Oklahoma Historical SocietyHistory Day 2008 Winners

Oklahoma National History Day 2008


SENIOR PAPERS

1st Place Sean Bender, "Standing at the Brink of Disaster: Kennedy, Khrushchen and the Cuban Missile Crisis" Teacher: Christine Bond, Edmond Memorial High School. District 5

2nd Place William Righthouse "The Bloody Conflict of Belleau Wood" Teacher: Hope Owen, Tahlequah Catholic Home School. District 8.

3rd Place Lauryn Brown "We the People of the United States": Dred Scott and The American Constitution" Teacher: Dianne Hill, Muskogee High School. District 8

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

1st Place Francesca Barger "Slacks, Calluses, and a Mouthful of Rivets" Teacher: Rachel Keeney, Evangelistic Temple School. District 7

2nd Place Hailie Hendrickson "Patriots....Separate and Unequal" Teacher: Dani Hendrickson, Beth E L. District 8

3rd Place John Woldum "Resting Evil: the Norwegian Fight for Freedom" Teacher: Rachel Keeney, Evangelistic Temple School. District 7

SENIOR GROUP EXHIBITS

1st Place Marcus Autry, Will Robinson "761st Come Out Fighting" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2.

2nd Place Lindsey Timbes, Lauren Carper "Sitting Down: The Act of Standing Up!" Teacher: Wanda Wood, Broken Bow High School. District 10

3rd Place Christy Allison, Kristina Martinez, Bryttany Harris, Briana Mooney "From the Endzone Looking Out" Teacher: Patsy Lyles, Burns Flat-Dill City High School. District 2

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

1st Place Katelynn Sanderson "Voice to Those Who Suffer In the Gutter of Human Life: Uncompromising Career of Kate Barnard" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

2nd Place Joey Ross "See It Now: The Conflict and Compromise of News Broadcasting's Finest Moment" Teacher: Bonnie Ross, Minco High School. District 2

3rd Place Bethany Ragle "My Sax is a Sex Symbol" Teacher: Cris Jackson, Jenks Freshman Academy. District 7

SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE

1st Place Tyler Slawson, Mika Knight, Misty Maples, Madison Newton "A Thief in the Night" Teacher: Katie Brister, Silo. District 10

2nd Place Destiney Smith, Ciara Lindley, Holly Gordon, Maria Atondo, Matthew Rowland "Rosie The Rose of Thorns" Teacher: Jackie Seabourn, Pathway Middle College. District 11

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY

1st Place Marla Ross "Conflict, Comproise, Terror and Justice: The Story of Molly Maguires" Teacher: Bonnie Ross, Minco High School. District 2

2nd Place Zebulun Benbrook "The Falklands War: All Conflict and No Compromise" Teacher: Charlotte Smith, CSAS. District 11

3rd Place Kelby Mendez "The Team That Would Not Compromise" Teacher: Patsy Lyles, Burns Flat-Dill City High School. District 2

SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY

1st Place Kyleigh Humphrey, Karlea Eisenman "From a Ripple to a WAVE: The Conflicts and Compromises of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" Teacher: Bonnie Ross, Minco High School. District 2

2nd Place Jessica Chantnacran, Jessie Sutton, Carly Williams "He Strove For Peace but Found War: Black Kettle and the Cheyenne Ordeal" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

3rd Place Supreeth Mannava, Neil Pruthi, Aaron Roe "Cuban Missile Crisis" Teacher: Charlotte Smith, CSAS. District 4

SENIOR WEBPAGE

1st Place William Whitten "The Yalta Conference, Unity of Nations" Teacher: Cris Jackson, Jenks Freshman Academy. District 7

2nd Place Dawson Metcalf, Hunter Hutchings "Truman Decision" Teacher: Wanda Wood, Broken Bow High School. District 10

3rd Place Ryan Johnsen, Sam Moore, Patrick Curry "Destruction of an Evil Empire" Teacher: Cris Jackson, Jenks Freshman Academy. District 7

JUNIOR PAPERS

1st Place Kira Grissom "Galileo and the Catholic Church: Conflict & Compromise in the Seventeenth Century" Teacher: LaRadius Allen, District 11

2nd Place Patrick Bender" From Burning Tempers to Burning Tents: The Struggle for Compromise after the Ludlow Coalfield Massacre" Teacher Sara Harjo School St. Elizabeth Ann Seton District 5

3rd Place Melissa Doan "Eleanor Roosevelt: "First Lady of the World" and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "The International Magna Carta of All Mankind"" Teacher: Linda McElroy, St. Philip Neri, District 5

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

1st Place Kacey Rogers"Dirt in the Skirts" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

2nd Place Hayley Sharpe"Elizabeth I: The Conflicts and Compromise in the Life of a Queen" Teacher: Rachel Keeney, Evangelistic Temple School. District 7

3rd Place Sarah Ford"Conflict and Compromise: Separate Is Not Equal" Teacher: Tracy Allen, Minco Middle School. District 2

JUNIOR GROUP EXHIBITS

1st Place Natalie Haworth, Trenton Knight, Trevor Eddy "Fighting For The Right to Fight: The Tuskegee Airmen" Teacher: Sharla Haworth, Independent. District 2

2nd Place Charlotte Welch, Emily Lawson"Conflicts and Compromises of Japanese Internment" Teacher: Julie Guild, Carl Albert Jr. High School. District 5

3rd Place Kylee Jenkins, Meagan Weaver "Hidden Children of the Holocaust" Teacher: Molly Endlsey, Haskell Middle School. District 7

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

1st Place Jake Sanderson "When Children's Lives are Risked for Bread" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

2nd Place Paige Gosney "Compromise on the Homefront: From Housewife Ann to Rosie The Riviter" Teacher Dora Fuqua School Canton Elementary District 2

3rd Place Chrystina Kilpatrick "Ada's Dream: Her Conflict and Compromise with Oklahoma's Separate But Equal Laws" Teacher: Tracy Allen, Minco Middle School. District 2

JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE

1st Place Paige Sutton, Leah Shifflett, Taylor Bromlow "Soldiers Without Guns" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

2nd Place Bethany Syzemore, Tory Pierce "When Women Played Hardball" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

3rd Place Christiana Hayden, Sandra King, Ashley Neudorf, Hannah Holman "Iron Jawed Ladies" Teacher: Bobby Ogle, Washita Heights. District 2

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY

1st Place Dania Maduro "A Crime of Opportunity" Teacher: Molly Endlsey, Haskell Middle School. District 7

2nd Place Shania Schoonmaker "On Silver Wings and a Prayer" Teacher: Dora Fuqua, Canton Elementary. District 2

3rd Place Brendan Donahue "History Machine: The Battle of Actium" Teacher: Laurann Donahue, Kolbe Academy. District 5

JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY

1st Place Tyler Schrader, Rachael Luther "The Love on Haight: The Haight-Ashbury Movement" Teacher: Molly Endlsey, Haskell Middle School. District 7

2nd Place Samantha Cowen, Lauren Oven "Pirates: Monarchs of the Sea" Teacher: Molly Endlsey, Haskell Middle School. District 7

3rd Place Talynne Dirickson, Christian Greuter "The Conflict and Compromise of Women Air Force Service Pilots" Teacher: Tracy Allen, Minco Middle School. District 2

JUNIOR WEBPAGE

1st Place Michael Whitten, Nathan Hughes, Nathan Roberts "Seeing Red: The Life of Joseph R. McCarthy" Teacher: Judy den Daas, Jenks Middle School. District 7

2nd Place Braden Harris, Keenen Longpine "Music Censorship" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2

3rd Place Meagan Garrison, Lauren Black "Remembering Anne Frank" Teacher: Penny Heath, Canton High School. District 2