The fourth annual UBC Library and United Way Spelling Bee drew a crowd of over 100 spellers and a total of 17 teams.
During a sudden-death overtime round, Jan Wallace, head of the David Lam Management Research Library stepped to the mic to represent the David Lam Library team “Show Me the Honey” against the UBC Ceremonies and Special Events “Lexicons” – and brought home the first victory for a UBC Library team.
The winners of the 4th annual Spelling Bee.
Trish Rosseel, Acting Head of the Humanities & Social Sciences Division at Koerner Library, lead the event as MC and challenged competitors with words such as graupel, appoggiatura and foofaraw.
The cross-campus team competition to raise awareness for the United Way was broadcast live on CiTR, UBC’s campus-based alternative programming radio.
The event was also featured in the November 13 edition of the Ubyssey in “Our Campus: UBC abuzz during 4th annual charity spelling bee.”