Northampton Education Foundation’s 24th Annual Adult Spelling Bee on Oct. 21 at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity was a great success! Thanks to our generous community, we raised approximately $12,000 for NEF’s Small Grants to Educators program, which supports innovative teaching and learning initiatives in Northampton’s public schools and Smith Vocational & Agricultural High School.
Congratulations to the Ward 3 Bees (Ellie Cook, Kim Goggins, and James Pentland), sponsored by the Laurie Loisel Campaign. They won by spelling “rhombencephalon” correctly.
Please join us in thanking our sponsors:
Major Sponsors: Friends of Marcia Burick, Marisa Labozzetta & Martin Wohl, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, D.A. Sullivan & Sons, and Fierst Bloomberg Ohm LLP.
Team Sponsors: A2Z Science & Learning Toy Store, Barry and Ellen Nigrosh, Bonham & Douglas, Brian Leaf SAT Prep, Broadside Bookshop, Dale Melcher & Bill Newman, Gage-Wiley & Co., Greenfield Cooperative Bank, Gwen Agna & Tom Marantz, Hawley Hooligans, High Five Books, Laurie Loisel Campaign, Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra Campaign Committee, Osaka Lunch Club, Paradise Copies, Red Barn Honey, River Valley Co-op, Talk the Talk on WHMP, Tandem Bagel Company, Adam & Yesenia Greeff, the Community Classroom, The Dadz, the Lathrop Community, Northampton, the Northampton Information Hub, Thornes Marketplace, UMassFive College Federal Credit Union, Whalen Insurance, and Wohl Family Dentistry.
Thank you to Bombyx for hosting the Bee, to Herrell’s for their ice cream donation and Bueno Y Sano for their gift cards, to WHMP and Northampton Open Media for broadcasting the Bee, to Bread Euphoria for being our food vendor, and to everyone who volunteered and competed.
Dale Melcher, president, Martin Wohl, vice president, Megan Zinn, Queen Bee
Northampton Education Foundation