2012 Spelling Bee

Please join us at 7 pm on March 28, 2012, at the Cleveland Heights High School auditorium for the 21st annual Reaching Heights Adult Community Spelling Bee. 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 $262,000 to date - have supported educational excellence in the Heights schools.

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.

If you’re interested in putting a team together, call us at 216-932.5110 or email patrick@reachingheights.org

Instructions for Bee spellers are here.

Bee rules are here.

Roster of Spelling Bee Champions

2011 Reaching Heights Spelling Bee Champions Beth Woodside, Kathleen Collins, and Lisa Boyko

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1. O.O.P.S.A.L.A. (Orchestral Orthographers Publicly Support Annoyingly Lengthy Acronyms), Beth Woodside, Kathleen Collins, Lisa Boyko, representing The Cleveland Orchestra
2. (tie) Masked Morphemes (Jackie Kerzner, Kathy Soltis, and Ranelle Huber), representing PTAs from Noble, Oxford, and Monticello Middle schools;
Barratrous Orthographers (Becky Bynum, Bonnie Bealer, and John Lazzaretti) from the law firm of Squire Sanders.

2010 (tie)

1. O.O.P.S.A.L.A. (Orchestral Orthographers Publicly Support Annoyingly Lengthy Acronyms)
1. Barratrous Orthographers (Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey)

2009
1. Know Knothings (Heights High PCC)
2. Thompson Hine LLP

2008
1. Upper Case
2. SMRT Team

2007
1. O.O.P.S – Orchestra Orthographers
Prognosticate Success
2. Upper Case
3. St. Paul’s Episcospellians

2006
1. O.O.P.S – Orchestra Orthographers
Prognosticate Success
2. Canterbury Can-Do Spellers, CIVILITY,
St. Paul’s, Coventry Word Outlaws (tie)

2005
1. Can-Do Spellers, Thompson Hine (tie)
3. City-School Connection, RoxFairRox (tie)

2004
1. Noble PTA
2. Spellers of Note of CIM,
Oblique Asymptotes of JCU (tie)

2003
1. City-School Connection
2. Thompson Hine
3. Plymouth Rocks

2002
1. Noble PTA
2. Heights PTSA Spellbound
3. Programmars

2001
1. City-School Connection
2. RoxFairRox
3. Forest Hill Church

2000
1. Programmars
2. Mayfield JCC Spell-Chiks
3. Boulevard PTA

1999
1. Oblique Asymptotes of JCU
2. CH Teachers Union
3. Three Women and a Dictionary

1998
1. CH Teachers Union
2. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
3. Boulevard PTA

1997
1. CH Teachers Union
2. CH-UH Library
3. Thompson, Hine & Flory
Forest Hill Church (tie)

1996
1. CH-UH Library
2. RoxSpellers
3. CH Teachers Union

1995
1. Roxboro Middle PTA
2. CH Office on Aging
3. Forest Hill Church

1994
1. Meridia Huron
2. Heights Area Project
3. Heights Soccer Parents

1993
1. Forest Hill Church
2. Boulevard PTA
3. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

1992
1. Literary Heights
2. Boulevard PTA
Forest Hill Church (tie)