Friday's Internet Edition, July 25, 2008. Meadowlark youth wins spelling title Meadowlark Middle student Henry Heidtmann won the Forsyth County Spelling Bee. By Julie Swanson - Contumelious is an adjective describing scornful or humiliating insults. Obsequies are funereal rites. Henry Heidtmann, a Meadowlark Middle School seventh-grader from Lewisville, correctly spelled these two words to win the championship trophy at the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Spelling Bee on February 9. “He hadn’t studied those particular words,” Henry’s father, a computer teacher at Summit School explained, “but, somehow, he came up with the right answer.” Unlike children in the popular films Spellbound and Bee Season, Henry hasn’t worked with a special coach or attempted to memorize the dictionary. He only began preparing recently by reviewing the 30-page Merriam-Webster Spell It! handbook distributed to individual school winners. Experience also helped. This is Henry’s second time participating in a large spelling bee. Two years ago, he represented Summit School in a similar Piedmont-area contest for private school students. “Henry is an avid reader,” Mr. Heidtmann said. “I think a love of books has contributed to his success more than anything else. He’s a big Harry Potter fan.” Henry advances to the Winston-Salem Journal Regional Spelling Bee to be held March 25 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. A victory there sends him... Subscribe to the Clemmons Courier, P.O. Box 765, Clemmons, NC 27012.

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