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District 1 History Day
February 23, 2008

Papers
Junior:
  1. Brandon Coffer (Linkhorne Middle School)
          Military Women: Nurses, Spies, and Soldiers
  2. Christopher Childress (Linkhorne Middle School)
          3 Lives Crossed: Kennedy, Oswald, Ruby

Senior:
  1. Sarah Lavender (Heritage High School)
          Betty Friedan’s Impact on Second Wave Feminism
  2. Zach Scharf (E. C. Glass High School)
          Greatest Thanks to U Thant
  3. Cyrus Hinkson (Heritage High School)
          The Battle over the Air Waves: The FCC vs. Private Radio Industry

Individual Websites
Junior:

  1. Jeffery Seals (Bedford Middle School)
          The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days of Conflict Then Compromise
  2. Samantha Casey (Linkhorne Middle School)
          The Great Northern War: The Turn of Power
  3. Cade Skalka (Bedford Middle School)
          The Bombing of Hiroshima

Senior:
  1. Liesel Anderson (Liberty High School)
          Terrible Tuber Tale: The Great Hunger
  2. Benjamin Karos (Heritage High School)
          McCarthyism: Conflict with the Executive Branch
  3. Candler Paige (Heritage High School)
          Matthew Brady, Civil War Photography, and the Impact They Both Had On the Conflict

Individual Exhibits
Junior:

  1. Alexa Dahlin (Linkhorne Middle School)
          It’s a Hard-Knock Life: Child Labor
  2. Sarah Thomas (Linkhorne Middle School)
          The Berlin Wall: A World Divided
  3. Joe Melton (Linkhorne Middle School)
          Korea: “The Forgotten War

Senior:
  1. Mary Seals (Liberty High School)
          Navajo: A Code That Could Not Be Compromised
  2. Megan Asano (E. C. Glass High School)
          Elizabethan Religious Settlement
  3. Will Ruchle (E. C. Glass High School)
          The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902: Miners Tired of Getting the Shaft

Individual Performances
Junior: No entries

Senior:
  1. Lorin Cahow (Liberty High School)
          The Blue Ridge Parkway: To Be or Not To Be

Individual Documentaries
Junior:

  1. Megan Lee (Bedford Middle School)
          The City of Benares: Voyage of Death
  2. Madison Karnes (Bedford Middle School)
          The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  3. Audra Van Derweker (Bedford Middle School)
          S. S. St. Louis: Within Sight of Safety

Senior:
  1. Emily Overfelt (Liberty High School)
          Leni Riefenstahl and the Triumph of the Hill
  2. Mariah Skalka (Liberty High School)
          Mourning Cry: The Carlisle Indian School Story
  3. Jenna Knight (E. C. Glass High School)
          A Compromise of Values: Yellow Journalism

Group Websites
Junior:

  1. Anna Zaryczny and Taylor Myers (Bedford Middle School)
          The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Conflict! Compromise
  2. John Osinga, Thacher Jennings, and Matthew Tatom (Linkhorne Middle School)
          Salem Witch Trials

Senior:
  1. Jimmy Gaston and Sian Bennett (Heritage High School)
          Freemason: Secretly Involved
  2. Tyler Terry, Stefan Moscalu, and Myles Westgate (Heritage High School)
          Christianity in the Byzantine Empire

Group Exhibit
Junior:
  1. Sasha Sander, Justine Adams, Danielle Gibbons, and Patrick Amerell (Linkhorne Middle School)
          A Failed Compromise: The Nazi\Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
  2. Jenna Angell and Katherine George (Linkhorne Middle School)
          Jailing the Japanese: Internment of WW II
  3. Lindsay Riordan and Carson Creasy (Linkhorne Middle School)
          If the Sun Comes Up Tomorrow: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Senior:
  1. Anna Wade and Anna Fairchild (E.C Glass High School)
          On the Brink of a Nation: Resolving the Question of Power and Representation in Young America
  2. Hannah Bondurant, Kayla Ramirez, and Megan Kervin (Heritage High School)
          Woolworth’s Greensboro 1960
  3. Emily Hughes and Amy Figgatt (E. C. Glass High School)
          Espionage in the Revolutionary War

Group Performances
Junior: No entries

Senior:

  1. Kenzie Van Derweker, Evan Van Derweker, and Phoebe Weber (Liberty High School)
          Jonestown: Conflict and Compromise

Group Documentaries
Junior: Junior: No entries

Senior:
  1. Stephen Wilson, Sam Carroll, Stefan Phelps, Kyle Tenny, and Yi Shintae (Heritage High School)
          Between Hammer and Anvil: The Testimony of Joe Bonarro
  2. 2. Ian Bonner and James Rapiejko (E. C. Glass High School)
          Reagan and Gorbachev: From Conflict to Compromise
  3. Christy Wilson, Danielle Goradezzi, Natasha Chowdry, and Ester Jeoung (Heritage High School)
          Pocahontas: Caught Between Two Cultures

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