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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 15, 2005 -  Contact: Sandra Faux or Joseph Giomboni King’s College Public Relations Office, (570) 208-5958.

HIGH SCHOOL SPANISH CONTEST WINNERS

HONORED AT KING'S COLLEGE

15 Wilkes-Barre area students receive Spanish awards

July 15, 2005– The National Spanish Examinations, given locally by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, concluded with 42 chapter winners from a pool of 715 middle and high school students who competed from regional public and private schools.
 
King’s College hosted an authentic Spanish dinner for area Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Spanish Examinations winners and their families at the College’s Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center. Alex Byczkowski, assistant professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at King’s College, is director of the program.
 
Winners from the Wilkes-Barre area include Greater Nanticoke Area: Michael Kmietowicz; Meyers High School: Azucena Vazquez; Wyoming Seminary: Nora Benedict, Carrie Craven, Patrick Grinaway, Chelsea Halsor, Maria Insalaco, Breanne Michalek, Janine Musheno, Lauren Onofrey, Selasi Setranah, Robert Silverblatt, Lindsay Stevens, and Dominick Trombetta; Wyoming Valley West: Amy Salahedin.
 
Participating were schools in the Wilkes-Barre area, Hazleton, Scranton, Pocono, and Allentown area.

King’s College is a Catholic College sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross

Winners with outside experience in Spanish in the Northeastern Chapter of the National Spanish Examinations from the Wilkes-Barre area, seated from left: Amy Salahedin, Wyoming Valley West; Lauren Onofrey, Janine Musheno, Carrie Craven, Maria Insalaco, and Dominick Trombetta, of Wyoming Seminary:. Standing: Breanne Michalek, Wyoming Seminary; Azucena Vazquez, Meyers High School; Michael Kmietowicz, Greater Nanticoke Area; Lindsay Stevens, Chelsea Halsor, Patrick Grinaway, Robert Silverblatt, and Selasi Setranah, of Wyoming Seminary; Alex Byczkowski, assistant professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at King’s College.