Southeast Missouri State University

August 15, 2003–August 14, 2011 News Archive

University Announces History Day District 9 Winners

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., March 10, 2008 – Junior high and high school students from across the region participated in the National History Day in Missouri District 9 Contest March 7 at Southeast Missouri State University.

Students competed for the chance to advance to the state National History Day competition April 12 in Columbia, Mo.

The theme for History Day 2008 was "Conflict and Compromise in History," and students competed in one of five categories: exhibit, media, performance, historical paper or Web sites.

An awards ceremony was held at the end of the day in Academic Hall Auditorium

For more information, contact the District 9 coordinator Dr. Joel Rhodes in the Department of History at Southeast Missouri State University at (573) 651-2715, or e-mail jrhodes@semo.edu.

Winners in each of the categories follows:

History Day District 9 2008


Elementary Exhibit - Individual  
Third Place  “Wild Horse Annie: A Story of Conflict and Compromise in the Modern American West”
Cheyenne Corbett
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
Second Place  “What Harm Could Come To This Holy Place?”
Paige Medlin
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “A Fight Over a Frolic: Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet”
Toby Miller
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Elementary Exhibit - Group 
Third Place  “Taking a Stand for Freedom: the Civil War”
Gray Hallman & Austin Wheeler
Teacher/s: Brenda Campbell
Deer Creek Christian Academy  Cape Girardeau, MO 
Second Place  “A Bargain With Bonaparte: Territory x 2”
Caitlyn Earnheart & Casey Vandergriff
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “The Devil Was Named Duke: Conflict in the Black Patch”
Allen Rock & Cody Young
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Junior Paper 
Third Place  “Baseball, Apple Pie, Chevrolets: the Women are Here to Play”
Kassi Lawrence
Teacher/s: Micah Breece
Gideon High School   Gideon, MO 
Second Place  “An Unexpected Hero”
Brett Ruch
Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth
Bloomfield Middle School   Bloomfield, MO 
First Place  “The Injustice of Life”
Penny Robinson
Teacher/s: Brenda Campbell
Deer Creek Christian Academy   Cape Girardeau, MO 

Junior Exhibit - Individual 
Third Place  “Salem Witch Trials”
Megan Matlock
Teacher/s: Emily Goode
Cape Central Junior High   Cape Girardeau, MO 
Second Place  “The Battle of Stalingrad”
Landry Thurston
Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover
Bernie High School   Bernie, MO 
First Place  “Israel’s Six Day War”
Elizabeth Koehler
Teacher/s: Terry Maire
Cape Christian School   Cape Girardeau, MO 

Junior Exhibit - Group 
Third Place  “‘Someone Just Blinked’: the Cuban Missile Crisis”
Josh Earnheart & Brooke Walker
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
Second Place  “On the Road to Rapprochement: the Treaty of Ghent” 
Emily McCord & Stephanie Hayes
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO
First Place  “Here I Stand.  I Can Do No Other”
Sadie Vandergriff & Miquela Green
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Junior Performance - Individual 
Third Place  “A Woman Is a Substitute, Like Plastic Instead of Metal”
Morgan Marcus
Teacher/s: James Hilfiker, Jim Breece, Eva Rausch 
Gideon High School   Gideon, MO 
Second Place  “With the Stroke of a Pen: the Uncompromising Robert Carter III”
Dylan Kennedy
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “The Speed Queen:  The Story of Jackie Cochran”
Maggie Thorn
Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth
Bloomfield Middle School   Bloomfield, MO 

Junior Performance - Group 
Third Place  “Women of the Civil War”
Ellie Kidd, Faith Reynolds, Kristyn Sanders, Lizzie Nussbaum
Teacher/s: Emily Goode
Cape Central Junior High   Cape Girardeau, MO 
Second Place  “Above and Beyond With Flying Colors”
Alexa Grissom, Hannah Moore, Taylor Robinson
Teacher/s: James Hilfiker, Jim Breece, Eva Rausch 
Gideon High School   Gideon, MO 
First Place  “The Hull House”
Robyn Chism & Morgan McClard
Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth
Bloomfield Middle School   Bloomfield, MO 

Junior Media - Individual 
Third Place  “The Constitutional Convention: Conflict and Compromise”
Mark Blanton
Teacher/s: Debra Skaggs
St. Mary Cathedral   Cape Girardeau, MO 
Second Place  “Dress Rehearsal: Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Russian Revolution”
Andrea McCord
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “To Gaze Idly at a Crime”
Kassidy Murphy
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Junior Media - Group 
Third Place  “Conflict in Salem! Salem Witchcraft Trails”
Landon Woods, Will Barnett, Austin White
Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover
Bernie High School   Bernie, MO 
Second Place  “A Walk With the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”
Becky Kennedy, Sadie Schaefer, Courtney Scheeter, Regina Seyer
Teacher/s: Gladys Hency
St. Ambrose   Chaffee, MO 
First Place  “The Birth of the Stars and Stripes Newspaper”
Lychia Graviett & Caitelyn Salazar
Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth
Bloomfield Middle School   Bloomfield, MO 

Junior Web Site 
Third Place  “The Life and Times of a Legend: Jackie Robinson”
Austin Hatchel
Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover
Bernie High School   Bernie, MO 
Second Place  “Battle of Okinawa: (Operation Iceberg)”
Mitchell Dirnberger & Grayson Glueck
Teacher/s: Gladys Hency
St. Ambrose   Chaffee, MO
First Place  “Mercury 13: One Small Step for ‘Womankind’”
Amanda Walton
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Senior Paper 
Third Place  “The Union Spy (Elizabeth Van Lew)”
Rachel Vernon
Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover
Bernie High School   Bernie, MO 
Second Place  “Rosa Parks: Taking a Stand By Refusing to Stand”
Dustin Ferguson
Teacher/s: Darrin Shipman
Clarkton C-4     Clarkton, MO 
First Place  “Murder- It’s Just a Shot Away: Altamont Music Festival – December 6, 1969”
Lita Eakens
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Senior Performance - Individual 
Second Place  “‘It Is Marvelous in Our Eyes’: a Crown for Gloriana”
Grace Powell
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “Unfinished Business”
Slayton Boone
Teacher/s: Jim Breece, Micha Breece, Eva Rausch 
Gideon High School   Gideon, MO 

Senior Performance - Group

Second Place  “Television vs. Teleprompter: a Game of Values”
Cassie Vise & Eric Pipkins
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “‘The Broke Pane of Glass’: Conflict and Compromise in the Women’s Movement”
Ashley Moore & Anna Godbey
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Senior Media - Individual 
Third Place  “444: A Campaign of Terror”
Krystal Wright
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
Second Place  “Good People Do Not Always Do Good Things”
Kelsey Murphy
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “From Persecutor to Prosecuted: An Israeli Compromise and the Trial of Adolph Eichmann”
Aaron Lerma
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Senior Media - Group 
Third Place  “A Well Paid Slave is Nonetheless a Slave”
Cassy Woolverton, Lindsey Wilson, Jordan Boone
Teacher/s: Jim Breece, Eva Rausch, James Hilfiker,  
Gideon High School   Gideon, MO 
Second Place  “The Buck Stops Here: Harry S Truman and the Atomic Bomb”
Parker Evans, Kaleigh Evans, Jordan Blunt
Teacher/s: Terry Carmack & Cara Merritt 
Richland R-1   Essex, MO 
First Place  “A Belated Birthday Present: the Compromise That Brought Justice to Birmingham”
Brittany Burnett & Justin Earnheart
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Senior Web Site 
Third Place  “To Rise From the Ashes”
Josh Simpson, Kevin Sparks, Daniel Figueroa, Jeremy Cornman, Bobby Morales
Teacher/s: Darrin Shipman
Clarkton C-4     Clarkton, MO 
Second Place  “Dred Scott: Beyond the Trials”
Justin Cook & Aaron Parson
Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover
Bernie High School   Bernie, MO 
First Place  “Vietnam War: the War to Remember”
Jessica Hunt, Alicia Rasmussen, Haley Stockton
Teacher/s: Kristy Barnes, David Teeters, Mona Trover
Bernie High School   Bernie, MO 

Senior Exhibit - Group 
Third Place  “Baseball Below the Rio Grande: Raiding the National Pastime”
Brandon Bennett & Houston Buck
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
Second Place  “Fourth and Long: a ‘Super’ Sized Compromise”
Josh Long & Ross Carter
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
First Place  “Man in the Middle: Daniel Webster and the Compromise of 1850”
Marlyn Dickens & Jordan Passley
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 

Senior Exhibit - Individual
Third Place  “Paperclip Project: a Moral Compromise to Win a Cold War Conflict”
Zach Williams
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy
Risco R-II   Risco, MO 
Second Place  “To the Back of the Bus No More: Rosa Parks”
Logan Randolph
Teacher/s: Lori Randolph
Clearwater     Piedmont, MO 

First Place
and the winner of a scholarship to
Southeast Missouri State University
 

“A Well Paid Slave”
Macy Ellsworth
Teacher/s: Jim Breece, Eva Rausch, Micah Breece 
Gideon High School   Gideon, MO 

Outstanding Regional History Project 2008
“The Birth of the Stars and Stripes Newspaper”
Lychia Graviett & Caitelyn Salazar
Teacher/s: Paul Arnold & Susan Hoxworth
Bloomfield Middle School   Bloomfield, MO

The winner of the Sweepstakes Trophy, awarded to the school with the most winning entries in the 2008 History Day Competition is:
Risco R-II   Risco, MO
Teacher/s: Melanie Tipton, Kim Powell, Michael Murphy

 

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