ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, March 24, 1996                 TAG: 9603250069
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: B-1  EDITION: METRO

SAYING A MOUTHFUL

LENGTH: Short :   23 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  ERIC BRADY/Staff. Courtney Olson, a sixth-grader at 

          Giles County's Macy McClaugherty School, spells "gastriloquist" (a 

          synonym for ventriloquist) to win the regional spelling bee 

          Saturday. Second-place finisher Brandon Winters, a sixth-grader at 

          Bedford Elementary School, waits behind her. The Roanoke Times, 

          which sponsored the event, will send Courtney and a chaperone to 

          Washington, D.C., in May for the national spelling bee. Courtney, 

          daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Olson, received $100, a Scripps Howard

          gift certificate, a CD-ROM library from Virgin Sound, a dictionary 

          and flowers from the Sheraton Airport Inn. Brandon, son of the Rev. 

          and Mrs. Michael Winters, received a dictionary. color.
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