"Planning the schedules for the St. Louis Hearing and Speech Center's mobile unit, which travels throughout the St. Louis area, are, from left -- volunteers Mrs. Linda Cope and Mrs. Jean Swan, both of Ballwin."
Sixteen champion spellers from the St. Louis area outspelled 133 other contestants in the first session of the 26th annual Spelling Bee sponsored by The St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Saturday's competition was held at the J.C. Penney auditorium at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. The Saturday afternoon winners are, from left, Kevin Rezek, Michael O'Leary, Lisa Unterreiner, Angelia Howell
Winning Spellers -- Sixteen more champion spellers from the St. Louis area have gained spots in the 27th annual Spelling Bee sponsored by The Globe-Democrat. They are, front row, from left, Joan Caldwell, Ann Newman, Gina Cattalini and Breck Washam. Back row, Barbara O'Brien, Mark Kemna, Maureen Ringling and Kris Setina.
Winning Spellers -- Sixteen more champion spellers from the St. Louis area have gained spots in the 27th annual Spelling Bee sponsored by The Globe-Democrat. They are, from left, Darren Snow, Jill Anderson, Mary Fitzgerald, Larry State, Le Ann Johnson, Ann Galutera, Susan Ann Gutierrez and Karen Girshner.
Globe's trivia contest TV winners, New Deal Store. Two of the six winners that showed up for the picture, left to right front row: Bert Borth and K.C. Bouzek. Back left to right: Tommy Farhatt, Joe Farhatt, Steve Mizerany and Joe Farhatt Jr.
Dressed for Bicentennial: The Globe-Democrat newspaper vending machine outside The Globe-Democrat building gets new paint job to honor the Bicentennial.
A nine-year-old boy, entering the "What Is It?" contest for the first time, used a book that belongs to his grandmother to identify the object and become the winner for the week of March 17. John J. McDermott Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. McDermott from Kirkwood, Missouri.