University Announces History Day District 9 Winners
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., March 10, 2008 – Junior high and high school students from across the region participated in the National History Day in Missouri District 9 Contest March 7 at Southeast Missouri State University.
Students competed for the chance to advance to the state National History Day competition April 12 in Columbia, Mo.
The theme for History Day 2008 was "Conflict and Compromise in History," and students competed in one of five categories: exhibit, media, performance, historical paper or Web sites.
An awards ceremony was held at the end of the day in Academic Hall Auditorium
For more information, contact the District 9 coordinator Dr. Joel Rhodes in the Department of History at Southeast Missouri State University at (573) 651-2715, or e-mail jrhodes@semo.edu.
Winners in each of the categories follows:
History Day District 9 2008
| Elementary Exhibit - Individual | |
| Third Place | “Wild Horse Annie: A Story of Conflict and Compromise in the Modern American West” Cheyenne Corbett Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Second Place | “What Harm Could Come To This Holy Place?” Paige Medlin Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “A Fight Over a Frolic: Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet” Toby Miller Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Elementary Exhibit - Group | |
| Third Place | “Taking a Stand for Freedom: the Civil War” Gray Hallman & Austin Wheeler Teacher/s: Brenda Campbell Deer Creek Christian Academy Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Second Place | “A Bargain With Bonaparte: Territory x 2” Caitlyn Earnheart & Casey Vandergriff Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “The Devil Was Named Duke: Conflict in the Black Patch” Allen Rock & Cody Young Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Junior Paper | |
| Third Place | “Baseball, Apple Pie, Chevrolets: the Women are Here to Play” Kassi Lawrence Teacher/s: Micah Breece Gideon High School Gideon, MO |
| Second Place | “An Unexpected Hero” Brett Ruch Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth Bloomfield Middle School Bloomfield, MO |
| First Place | “The Injustice of Life” Penny Robinson Teacher/s: Brenda Campbell Deer Creek Christian Academy Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Junior Exhibit - Individual | |
| Third Place | “Salem Witch Trials” Megan Matlock Teacher/s: Emily Goode Cape Central Junior High Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Second Place | “The Battle of Stalingrad” Landry Thurston Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover Bernie High School Bernie, MO |
| First Place | “Israel’s Six Day War” Elizabeth Koehler Teacher/s: Terry Maire Cape Christian School Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Junior Exhibit - Group | |
| Third Place | “‘Someone Just Blinked’: the Cuban Missile Crisis” Josh Earnheart & Brooke Walker Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Second Place | “On the Road to Rapprochement: the Treaty of Ghent” Emily McCord & Stephanie Hayes Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “Here I Stand. I Can Do No Other” Sadie Vandergriff & Miquela Green Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Junior Performance - Individual | |
| Third Place | “A Woman Is a Substitute, Like Plastic Instead of Metal” Morgan Marcus Teacher/s: James Hilfiker, Jim Breece, Eva Rausch Gideon High School Gideon, MO |
| Second Place | “With the Stroke of a Pen: the Uncompromising Robert Carter III” Dylan Kennedy Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “The Speed Queen: The Story of Jackie Cochran” Maggie Thorn Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth Bloomfield Middle School Bloomfield, MO |
| Junior Performance - Group | |
| Third Place | “Women of the Civil War” Ellie Kidd, Faith Reynolds, Kristyn Sanders, Lizzie Nussbaum Teacher/s: Emily Goode Cape Central Junior High Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Second Place | “Above and Beyond With Flying Colors” Alexa Grissom, Hannah Moore, Taylor Robinson Teacher/s: James Hilfiker, Jim Breece, Eva Rausch Gideon High School Gideon, MO |
| First Place | “The Hull House” Robyn Chism & Morgan McClard Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth Bloomfield Middle School Bloomfield, MO |
| Junior Media - Individual | |
| Third Place | “The Constitutional Convention: Conflict and Compromise” Mark Blanton Teacher/s: Debra Skaggs St. Mary Cathedral Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Second Place | “Dress Rehearsal: Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Russian Revolution” Andrea McCord Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “To Gaze Idly at a Crime” Kassidy Murphy Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Junior Media - Group | |
| Third Place | “Conflict in Salem! Salem Witchcraft Trails” Landon Woods, Will Barnett, Austin White Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover Bernie High School Bernie, MO |
| Second Place | “A Walk With the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” Becky Kennedy, Sadie Schaefer, Courtney Scheeter, Regina Seyer Teacher/s: Gladys Hency St. Ambrose Chaffee, MO |
| First Place | “The Birth of the Stars and Stripes Newspaper” Lychia Graviett & Caitelyn Salazar Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth Bloomfield Middle School Bloomfield, MO |
| Junior Web Site | |
| Third Place | “The Life and Times of a Legend: Jackie Robinson” Austin Hatchel Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover Bernie High School Bernie, MO |
| Second Place | “Battle of Okinawa: (Operation Iceberg)” Mitchell Dirnberger & Grayson Glueck Teacher/s: Gladys Hency St. Ambrose Chaffee, MO |
| First Place | “Mercury 13: One Small Step for ‘Womankind’” Amanda Walton Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Senior Paper | |
| Third Place | “The Union Spy (Elizabeth Van Lew)” Rachel Vernon Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover Bernie High School Bernie, MO |
| Second Place | “Rosa Parks: Taking a Stand By Refusing to Stand” Dustin Ferguson Teacher/s: Darrin Shipman Clarkton C-4 Clarkton, MO |
| First Place | “Murder- It’s Just a Shot Away: Altamont Music Festival – December 6, 1969” Lita Eakens Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Senior Performance - Individual | |
| Second Place | “‘It Is Marvelous in Our Eyes’: a Crown for Gloriana” Grace Powell Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “Unfinished Business” Slayton Boone Teacher/s: Jim Breece, Micha Breece, Eva Rausch Gideon High School Gideon, MO |
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Senior Performance - Group | |
| Second Place | “Television vs. Teleprompter: a Game of Values” Cassie Vise & Eric Pipkins Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “‘The Broke Pane of Glass’: Conflict and Compromise in the Women’s Movement” Ashley Moore & Anna Godbey Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Senior Media - Individual | |
| Third Place | “444: A Campaign of Terror” Krystal Wright Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Second Place | “Good People Do Not Always Do Good Things” Kelsey Murphy Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “From Persecutor to Prosecuted: An Israeli Compromise and the Trial of Adolph Eichmann” Aaron Lerma Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Senior Media - Group | |
| Third Place | “A Well Paid Slave is Nonetheless a Slave” Cassy Woolverton, Lindsey Wilson, Jordan Boone Teacher/s: Jim Breece, Eva Rausch, James Hilfiker, Gideon High School Gideon, MO |
| Second Place | “The Buck Stops Here: Harry S Truman and the Atomic Bomb” Parker Evans, Kaleigh Evans, Jordan Blunt Teacher/s: Terry Carmack & Cara Merritt Richland R-1 Essex, MO |
| First Place | “A Belated Birthday Present: the Compromise That Brought Justice to Birmingham” Brittany Burnett & Justin Earnheart Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Senior Web Site | |
| Third Place | “To Rise From the Ashes” Josh Simpson, Kevin Sparks, Daniel Figueroa, Jeremy Cornman, Bobby Morales Teacher/s: Darrin Shipman Clarkton C-4 Clarkton, MO |
| Second Place | “Dred Scott: Beyond the Trials” Justin Cook & Aaron Parson Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover Bernie High School Bernie, MO |
| First Place | “Vietnam War: the War to Remember” Jessica Hunt, Alicia Rasmussen, Haley Stockton Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover Bernie High School Bernie, MO |
| Senior Exhibit - Group | |
| Third Place | “Baseball Below the Rio Grande: Raiding the National Pastime” Brandon Bennett & Houston Buck Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Second Place | “Fourth and Long: a ‘Super’ Sized Compromise” Josh Long & Ross Carter Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| First Place | “Man in the Middle: Daniel Webster and the Compromise of 1850” Marlyn Dickens & Jordan Passley Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Senior Exhibit - Individual | |
| Third Place | “Paperclip Project: a Moral Compromise to Win a Cold War Conflict” Zach Williams Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy Risco R-II Risco, MO |
| Second Place | “To the Back of the Bus No More: Rosa Parks” Logan Randolph Teacher/s: Lori Randolph Clearwater Piedmont, MO |
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First Place |
“A Well Paid Slave” Macy Ellsworth Teacher/s: Jim Breece, Eva Rausch, Micah Breece Gideon High School Gideon, MO |
Outstanding Regional History Project 2008
“The Birth of the Stars and Stripes Newspaper”
Lychia Graviett & Caitelyn Salazar
Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth
Bloomfield Middle School Bloomfield, MO
The winner of the Sweepstakes Trophy, awarded to the school with the most winning entries in the 2008 History Day Competition is:
Risco R-II Risco, MO
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy