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Lane Yoder
Joined: 04/14/10 Posts: 23 View Profile |
Spelling Bee Posted Sunday, May 23, 2010 06:33 PM Spelling Bee Winner Receiving Her Award Original caption: Winner Jolitta Schlehuber, left, of McPherson, Kansas, winner of the 31st Annual National Spelling Bee receives her award tonight. Making the presentation is Richard Peters, director of the National Spelling Bee. Miss Schlehuber received a $1,000 check.
As I remember, Jolitta also won $8,000 on the TV show "The $64 Thousand Dollar Question" without a misspelling. She stopped there because she figured that was enough for her college education and didn't want to risk it on the double or nothing gamble. Lane |
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Lane Yoder
Joined: 04/14/10 Posts: 23 View Profile |
From Time Magazine, 1958 Posted Sunday, May 23, 2010 06:39 PM Education: The $1,000 Word For two more rounds and part of a third, they fought without faltering through such helter-spellers as recalesce, baccivorous and jardiniere. Then Jolitta, hearing dissyllabic correctly pronounced with a short i in the first syllable, asked if it could be pronounced "dye . . ." That pronunciation was wrong, but she was told to go ahead. When she misspelled the word (only one s). judges decided that she had been misled. Jolitta was allowed to try Quincunx. She spelled it, and, in spite of protests from Pittsburgh Pressman Joe Williams, Tina's escort, the deadlock continued. . In the 24th round, Terry stumbled on another pronunciation tangle, correctly spelled her substitute word. A round later, Tina failed on soubise. Chance for a male uprising—no boy has won since 1954—ended in the 26th round when Stanley splashed into canaliculus. Jolitta, blonde, scrubbed, and pretty in a pink cotton dress that she made herself, easily tobogganed through pogamoggan and rigescent. Terry spelled coruscant and sirocco with no trouble. Then Terry spelled propylaeum as "pro-pileum." Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education: $1,000. |
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