer, Graham Nelson, Jeff Hawes; (2nd row)
Tracy Gilliland, Melanie Nevels, Carla Luther; (3rd row) Pam
Vaughn, Carly Gamblin, Angelica Williams, Hannah
Underwood,Chelsea Miller; (back) Ryan Thurmond, Leah Dorsett,
Garrett Lowry, Alex Pointer, Ashley Bradley, Nia Stivers, and
Daviad Tombrello.
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