Region 4 History Day Winners 2014
Junior Historical Papers:
1-- Olivia Gallmeyer; After Stonewall: One Riot's Impact on an Era; J.T. Henley Middle School
2-- Eliot Stevenson; The Second Amendment; Buford Middle School
Junior Individual Performance
1—Abby Davis; Eleanor Roosevelt: The Struggle for Human Rights; William Monroe Middle School
2—Tyler Phillips; Freedom of the Press in Sports; J.T. Henley Middle School
Junior Group Performance
1— Maggie Olshove, Rachel Knight, and Shalyn McFarling; Kindertransport: The Story of those who took
the responsibility to protect the rights of innocent children during the Holocaust; Augusta Co-op
2—Molly Early and Olivia Binggeli; Ten Days in a Human Rat Trap; William Monroe Middle School
Junior Individual Documentary
1-- Kylee Kennerly; Rights and Responsibilities o fAfrican Americans in the 1950s; Admiral Byrd Middle
School
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Junior Group Documentary
1—Eddie Pritchard and Evan Wagner; It’s still home to me: Eminent domain and Shenandoah National
Park; William Monroe Middle School
2—Henry Saunders and Campbell Brickhouse; Iran Hostage Crisis; Buford Middle School
Junior Individual Website
1—Luke Spitzley; Dresden Bombings: The Failure to Protect Civilians; Sutherland Middle School
2—Lauren Reynolds; The Witchcraft of Salem: How one little town became a landmark in American
History; William Monroe Middle School
Junior Group Website
1—Ryan Greenberg, Wilson Brown, Anna O’Shea; Civil Rights vs. Government Control: Kent State
Massacre of 1970; J.T. Henley Middle School
2—Anna Baker and Julia Sharff; March 25, 1911; William Monroe Middle School
Junior Individual Exhibits
1—Evelyn McKenney; The Stolen Generations: A Tragic History; Buford Middle School
2—Lena Keeswaker; On this Side; Buford Middle School
Junior Group Exhibits
1—Danielle Shittington, Kayla Baker, Abbey Ferguson, Leeann Quick; The Way we Worked; William
Monroe Middle School.
2—Isaac Chapman and Brian Jiminez; Stonewall Jackson in Our Backyard; Robert E. Aylor Middle School
Senior Historical Papers:
1-- Chris Hays, Genocide in Bosnia: International Responsibility, Charlottesville High School
2-- Vivian Lin, Death and Denial: The Bosnian Genocide, Western Albemarle High School
Senior Individual Performance
1—Sophie Eichelberger, The Most Freedom out of Limited Choices: Womens Roles Outside of the Home
in the 18th century, Western Albermarle High School
2—Veronica Gaspa, I, Helen Keller, Western Albermarle High School
Senior Group Performance
1—Tucker Olshove and Jacob Reed; Rights and Responsibilities to Military Working Dogs and their
Handlers: From Vietnam to the Present; Augusta Co-op
2—Clare Yordy and Alex Kingsley; Just for Kicks and Giggles: Commedia dell’arte as the Birth of Modern
Comedy; Western Albemarle High School
Senior Individual Documentary
1—Meagan Arnold; Rosie the Riveter; Sherando High School
2—Kristina Donnelly; Nazi Medical Experiments; Western Albemarle High School
Senior Group Documentary
1—Trevor Stutzman, Chethan Shivaram, and Jesse Galloway; Chernobyl: In the shadow of nuclear
disaster; Western Albemarle High school
2-- Elise Eckman, Jeremy Linaburg, and McKenna Ohlson; Rights of Hitler; Sherando High School
Senior Individual Website
1—Caroline Harvey; The Soil Conservation Service; Sherando High School
2—Mary Larson; Dominions of Democracy: The Development of Public Libraries in Britain; Western
Albemarle High School
Senior Group Website
1—Nayiri Krzysztofowicz, Olivia Cornish, and Lillian Xu; The Drey fus Affair: A Paradigmn of Ideological
Uncertainty; Western Albemarle High School
2—Jesse Dugan, Madi Pittman, and Olivia Spencer; Ludwig Guttmann and the Paralympic Movement;
Western Albemarle High School
Senior Individual Exhibits
1—R.J. McKenna; Blood and Oil: The rights of the Ijaw and the Responsibilities of the Nigerian Govt;
Sherando High school
2—Kate Snyder; Artistic Censorship in the Era of France; Western Albemarle High School
Senior Group Exhibits
1—Noelle Stith and Logan Foster; Elizabethan Poor Laws; Western Albemarle High School
2—Nick Benish, Courtney Erickson, and Breyanna Guadarrama; Japanese Internment; Western
Albemarle High School