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Students participate in COLT Poetry Recitation Contest

Posted on Apr 13, 2006

On April 11 six students represented Lauralton Hall in the annual Poetry Recitation Contest sponsored by the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers (COLT). Rashea Banks, ’09, Nina Demeter, ’07 and Stephanie Dillon, ’07 presented poems of their own choosing in Spanish, while Laura Boynton, ’08, Dana Miraglia, ’07 and Rachelle Pierre, ’07 competed at various levels with selections of French poetry.

These girls joined with approximately 1200 students from across the state for a full afternoon hosted by the students and faculty of New Britain High School. Thirteen different languages comprised the scope of the day’s competition. The program consisted of State and City officials who welcomed the students and praised them for attaining this level of achievement, an elaborate competition schedule, a bag supper, entertainment by New Britain High School students studying performing arts and presentation of the various gold, silver and bronze medals for recitation. The medals were awarded based on accuracy, memorization and interpretation of the selected works. 

Laura Boynton and Stephanie Dillon captured silver medals in their respective French and Spanish categories and Nina Demeter proudly took home a bronze medal. All expressed high praise for their worthy competitors.               



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