I finished 4th grade and began 5th grade at Jefferson Elementary School. My teacher's name is Mrs. Kirk. My favorite part of school is math because we get gum for our timed tests. I enjoy my teacher and creating art projects.

This year, I won the City-Wide Spelling Bee through the Winston-Salem Parks & Recreation Department (at left). My school's Odyssey of the Mind team took 7th place in the state. My role was the narrator/police dog (roll over picture at left).

In the summer, I was on the swim team at Polo Park Recereation Center, specializing in the breast stroke. I also swam alot at our neighborhood pool, and played soccer and basketball, even though I don't really like sports.

My best friend is Katherine Kaplan. I go to her house as much as I can.

I finished 1st grade and began 2nd grade at Jefferson Elementary School this year. My teachers' names are Mrs. Wayne and Mrs. Stainback. My favorite thing to do at school is to go to "specials" (media, technology, PE, music, art, and enrichment).

This year for the first time I played baseball at Winston-Salem National Little League, for the coach pitch Cubs. It was fun. You can see in this picture how good a batter I am. I also play basketball at Polo Park Recreation Center.

At home, my favorite thing to do is to visit our neighbors across the street, the Curran's. Their names are Max, Joseph, and Nicholas. My best friend is Johnny Whittington, but I don't get to see him very much, because his house is in another neighborhood. I do see Johnny at basketball. We like to play ping-pong after basketball.

I finished 6th grade and began 7th grade at Hanes Middle School. My favorite subject in school is math. I am taking Algebra I. I also play trumpet in the 7th grade band. You can listen to our Winter Concert on-line. I am preparing to take the SAT in January as part of the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP). No, not the PSAT, the SAT!

This year, I played soccer on my middle school team. I continue to play baseball at WSNLL, for the major Mets and on the 12 year old all-star team. I also played some tennis tournaments. I won an NTRP tournament at Hanes Park in Winston and the backdraw of a USTA 12s tournament in Greensboro.

I continued to teach Sunday school to the third graders at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church and to do my best to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of Mark, Hannah, and Paul. As they get further along in school, this gets harder and harder. I can't count the number of parent-teacher conferences, performances, and meetings, not to mention baseball, basketball, and soccer games, as well as swim meets and tennis lessons that I attended this year. The highlights of my year were undoubtedly the visits with my Uncle Ben and Aunt Florence Polzer (at left), my cousin Mark Polzer and his family (roll over at left), and my best friend June and her kids Hope, Levi, and Natalie Peer.

I had four highlights to my year. First, being voted by students to receive the Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life at Wake Forest. Second, traveling to Ghana (at left) with a Wake Forest student working in a girls' shelter in Accra. Third, winning the NC state championship in tennis for 8.5 combo teams (roll over at left). (My team will play for the Southern Sectional title in January.) Fourth, serving as faculty escort for commencement speaker David Brooks and hooding him when he received his honorary doctorate at the ceremony.

Also, I submitted my application for tenure in October and was profiled in Wake Forest Magazine in December.

David

Megan

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Hannah