Eleven-year-old Laila Mayfield, a fifth grade student at Felix A. Williams Elementary, won the 51st Annual Lillian A. Dassori Elementary Spelling Bee held at Jensen Beach High School on Thursday, January 12, 2017.
Sixty-five fourth and fifth grade students from the Martin County School District’s 12 elementary schools and fifth graders from Indiantown Middle School participated in the spelling bee. Special guest, Ashleigh Walters, news anchor with WPTV News channel 5, was the enunciator for the event.
Mayfields’ final championship word was “memoir.”
Julia Adkins, also from Felix A. Williams Elementary finished second in the spelling bee.
The bee was named after Lillian A Dassori, a founding member and charter president of the Soroptomist International of Stuart and a Martin County Supervisor of Schools.
Sixty-five fourth and fifth grade students from the Martin County School District’s 12 elementary schools and fifth graders from Indiantown Middle School participated in the spelling bee. Special guest, Ashleigh Walters, news anchor with WPTV News channel 5, was the enunciator for the event.
Mayfields’ final championship word was “memoir.”
Julia Adkins, also from Felix A. Williams Elementary finished second in the spelling bee.
The bee was named after Lillian A Dassori, a founding member and charter president of the Soroptomist International of Stuart and a Martin County Supervisor of Schools.
