Sewanhaka Students Win Irish Cultural Contest

Seventeen talented students from the Sewanhaka District were honored by the Irish Cultural Society of the Garden City Area for winning this year’s Martin J. Kelly Writing Contest.
This was quite a challenging contest, which required students to write a rhetorical analysis of the Irish Proclamation asserted 100 years ago and read at the Easter Rising. Five of Michelle Papaccio’s students were winners.
Congratulations to Nicholas LaGrega, who was awarded first place and $200; Olufisayo Atanda Ogunleye, who placed second and won $150; and Natalia-Chloe Malik, for placing third. Madeline Denehy and Nilay Sebat were awarded honorable mentions, as were Kathleen Crimmins’s students John Giuffre and Christelle Julien. More than 500 submissions were received from 17 schools.