19th Annual Spelling Bee, April 21, 2010

2009 Reaching Heights Spelling Bee champions Anne Kugler, Fran Lissemore, and Jim Wright.

Bee Season is near!

Each year since 1992, Reaching Heights has sponsored a community spelling bee for adults. Three-person teams pay $500 to enter the bee. Proceeds from this friendly competition - more than $250,000 to date - go directly into the Heights schools through our School Team Grant program.

Up to 24 teams can compete. All kinds of teams find their way to the stage at Heights High - teachers, lawyers, librarians, local merchants, musicians, elected officials, developers, PTA-sponsored parent-teacher teams and church and university affiliated spellers. Loud cheering sections add to the festivities.

The 19th annual bee will take place on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. at 7PM in the Cleveland Heights High School Auditorium. Admission is free, so join in the fun as the audience (which has the advantage of having each word projected on a screen that the spellers can’t see) watches the competition and cheers on their favorite team.

Read the rules for the 2010 Bee here.

Instructions for spellers are here.

For more information please contact us.

2009 Reaching Heights Spelling Bee poster, courtesy Marcus Thomas LLC

2008 Bee Poster Courtesy of Marcus Thomas

2009 Spelling Bee Donors

Thank you to all who made the 18th Annual Reaching Heights Community Spelling Bee such a success! Your contributions support our School Team Grant program. Thanks to you, teachers in our district are putting exciting and innovative instructional approaches to work in our classrooms. Mark your calendar for Wednesday, April 21, 2010, and join us at Height High for the 19th Annual Bee!

2009 Word Sponsors
Krista Hawthorne & Larry Sollisch
Craig & Janet Hoffman
Claude Lewis & Ella Damaser
Bruce & Lia Lowrie
Kay Martin & Dennis Keating
Heather & Patrick Mullen
Donalene & Don Poduska
Stacy Stuhldreher
Lissa Waite
Sharlene Warner
Ellen Worthington

2009 Bee Supporters 
Ken Barcus
Janet Clymer
Ben DeRubertis
Mark & Leslie Dumm
Joy Henderson
Laurie Logan
Liz & Andy Mull
Stew Pharis
Tom Sperl & Cindy Watson
Jeri Waltrip

2009 Corporate Sponsors
Calligraphy Studio 
Catch the Spirit Choir 
Dave’s Supermarket
Heights Dental Group
Lawn Lad
Lee-Silsby Compounding Pharmacy
Lopez Restaurant 
Lusty Wrench
Reilly Painting
Seitz-Agin Hardware
Stone Oven Bakery
Studio Techne
Verne & Ellsworth Hann, Inc.
Whole Foods
Zagaras Marketplace

2009 Raffle Donors
Todd Anderson
Beth Brandt-Sersig
Big Fun
Cleveland Cinemas
Dewey’s Pizza
ESPN 
Lita Gonzalez
On The Rise Bakery
Quintana’s Barber Shop
Target
Laura Marks
Motorcars Toyota 
John and Barbara Schubert
Restless Coffee 
Revive
Simply Charming
Wood Trader 
Zoss – The Swiss Baker

2009 Team Sponsors
Barratrous Orthographers (SS&D) 
Geoff Barnes
 
Benesch Barristers 
Paul Malie
Mark Phillips
Clare Taft
 
Cleveland Heights Teachers Union 
Monica Long Carter
Patrick Fisher
Jackie Kerzner
David Peake
 
Gearity/Wiley  
Gearity PTA 
Estee Gulden
Sharlene Warner
Laura Weber-Smith
Karly Whitaker
Wiley PTA 
 
Know Knothings-Heights High PCC 
Elizabeth Colquitt
Melinda Colquitt
Anne Kugler
Fran Lissemore
Jean Wright
Jim Wright
Martha Wright
 
Language Lovers 
AARP Chapter 5018
Mary Jo Atkinson
Donald Banas
Geoff & Marryann Barnes
Patricia Bennett
Millie Burke
Bonnie Caplan
Althea Cheatham
Nancy Coleman
Barbara Colombi
Claudia Cull
Peter & Rachel DeGolia
Nancy Dietrich
Patricia Esslinger
Phyllis Evans
Sally Fahrenholz
Maurice Feren
Elizabeth Ferguson
Carol  Gibson
Dale Greenbaum
Lois & Andrew Gross
Dorothy Haffey
Bruce & Eric Heylman
Susan & Paul Heylman
Amy Jenkins
Susie Kaeser & Jerry Blake
Mary Alice Johnston
Ed Kelley
Ann Kramer
Bonnie  Lake
Carolyn Ladd
McGregor Home 
Cynthia Monroe
Charles & Lena Monroe
Kenneth Montlack
Marian Morton
Sue Neff
Suzanne Nigro
Diane & Jim Pexa
Donalene Poduska
Alan Rapoport
Jan & Bill Resseger
Russell & Mary Sarrine
Jeff & Anne Smith
Linda Tobin
Mark Tumeo
Jack & Blanche Valancy
Judity and Howard Van Kleef
Dennis Wilcox
Diana Woodbridge
 
Notre Dame College 
Leslie Masterpaul
Philomena Meluch
Sr. Eileen Quinlan SND
Christian Taske
Tony Zupancic
 
Perennially Spelling 
Nancy Dietrich
Barbara Hodgkiss
Vince Reddy
 
Phairphax PTA 
Betsy Bell
Margot Damaser
George Gee
Denise Jackson
 
St. Paul’s Episcospellians 
EB Donley
Pat Cangelosi-Williams
Alana Williams
 
Forest Hill Presbyterian Church 
 
Rox Rocks 
Iulian Bulucea
Roxboro Middle School PTA 
Roxboro Elementary School PTA 
Steve Reinhardt
Denise Rynes
 
Thomson Hine LLP 
Tom Aldrich
Andrew Cox
Andrew Fabens
Laura Hauser
Kevin Murphy
Karen Rubin-Kugelman & Harvey Kugelman
Linda Striefsky
Catharine Zurbrugg
Thomas Zych
 
U Bee Spellin (Ulmer & Berne) 
Ruthie Johnson
Shannan Katz
Michael Ungar
Barbara Wherley
 
Upper Case 
Corado Ahmed
Mary Barkley
David Biegel
Susan Carver
Pat Crago
Greta DeMeyer
Donald Feke
Lynn Ford
Jeff Janata
Kathryn Karipides
Shelley Kazan-Wilcox
Nancy Klein
Suchitra Nelson
Jeffrey Pollock & Martha Brandt Pollock
Quentin Quereau
Gerald Saidel
Amanda Shaffer
Lynn Singer
Brian Smith
Gordon Wean
  
Canterbury 
Canterbury PTA 
Joe Lipowski
Bob Quartell
Beth Wise
 
Boulevard PTA 
Lisa Loveland
Lotte Resek
David Tabor
 
New Community 
Deanna Lamb
Chris Moore
Sakenah Waters
 
Coventry Outlaws 
Suzanne DeGaetano
Cynthia Larsen
Peggy Latkovich
Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry
Joe Mendes
Joyce Roper & Chris Ball
Tommy’s Restaurant
 
Smrt Team
Jenny Collyer
Rachael Collyer
Kathy Frederick
Chris Hoffman
Lewis Pollis
Studio Techne 
 
Oxford/Noble 
Marie Augustin-Glave
Desiree Maxwell
Noble PTA 
Kathy Soltis
Stacy Stuhldreher
 
Library Spellers 
Cedar Lee SID 
Shamekia Chandler
Amy Harmon
Heights Library 
Aurora Martinez
 
CH-UH Board of Education 
Mike Cicero
Eric Coble
Nancy Peppler
Ron Register
Kal Zucker
 
John Carroll University 
Cathy Anson
Jim Krukones
Marcy Milota
 
Comeback Kids 
Ali Abramson
Kirk Dietrich
Krissy Dietrich Gallagher