Montgomery Academy Speech &
Debate Wins 16th State Championship
Bellingrath Band
Director Receives
Arts Education
Award
The Alabama Alliance for Arts Education has
named Bellingrath Middle School Director
of Bands D.K. Grissett the winner of the 2016
Alabama Arts Impact Award. According to
the Alliance, the award recognizes group’s
or individual’s “outstanding commitment
and dedication for innovative and creative
programming, curriculum, teaching, and/or
presenting in and through the arts in Alabama.”
“I really love his commitment to our students
and his dedication,” Principal Ibrahim Lee said. “I
don’t think he understands the number of students
he has reached who used to be problems. It has
changed the culture of the school.”
Congratulations to the Speech & Debate team on winning their 16th state
title in the past 21 years! Teams from across all of Alabama competed in the
60th Annual State Tournament. Montgomery Academy won the Betty Gunn
Congress Sweepstakes Award, the Individual Events Sweepstakes Award, the
Debate Sweepstakes Award, and the Overall Sweepstakes Award.
Individual Awards went to: Varsity Senate - William Moore - State Champion;
Novice Senate - Madison Hall - State Champion; Informative Speaking Caroline Deale - State Champion; Program Oral Interpretation - Madison Hall
- State Champion; Prose Interpretation - Kyla Cole - State Champion; Poetry
Interpretation - Madison Hall - State Champion; Dramatic Interpretation Madison Hall - State Champion; Varsity Lincoln/Douglas Debate - Henry
Hamlett - State Champion; Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate - Anna Kate
Lindsey & Ellen Park - State Champion; Novice Public Forum Debate - James
Torbert & Madison Hall - State Champion
Congratulations to Madison Hall who won state championships in FIVE
EVENTS and WON the Alabama Student of the Year! This is the first time in
the history of speech & debate in Alabama that a single person has won five
different events including Student Congress, Debate and Individual Events!
Elementary Students at
Alabama Christian Academy
Serve the Community
Service to others and plant life discovery have been goals set at Alabama
Christian Academy Elementary. Over the last few months’ students have
planted and grown vegetables including beans, potatoes, cucumbers, and green
peppers. Over 250 pounds of vegetation have been donated to the Montgomery
Area Food Bank since the fall.
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Fall 2016
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