NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 24 THE GLEANER 190TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE Kevin Chung of St Cecelia Preparatory School, St Andrew, won the All-Island Spelling Bee championship on August 13 at the SheratonKingston Hotel in 1975. He is also the Island Boys’ Champion. Runners-up are: Opal Nelson of Corinaldi Avenue Primary School, St James (left) and Juliet Fagan of Alexandria School, St Ann, was placed third. FILE PHOTOS 1966 SPELLING CHAMPION of Jamaica, 11-year-old Janice Henry, of Vaz Preparatory School, Kingston, (seated centre) is seen with her teacher, Mrs Beverley Ulett (behind her) and the runners-up and their teachers. At left is second-prize winner, Eugenie Wallace, 13, of Springfield school, St Elizabeth, with her teacher, Mrs Ethel Farquharson, and at right, third-prize winner, 11-year-old Jennifer Burton of Robin’s Hall school, Manchester, with her teacher Miss Myrtle Jenings. The Spelling Bee is sponsored yearly by the Children’s Own newspaper of the Gleaner Company Ltd. THE BIG TEST: Eight of the finalists face the Spelling Master, Mr Clifton Neita, during the final rounds of the contest on Wednesday, August 14, 1968. This was the first time, in the history of the Spelling Bee, that so many contestants were still in the running after 5 p.m. Scripps Howard Spelling Bee Champion Jody-Anne Maxwell and coach Rev Glen Archer on their arrival in Jamaica after competing in the American National Spelling Bee Competition. Maxwell made history as the first non-American to win the prestigious competition, 1998. The Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee flashback
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