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Musurlian Wins GUSD Spelling Bee
BY STAFF
- POSTED ON FEBRUARY 9, 2015POSTED IN: COMMUNITY, NEWS
armenianlife.com
GUSD Spelling Bee video highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLLg-3y9KA
June Musurlian is a 10-year-old 4th grader at R.D. White Elementary
School, one of 20 elementary schools in Glendale.After winning her
school's competition in January, she found herself at the Glendale
Unified School District Spelling Bee on Monday night, February 2nd,
competing against 5th and 6th graders. She was the lone 4th grader
among the 20 competitors.
Since its debut in 1977, only two 4th graders had ever won the
Districtwide Elementary Spelling Bee in Glendale. Musurlian's
successful attempt made her the third.
School officials run the event, which has been sponsored for those 39
years by Soroptomist International of Glendale, a local chapter of the
women's global service organization.
During nearly 20 rounds of spelling, Musurlian was thankful for a
triumvirate of "a" words: apothecary, acumen, and atmosphere. She won
by correctly spelling "acumen," which her last-standing opponent
misspelled. Then, she immediately spelled "atmosphere," for the win.
(click-on YouTube link at top of page)
In a competition that, in recent years (both locally & nationally),
has been dominated by Indian-Americans and other students of Asian
ancestry, June Musurlian is only the second Armenian-American to win
the GUSD Elementary Spelling Bee, since 6th grader Jack Demerjian did
it in 1992.
"I consider myself half Armenian, half Hungarian, and 100 percent
American," Musurlian said, who has lived nowhere but Glendale, since
she was born at Glendale Memorial Hospital in 2004.
"As far as I'm concerned, hard work is all that counts in preparing
for a spelling bee. Then it's 80 percent skill and 20 percent luck.
Some of the words other kids missed, I would have missed as well."
Musurlian will be among 25 district winners, who will gather in
Alhambra on March 25th to compete in the Los Angeles County Spelling
Bee. The winner of the county competition heads to Stockton for the
state finals.
http://www.armenianlife.com/2015/02/09/musurlian-wins-gusd-spelling-bee/
BY STAFF
- POSTED ON FEBRUARY 9, 2015POSTED IN: COMMUNITY, NEWS
armenianlife.com
GUSD Spelling Bee video highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLLg-3y9KA
June Musurlian is a 10-year-old 4th grader at R.D. White Elementary
School, one of 20 elementary schools in Glendale.After winning her
school's competition in January, she found herself at the Glendale
Unified School District Spelling Bee on Monday night, February 2nd,
competing against 5th and 6th graders. She was the lone 4th grader
among the 20 competitors.
Since its debut in 1977, only two 4th graders had ever won the
Districtwide Elementary Spelling Bee in Glendale. Musurlian's
successful attempt made her the third.
School officials run the event, which has been sponsored for those 39
years by Soroptomist International of Glendale, a local chapter of the
women's global service organization.
During nearly 20 rounds of spelling, Musurlian was thankful for a
triumvirate of "a" words: apothecary, acumen, and atmosphere. She won
by correctly spelling "acumen," which her last-standing opponent
misspelled. Then, she immediately spelled "atmosphere," for the win.
(click-on YouTube link at top of page)
In a competition that, in recent years (both locally & nationally),
has been dominated by Indian-Americans and other students of Asian
ancestry, June Musurlian is only the second Armenian-American to win
the GUSD Elementary Spelling Bee, since 6th grader Jack Demerjian did
it in 1992.
"I consider myself half Armenian, half Hungarian, and 100 percent
American," Musurlian said, who has lived nowhere but Glendale, since
she was born at Glendale Memorial Hospital in 2004.
"As far as I'm concerned, hard work is all that counts in preparing
for a spelling bee. Then it's 80 percent skill and 20 percent luck.
Some of the words other kids missed, I would have missed as well."
Musurlian will be among 25 district winners, who will gather in
Alhambra on March 25th to compete in the Los Angeles County Spelling
Bee. The winner of the county competition heads to Stockton for the
state finals.
http://www.armenianlife.com/2015/02/09/musurlian-wins-gusd-spelling-bee/