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senior the tribune wednesday october 6 1982 a5 best keith award to lucknow girl mac and fern keith rr 1 unionville were active participants in the hereford show at markham fair where mac the foreman at almira hereford farms served as ringmas- unionville school student markham i read a lot thats the way jean ne mckane the youth ful winner of the mar kham fair spelling bee for grade five and six students summed it up when asked about her prowess in the spell ing department in a thrilling allgirl finale jeanne 12 a grade six pupil at un ionville public school bested rivals kim baron 2nd of william armstrong public school markham and -av- jennifer galloway of franklin street public school markham by correctly spelling the word persuaded af ter they both had failc-d- jeanne also admitted that spelling was her favorite subject a total of 24 students including russell moore of parkview public school union ville who was the last of the boys to be defeated waded through the long list of words before the three girls fought it oiit with one tense word af- markham a steady line of conten ders including miss markham fair twice wiggled and waggled in ever direction but they couldnt disturb or dethrone the reigning champion glen baron of burrows hall scar borough in the 16-and- over category of the markham fair hula hoop contest baron a greying slightly paunchy man in his forties easily beat out the 15 or so people including fiveyearold danny dellafortuna of scar borough who man aged to get into the act who kept climbing up on the stage and challenging him keeping his hoop in orbit with an almost effortless motion while all those about him shook and shim mied in frenzied 0 fashion baron re- ter here they present their sr showmanship ga the crown he trophy to carol rintoul centre of lucknow t f year when ont he simply ran out of jim thomas challengers in a preliminary to the baron runaway four young women in the same age category who all hooped it up for five straight mi nutes were each given a ribbon for their per formance the winners in the other categories were as follows six and under stacey mor row east york seven and under jennifer dellafortuna scarbor ough douglas green toronto leah lum- ley markham eric monteith sharon seven and eight melanie thurgood richmond hill 910 julia dare markham 1011 diane lowrey scarborough 1112 steven clark toronto 1213 bonnie allen markham 1315 christy- allen pick- ering 16 richard mccobmack west hill s top speller ter another russell jay lilley and nicole sargent both of franklin street school were among the last six contenders the fierceness of the competition was at times matched only by the intenseness of the competitors when they went down to defeat they didnt accept it lightly and their faces showed it however- a few pats from their pa rents and they were back taking it all in again some of the words the competitors had the most difficulty with were gorgeous vacuum rhythm linoleum prophet and prairie however if three people in a row missed on a word all three contestants were allowed to continue that happened sever al times even among the finalists so that not one person went through the spelling bee word perfect jeanne received a medal for her winning peformance general electric the incredible mmiiliimmiimmmmiimmtfbbimbimrim mrtlfetoii amma ktmm