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...National Spelling Bee Champion...
...Dennis T. Thompson ’05 keeps finding easy girls at the Science Center stamp machine. In a curiously parallel situation, Greg Z. Salazar ’03 keeps finding stamps at Bee punch events...
...National Geography Bee Champion...
...Smith’s entourage couldn’t intimidate Oluseyi Fayajnu, who goes by Seyi. Large crowds are nothing new to this New Jersey native. After winning the 1996 National Geography Bee and a $25,000 college scholarship presented in the form of an oversized check, Fayanju waded through a sea of publicity. In addition to interviews with the BBC and the Voice of America, Fayanju appeared on “Good Morning America,” CNN and CBS News. “It was a whirlwind year,” he remembers...
After arriving 40 minutes late to the arena, Wendy Guey—the 1996 National Spelling Bee Champion—posed the word “lisle” to Redd. “Could I have a definition please?” he asked, not recognizing the word as a small, tightly twisted thread usually made of long-staple cotton (duh). “L-I-E-L-E,” he guessed. “Actually,” Guey said, “that’s not right. But close...