D.C. STUDENTS TO BE HONORED AT CONFERENCE ON ORAL HEALTH
$3000 in Prize Money to Be Awarded by Colgate-Palmolive
Contact:
Marla Fogelman
The KEVRIC Company, Inc.
301-588-6000
Nine students from the D.C. schools will be honored at a reception and awards ceremony in conjunction with the U.S. Surgeon General's Conference on Children and Oral Health on Monday, June 12, 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The students are winners of the Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body poster contest, which is sponsored by the Planning Committee for the U.S. Surgeon General's Conference on Children and Oral Health. The students and their art teachers will receive monetary awards, courtesy of the Colgate-Palmolive Company, in recognition of their creativity and artistic expression of the theme "Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body." In addition to an exhibit of the prize-winning posters, the design of the grand-prize winner will be featured on the conference materials.
Contest sponsors include the National Dental Association, Robert T. Freeman Society, Hispanic Dental Association, D.C. Dental Society, United States-Mexico Border Health Association, and American Association of Public Health Dentistry.
The winners are as follows:
Grand-prize winner - James H. Thomas, Terrell Elementary School, Grade 5
Haysawn Stone, Davis
Elementary School, Grade 1
Dan Rush, Kingsbury Day School, Grade 2
Imani Walker, Nalle Elementary School, Grade 2
Jasmine Johnson, Turner Elementary School, Grade 4
Derek Robertson, Garfield Elementary School, Grade 5
Ebony Williams, Evans Middle School, Grade 7
Ricky Battle, Jefferson Junior High School, Grade 8
Dominic A. Dickerson, Jefferson Junior High School, Grade 8
The event will be held at 6:30 PM in the Ticonderoga Room of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which is located at 400 New Jersey Avenue, Northwest.
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