Middle School Reading Challenge

Spring 2001 Statewide Winners

Merit-Based Winners:

James Funk, Hillcrest Middle School, Simpsonville

Rachel Huskey, Greenville Middle Academy, Greenville

Kristen Reynolds, Johnakin Middle School, Marion

Soring-Hat Winners:

Markie Gaddis, Woodmont Middle School, Piedmont

Kiefer Whitmore, HIllcrest Middle School, Simpsonville

Rachel Rauscher, Lexington Middle School, Lexington

Derick Seals, John E. Ewing Middle School, Gaffney

Congratulations to our statewide winners, and thank you to everyone who participated in the first Middle School Reading Challenge.  Governor Hodges will host a lunch for the winners and their sponsoring teachers on May 9, 2001. 

Governor Hodges shakes hands with Traci Cooper following the Sorting-Hat drawing.  Cooper is a member of the Middle School Reading Challenge Advisory Board and was recently named South Carolina's Teacher of the Year.  Other members of the advisory board present at the announcement were Christy Clonts of the State Department of Education and the board's chair, Pat Scales of the SC Governor's School for Arts and Humanities (standing left to right).