Tess MYER Wins Writing Award, 2006
MYER, WHITSON, ANGELO, DOLECHECK, HOWIE
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/3/2012 at 18:31:00
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 16, 2006Myer wins writing award
Tess MYER, a ninth grade student of Mount Ayr Community high school, was congratulated by state senator Jeff ANGELO of Creston and state representative Cecil DOLECHECK of Mount Ayr at the state capitol last week for her winning entry in the writing women back into history project. MYER placed second in the eighth and ninth grade science and engineering division of the writing contest.
Shown above, from left, are Senator Jeff ANGELO, MYER'S teacher Fay HOWIE, Tess MYER, and MYER'S grandmother Beth WHITSON.
MYER wrote her essay on astronaut Peggy WHITSON, her aunt.
Photograph courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012
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