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Marion Jordan Student Wins District 15 Spelling Bee
Marion Jordan sixth-grader Aamani Paturi was the winner of the 2006 District 15 Spelling Bee, correctly spelling “bureaucracy” to edge out the second-place competitor, Jeanne Kaliski, a sixth-grader from Gray M. Sanborn School. Winners of spelling bees held in 18 District 15 elementary and junior high schools competed in the February 1 district meet.
Aamani is a two-time District 15 spelling champion, having also won the district bee in 2004 as well as the regional competition, the North Cook 2004 Suburban Cook County Spelling Bee. As winner of the District 15 competition, she will represent District 15 in the north suburban Cook County final in late February. The winner of that round will compete with winners of the central and south suburban Cook County finals in the 2006 Chicagoland Spelling Bee Suburban Final on March 29 at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn.
In addition to Aamani and Jeanne, other schools’ winners were:
- Lei Watanuki, fourth grade, Jane Addams;
- Dragomir (David) Oreshkov, fifth grade, Central Road;
- Graham Hathaway, sixth grade, Willow Bend;
- Jamie Zhu, sixth grade, Pleasant Hill;
- Joseph Kim, sixth grade, Hunting Ridge;
- Kevin Krout, fifth grade, Thomas Jefferson;
- Agnieszka (Agnes) Zajac, sixth grade, Lake Louise;
- Caitlin Enos, eighth grade, Carl Sandburg Junior High;
- Manasa Amancherla, eighth grade, Walter R. Sundling Junior High;
- William Fitzgibbons, sixth grade, Kimball Hill;
- Collin Smith, fourth grade, Winston Campus-Elementary;
- Donald Schiek, sixth grade, Virginia Lake;
- Kevin Colish, sixth grade, Lincoln;
- John DeSario, fourth grade, Stuart R. Paddock;
- Arjun Puranik, eighth grade, Plum Grove Junior High; and
- Eric Scott, fifth grade, Frank C. Whiteley.
All District 15 Spelling Bee competitors will be honored by the Board of Education at its February 8 meeting.
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