PLACED IN CONTEST–Red Bud Elementary students Gabriella Hess and Ryan Murphy took second and third place in this year’s Patriot’s Pen contest. Pictured with them are Auxiliary Scholarship Co-Chairman Cathey Newhouse, Auxiliary 6632 President Kathryn Rowold, teachers Katie Liefer and Jill Nobbe, and Auxiliary Scholarship Co-Chairman Jeanette Chartrand.
ADVANCED TO DISTRICT–Trinity Lutheran School student Emily Mehring won first place in this year’s Patriot’s Pen contest and has advanced to the district level. Pictured with Mehring are teacher Andrew Wiggenhorn, Auxiliary 6632 President Kathryn Rowold, Trinity Principal Dr. Robin Booth, and Auxiliary 6632 Scholarship Co-Chairmen Jeanette Chartrand and Cathey Newhouse.
Auxiliary to Red Bud VFW Post 6632 is proud to announce the winners from their 2024 Patriot’s Pen contest.
The Patriot’s Pen essay contest gives students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades in public, home school, private and parochial schools the opportunity to write a 300 to 400 word theme based essay expressing their views on democracy while competing for worthwhile awards and prizes. The theme for this year’s essay was “My Voice in America’s Democracy?”
For more on the contest, please see this week’s print edition.