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Judges called Wakefield. School a “history powerhouse” as Wakefield students won all of the six prizes awarded in the regional competition of the National History Contest held on Saturday, March 31, at Shenandoah College in Winchester.
There are junior (grades 6-3) and senior (grades 9-12) divisions of the contest, and several categories, including historical essays, projects, and group presentations. The theme of the 1984 contest is “Family and Community in History’.
In the junior division, Wakefield winners were 6th grader Analethia Hoare for her paper “Religious Communities in the Middle Ages” 7th grader Jennifer Anderson for her project on serfs’ houses, and 6th graders Matthew Lynn, Brian Favre, Ian Williams, Lou Brown, and Tom Trumbower for their performance of “A Pages’ Progress", a one-act play written by Matthew Lynn about the Medieval system of education. All of the junior division winners are students of Pamela Lynn’s 6th grade Medieval History and 7th grade British History classes.
Senior division winners were 10th grader Meera Maheswaren for her essay “The Effects of Women’s Rights
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