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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES HISTORY DAY DISTRICT 9 WINNERS
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., March 14, 2003 - More than 500 junior high and high school students from across the region participated in the National History Day District 9 Contest March 8 at Southeast Missouri State University. Students from Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry, Reynolds, Ripley, Scott, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Stoddard, Washington and Wayne counties competed. More than 220 projects were entered in the contest. All winners, except for those in the elementary categories, will advance to the state National History Day competition April 12 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The theme for History Day 2003 was "Rights and Responsibilities in History," and students competed in one of four categories: exhibit, media, performance or historical paper. "Considering the fact that this was a very difficult theme and that very few of these students have had many five-day school weeks this winter (due to an unusually high number of snow days across the region), this is really a testament to how strong History Day is in Southeast Missouri," said Dr. Joel Rhodes, District 9 coordinator. An awards ceremony was held at the end of the day's activities. Winners in each of the competition categories are attached. For more information, contact the District 9 coordinator, Dr. Joel Rhodes, Department of History, Southeast Missouri State University, at (573) 651-2715, or e-mail: jrhodes@semo.edu. Elementary Individual Exhibits 1. "Innocence Lost: Child Labor in America's Mills and Mines"
2. "'We Hold These Truths:' Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence"
Elementary Group Exhibits 1. "'The Patient Sufferance of Women:' The Life of Susan B. Anthony"
2. "'All Rights are the Offspring of Responsibilities:' The Grimke Sisters and the Battle Over Slavery"
3. "No Gain Without 'Paine:' Thomas Paine and the American Revolution"
Junior Historical Papers 1. "Cherokee Lose Rights - Government Ignores Responsibilities"
2. "All Aboard: Society's Answer to an Orphan's Problems"
3. "Taking Responsibility for the Rights of Others During World War II"
Junior Individual Exhibits 1. "Susan B. Anthony's Fight For Women's Suffrage"
2. "Cherokee Rights Trampled"
3. "Major League Baseball and the 1994 Strike"
Junior Group Exhibits 1. "The Berlin Wall"
2. "The Klan: The Rights of the Ku Klux Klan"
3. "World War II POWs of Conran, Missouri"
Junior Individual Performance 1. "Bridging the Gap: A Walk That Made a Difference"
2. "A Clarion Call: Rights and Responsibilities in the Words of Abraham Lincoln"
3. "John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address"
Junior Group Performance 1. "About a Boy: Emmitt Till and Civil Rights"
2. "The Women Are Steppin' Up: The Fight For Women's Rights"
3. "Hidden Hope in the Holocaust: The Story of Corrie Ten Boom"
Junior Individual Media 1. "Red Tide Rising: NATO Taking Responsibility and Protecting Rights in the Cold War"
2. "To Print or Not to Print"
3. "Our Toiling Children"
Junior Group Media 1. "FDR's Four Freedoms"
2. "Wrongful Removal: Rights Sacrificed Along a Trail of Tears"
3. "George Whitefield: The Beginning to the End"
Senior Historical Papers 1. "Trampled Rights: The Cherokee Indians and the Trail of Tears"
2. "The Scopes Trial"
3. "Defending America: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern FBI"
Senior Individual Performance 1. "Honored But Unlamented: One President's Story"
2. "Male Fraud: The Shannon Faulkner Story"
Senior Group Performance 1. "Butler's Belles"
2. "Risking Darkness to Reach the Light"
3. "Risking Darkness to Reach the Light"
Senior Individual Media 1. "Snow White and Tail Gunner Joe"
2. "Out of the Muck: Progressives of the Early 1900s"
Senior Group Media 1. "The Right to Strike: Sharecropper's Strike of 1939"
2. "Operation Wrath of God: Responsibility to Reciprocity"
3. "Through Stained Glass: The Birmingham Bombing and a Search for Justice"
Senior Group Exhibits 1. "Pony Express: Heroes on Horseback"
2. "With All Deliberate Speed: The Little Rock Nine"
3. "Dirty Little Secrets of Salem"
Senior Individual Exhibits 1. "Child's Rights Parent's Responsibilities: Sectional Differences in Colonial America and the Effect on Families Today"
2. "If You Want a Friend in Washington, Buy a Dog…"
3. "Nat Turner's Rebellion"
Best Project in Regional History "Reading, Writing, Arithmetic: Rural Education in Missouri"
Scholarship Winner "Child's Rights Parent's Responsibilities: Sectional Differences in Colonial America and the Effect on Families Today"
Sweepstakes Winner Risco R-II Risco, Mo. | |
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