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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 13, 2005 -  Contact: Sandra Faux or Joseph Giomboni King’s College Public Relations Office, (570) 208-5958.

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL FRENCH CONTEST WINNERS

HONORED AT KING'S COLLEGE

June 13, 2005–The National French Contest, sponsored by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, concluded with 71 chapter and 21 national winners from a pool of nearly 452 elementary to high school students who competed from public and private schools in the Wyoming Valley, Scranton and the Poconos, Hazleton area, and South Williamsport.

King’s College hosted a dinner for area National French Contest winners and their families at the College’s Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center. Dr. Margaret Corgan, department chairperson of Foreign Languages and Literatures at King’s College, is president of the local chapter and director of the program.

Nina Shah, a senior at Wyoming Seminary, won the prestigious Langenscheidt Publishers Award for the student who participated the greatest number of times with the greatest success.

Winners from the Wilkes-Barre area include: Bishop Hoban: Maura Rinehimer; Coughlin High School: Steffany McDougal, Hannah Sharp, and Taylor Smith; Crestwood Middle and High School: Brittany Gada, Catherine Hewett Hannah Iezzoni, and Nicholas Weiss; Wyoming Valley West Middle School: Emily Wallitsch; Wyoming Seminary: Aaron Anthony, Julie Arowcavage, Thomas Bell, Kelly Dickinson, Jeffrey Kratz, Stephen Levandoski, Samantha Marquart, Wesley Mech, Nicholas Miller, Usamah Rashid, Andrew Rogers, Nadan Sehic, Nina Shah, and Kathleen Sharkey.

Winners from the Wilkes-Barre area of the National French contest, sponsored by the Northeastern Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French seated from left: Catherine Hewett, Brittany Gada, Nina Shah, Thomas Bell, Andrew Rogers, Wesley Mech, Julie Arowcavage, Kathleen Sharkey, Hannah Sharp, and Taylor Smith. Standing: Nicholas Weiss, Nadan Sehic, Stephen Levandoski, Aaron Anthony, Nicholas Miller, Samantha Marquart, Kelly Dickinson, Jeffrey Kratz, Usamah Rashid, Maura Rinehimer, Steffany McDougal, Emily Wallitsch, Hannah Iezzoni, and Dr. Margaret Corgan, department chairperson of Foreign Languages and Literatures at King’s College.