"Winners of the morning session are (standing from left): Angie McClenahan, 12, Smithton, III., Elementary School; Rachel Moorman, 13, St. John School, Belleville; Parrish Derickson, 13, St. Anthony of Padua School, St. Louis; and Cindy Kriete, 12, St. John's Lutheran School, Arnold. Seated in front of the winners are (from left): Dr. John Burnett, chairman of the child education department at
"Four more Semi-Finalists at the Globe-Democrats Annual Spelling Bee, held at University of Missouri St. Louis. They are: Jill Raftery, 12, Twillman School, Hazelwood; Denielle Kelly, 13, St. Pius X, Glasgow Village; Joe Tutka, 12, St. John Neumann, Collinsville, Ill.; and Robin Moulin, 13, Kirby Jr. High, Hazelwood, Missouri."
"Four of the first eight spelling bee winners, at the afternoon session [of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee] were: Linda Wucher, 14, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque; Katie Coff, 13, Dupo Jr. High; Denise Huster, 12, St. Peter School; and Tamra Thomas, 13, Normandy Jr. High." Each winner has a name tag hanging around their necks that indicate their name and school.
Winners from the afternoon Spelling Bee session at the University of Missouri-St. Louis are, from left: Jojiro Takano, 14, Parkway North Junior High School; Amy Bueltmann, 13, St. Joseph School, Cottleville, Mo.; Laura Wasko, 10, St. Stephen School, Caseyville, Ill.; and Jennifer Accardo, 12, Mary Queen of the Universe School, Lemay.
The four winners of the afternoon competition of the 1981 Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee are, from left, Timothy Tracy, 13, Our Lady of Fatima School; Charlene Hermann, 12, St. Paul School, O'Fallon, Mo.; Larry State, 14, St. Kevin School; and Jonathan Merritt, 14, Holy Cross Lutheran School.
This photo shows four winners from the 1985 St. Louis Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee. From left to right, they are: Carolyn Eastabrook, 12, Meramec Heights School; Kevin Hood, 11, Shiloh; Brett Westhoff, 14, St. Roberts; Julie Chang, 13, Parkway South Jr. High. Behind them are Judge Roy C. Dripps, an English Teacher, Academy of Math and Science with St. Louis Public Schools and Pronouncer Dr
Winners, from left, are Angie McClenahan, 12, Smithton, III., Elementary School; Rachel Moorman, 13, St. John School, Belleville; Parrish Derickson, 13, St. Anthony of Padua School, St. Louis; and Cindy Kriete, 12, St. John's Lutheran School, Arnold. Seated in front of the four are Spelling Bee Pronouncer and Chairman of the Child Education Department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Dr
"Four semi-finalist l-r: Kelly Walker, 11 yrs. old of Central, Peggy Dickmann, 12 yr. old of Chaney, Billy Weeks 11 yr. old of Sherwood and Greg Uptain 12 yr. old of Grannemann school. Back l-r: Cat Brown of Globe, Judge of Bee Roy C. Dripps English teacher at Academy of Math & Sciences, Richard W. Burnett, the pronouncer of bee, is director of UMSL Reading Clinic and Richard Buchanan, senior
"Spelling Bee Officials...pronouncer Dr. Richard Burnett of UMSL [University of Missouri-St. Louis]; and Judge Ray C. Dripps; during the annual Globe Democrat Spelling Bee in the J. C. Penny Auditorium on the UMSL campus."
"In [this] photo are the afternoon winners, from left: Christine Malon, 13 Corpus Christi School; Matt Gutting, 13, St. Ann School; Mary Beth Kramer, 13, Our Lady of Providence; and Mike Montgomery, 14, St. Anthony of Padua. The champion of The Globe-Democrat competition will win an expense-paid trip to Washington for the national finals in June. In addition, the winner receives a Zenith stereo
"These St. Louis area youngsters survived an elimination round Saturday to advance to the finals in the 29th annual Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee. The letter-perfect youngsters will join other area spellers and 14 from outstate Missouri and Illinois in the finals to be held at 10a.m. May 2 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In Saturday's elimination sessions at UMSL, 68 area school champions
"Semifinalists in the 32nd Annual Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee are (l-r) Amy Korytowski of St. Joachim and Ann School, Cindy Kriete of St. Johns Lutheran School, Kristin Carter of St. Clare of Assisi School and Mary Stumpf of Central School. In the center of the back row is Richard Buchanan of Webster/McGraw Hill. In foreground is Spelling Bee judge Roy Dripps, an English teacher at the Academy of Math and Sciences and Spelling Bee pronouncer Richard Burnett, director of the UMSL Reading Clinic."
"Ed DeRoche, Ph.D., explains a point to teachers at a recent Globe-Democrat Newspaper in Education workshop held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Another summer workshop will be held Aug. 1-10 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis."