Seniors score big as "WordMasters"
      Several students representing Mt. Michael Benedictine School recently won high honors in this year's WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry.

      In this year's first meet, held in October, senior Tim Agnew placed among the 90 top twelfth graders in the entire country. Seniors Paul Faryna, Sam Weitkemper, and Aaron Lockee all earned honorable mention for high achievement as well. More than 55,000 students from 46 states entered the meet. The school's participation was supervised by Richard Thell, O.S.B.

      The premise behind the WordMasters Challenge is the attentive reading and sensitivity to language are among the most important skills student acquire in school. The Mount's students will participate in three more WordMasters meets in the coming months, and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those students who achieve and/or improve the most in the course of the year.