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    Date: 4/10/02
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   56

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SOUTHEASTERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE FESTIVAL WINNERS (ST. TAMMANY)  
Students from St. Tammany Parish schools who took first place in the 20th annual Southeastern
Louisiana University Foreign Language Festival on April 9 were, from left, front, Alberto
Puentes, consul general of Mexico; Margaret Marshall, head of the Department of Foreign
Languages; Reagan Yates, Pearl River High School, Spanish Poetry III; Holly Morlas,
Mandeville High School, French Poetry IV;  Matt Averill, the St. Paul School, Spanish
Extemporaneous Speaking II,  Jason Piper, the St. Paul School, Spanish Prose I;  Michael
Sciortino, the St. Paul School, Spanish Poetry IV; Foreign Languages professor Luz Escobar,
festival organizer; Jean Xavier Broager of the French Consulate in New Orleans; back, Ducore
Alexis and Steve O'Neill of Prometour; Tyler Sturgeon, the St. Paul School, Spanish
Extemporaneous Speaking III; Marcelo Lopez, the St. Paul School, Spanish Poetry Native
Speaker; Xavier Gadarrama, the St. Paul School, Spanish Prose Native Speaker; Conrad Seevers,
the St. Paul School, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking Native Speaker; Sean Colwell, the St.
Paul School, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking IV.
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Press release available online at www.selu.edu/news/spring02.html