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The Review March 1, 2016
SCUL·LION | noun | archaic – a servant assigned menial kitchen tasks.
You’re going to
Washington!
With an archaic word, a Polo fifth-grader mastered a monumental task: winning a regional spelling bee that will send her on her way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN
Photos by Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com
Rebekah Zeigler of Centennial Elementary School in Polo reacts Thursday to winning the Lee-Ogle-Whiteside Regional Spelling Bee in Dixon. River Bend Middle School eighth-grader Mariam Elahmady battled with eventual winner Rebekah Zeigler for 37 rounds during Thursday’s spelling bee.
DIXON – For nearly 3 hours and 37 rounds, Rebekah Zeigler did all she could to keep the blood from rushing to her head. But when Tom Wadsworth, emcee of the first combined LeeOgle-Whiteside Regional Spelling Bee, turned and announced to the Centennial Elementary School fifth-grader, “You’re going to Washington!”, she put her hands on her cheeks and dragged her fingers down to reveal bright red streaks – streaks of relief, no doubt. In spelling scullion correctly, the defending Lee-Ogle champ from Polo again punched
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her ticket to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which will be held May 22 to 27 in National Harbor, Maryland. She also survived a showdown with three other spellers – eventual runner-up Mariam Elahmady of River Bend Middle School in Fulton, Aaliyah Gaffey of Challand Middle School in Sterling, and Rebekah Starwalt of Byron Middle School – that began in Round 14 and lasted the subsequent 13 rounds. Typically, Wadsworth waits for the final three spellers to bring them to the front of the stage, but after the quartet, along with Taylor Miller of Forreston, duked it out for five rounds, until Miller bowed out on the word quisling – she went with the double-z – he brought the foursome to the front after Round 15. He obviously knew the talent that was on hand. So did the defending champion. “They were really, really good spellers,” she said. “I started sweating and got really nervous that I would spend one wrong.” But she relied on two tried-and-true techniques to prevail. First, she clasped her hands together and told herself she was “cool, calm, and in control,” a trick she learned at Gymnastics Divine in Dixon. “Only I couldn’t bite my nails this time, because I painted them,” she said. Understandable, given the packed auditorium at Dixon High. BEE CONTINUED ON 3