Moody Middle School eighth-grader Taran Shivkumar finished tied for 30th at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., correctly spelling three words and answering two questions before being eliminated in the eighth round when he misspelled the word cryosel, which refers to cryohydrate, a crystalline solid.
Shivkumar was
When Ellen Bohon was growing up in Hopewell in the 1960s and 1970s, “women didn’t get to do very much in sports,” she recalled.
Well, maybe most women. Bohon was different.
She played baseball, softball and basketball, snow skied, water skied and even played tackle football with the boys
Anne Stewart Kyber owes her 19-year career as elementary school teacher to Ms. Carswell, her own second-grade teacher at Tuckahoe Elementary School.
“Looking back at who I am as a teacher. . . she just made me love school,” said Kyber, who for the past 10 years has been teaching at Crestview
Since 2009, Meghan Gouldin has been “the heartbeat” of Ward Elementary School in Varina, teaching much more than just her physical education classes, according to a coworker who nominated her for recognition.
“She doesn't just teach fitness,” the person wrote, “she teaches belonging.”
Gouldin realized at an early