Pleasant Grove Review | 1937-06-18 | Page 7 | Spelling Champ Wins $500 Prize |

Type	issue
Date	1937-06-18
Paper	Pleasant Grove Review
Language	eng
City	Pleasant Grove
County	Utah
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Creator	L. W. Gaisford
ARK	ark:/87278/s6rv2390
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv2390

Article Title	Spelling Champ Wins $500 Prize
Type	article
Date	1937-06-18
Paper	Pleasant Grove Review
Language	eng
City	Pleasant Grove
County	Utah
Page	7
Creator	L. W. Gaisford
OCR Text	Show Spelling Champ Wins $500 Prize ' pTC " i 4 ... --f fnW:;y.$ I 7f Au T Wl 1' First prize of $500 was awarded Waneeta Buckley of Louisville, Ky., (right), recent winner of the title of "Best Speller in the Nation." She won the thirteenth national spelling bee at Washington, sponsored by newspapers at the new National museum. Waneeta's runner-up was diminutive Betty Grunstra of Passaic, N. J. "Plebeian," spelled correctly cor-rectly by Waneeta, after Betty missed, decided the contest Betty's second prize amounted to $300.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv2390/8753075