Lincoln 7th-grader advances in Scripps spelling bee
January 31, 2012 2:50PM
Anastasia Dalianis, a seventh-grader at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, was named the winner of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64's 2012 Spelling Bee on Jan. 30. | Tamara Bell~Sun Times Media
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Updated: March 3, 2012 8:39AM
Twenty-two students battled to be named champion of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64’s 2012 Spelling Bee on Jan. 30 at Roosevelt Elementary School.
In the end Lincoln Middle School seventh-grader Anastasia Dalianis spelled ”imam” correctly to capture the championship over eighth-grader Julia Araneta. Taking third place was last year’s winner, Anna Benuzzi, an Emerson Middle School eighth-grader.
Dalianis will now advance to the North Cook Regional Spelling Bee, which will be Feb. 8 at Sears School in Kenilworth. The competition is part of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The District 64 Spelling Bee lasted 20 rounds, with the last seven a face-off between Dalianis and Araneta.
The students who took part were all winners of their school’s own spelling contests, which were held earlier in January. They included Grace Gallery, Will Harter and Georgia Penesis, of Carpenter School; Jessie Beck, Justin Kim and Gabby Galiciano, of Field School; Fallon Adams, Deliah El Bekkali and Ethan LaVacarre, of Franklin School; Luke Burkum, Jensen Genyk and Anna Sealund, of Roosevelt School; Zoe Berthold, Elizabeth Gorney and Catherine Sernel, of Washington School; Ned Converse and Abigail Ekstrom, of Lincoln Middle School; and Darragh Dolan and Christo Fosse, of Emerson Middle School.
Franklin School speech pathologist Jane Tufts was the pronouncer for the District 64 Bee. Judges were Franklin School Principal Dan Walsh, Roosevelt School Assistant Principal Andy Petroline and Field School teacher Anne Ham.
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