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By HELEN RUISI
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Students Win Awards
Competing against other students from around the state and region, Wakefield students have won important awards during the past month in history, Spanish and mathematics.
For the third year in a row, Wakefield students swept the regional division of the National History Contest, winning all of the prizes awarded in the contest held at Shenandoah College on April 6.
The first place winner in the contest was ninth grader Cory Dermitt for her American History project on antebellum Southern plantations. Eleventh grader Valerie Steinier won the second place award for her project on Sherman’s March to the Sea, find tenth grader David Norris won third place for his essay entitled “Triumph and Tragedy in World History.” All three winners are eligible to participate in the state division of the contest, which will be held in late May.
In the National Spanish Contest held at Langley High School in McLean, two of the 10 competing Wakefield students were among the top 15 scorers in the Potomac Chapter of the contest. Eleventh grader Tara Welty came in eighth in Level III (third year Spanish), and eleventh grader Valerie Steinier ranked fifth in Level II Spanish. The Potomac Chapter of the National Spanish Contest includes all of Northern Virginia and the Metropolitan region of D.C.
In the 1984-85 Contest of Virginia Mathematics League for seventh and eighth grades, Wakefield seventh grader Christopher Butler was named the number two student in the region which includes Clarke, Frederick, Har
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