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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.

12 WYOMING SEMINARY LOWER 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 Wyoming Seminary Lower School are: Madeleine Burg, Jason Curtis, Sean Dickinson, Hannah Dressler, Kevin Kopec, Katherine Levandoski, Ashley Nichols, Renata O’Donnell, Sara Ouellette, Emily Rogers, Alaina Schukraft, and Carly Sokach.

Winners, from the Wyoming Seminary Lower School, of the National French contest, sponsored by the Northeastern Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French include, seated from left: Alaina Schukraft, Jason Curtis, Hannah Dressler, Kevin Kopec, and Renata O’Donnell. Standing: Sean Dickinson, Madeleine Burg, Carly Sokach, Katherine Levandoski, Sara Ouellette, Emily Rogers, and Dr. Margaret Corgan, department chairperson of Foreign Languages and Literatures at King's College.