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On behalf of my Auxiliary counterpart Teresa Stevenson
and myself, we would like to congratulate the winners of our Annual VFW Voice
of Democracy, Patriot's Pen and Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education
Teacher of the Year contests. As a Department, we had 425 Voice of
Democracy entries that were reported, 2,180 Patriot's Pen entries and 12
Teacher of the Year entries. I can tell you this, after reviewing all the
entries that made it to the Department level, our judges had their work cut out
for them.
So, without further ado, here are our winners:
Teacher of the Year
Elementary
2nd Place Lorie Hester Post 9969 D10
1st Place Beverly Hammontree Post 4884 D3
Middle School
2nd Place Brett Stokes Post 2027 D8
1st Place Ronna Haney Post 8798 D7
High School
2nd Place Brian Rukes Post 382 D13
1st Place David Bounds Post 4890 D10
Patriots Pen
3rd Place Heavyn Stone Post 8580 D14
2nd Place Barrett Love Post 1335 D15
1st Place Addisyn Smith Post 6141 D13
Voice of Democracy
3rd Place Makinley Kennedy Post 5263 D14
2nd Place Molly Moore Post 2855 D8
1st Place Journi James Post 8798 D7
Congratulations to all of our winners. The Department
will be contacting all of them shortly to go over arrangements to attend our
Awards Ceremony and Banquet at our upcoming Mid-Winter Conference next month.
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V/R,
Michael L. Merit
State Senior Vice Commander
VFW Department of Oklahoma