Logan Harvey Presented Wakulla Bank Savings Bond for Patriot’s Pen Essay District Win

Wakulla Bank recently presented a $250 savings bond to Crawfordville resident Logan Harvey, 14, to recognize her district win during the Patriot’s Pen “Citizenship in America” spring 2007 essay competition at Riversprings Middle School.

Harvey is the daughter of Riley and Lorrie Harvey of Crawfordville.  She won the local- and district-level contests while an eighth-grader at Riversprings Middle School.  Harvey scored a perfect six on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in Writing in the eight grade, a distinction shared by only 3 percent of Florida eighth graders.  She also was named the 2006-07 RMS “Oracle” – the middle-school equivalent to the high school salutatorian – with a middle school cumulative GPA of 4.0.  She will attend Wakulla High School this fall.  (Picured above:  Wakulla Bank Vice President/Controller Susan Payne Turner presents a savings bond to Logan Harvey to recognize her district win last spring in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Patriot’s Pen essay contest.  Turner is joined by Veterans of Foreign Wars members James Taylor and Dallas Miller and Wakulla Bank Community Relations Officer Jerry Evans.)

{sidebar id=1}“Wakulla Bank salutes Miss Harvey on her impressive essay and superior academic accomplishments,” said Vice President/Controller Susan Payne Turner.  “She is an excellent role model for other students and for all aspiring writers in our community.”

Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsors the nationwide Patriot's Pen patriotic essay-writing contest for students in grades six through eight, and more than 120,000 students participated last year.  The 300- to 400-word essays allow students to express their views on democracy.  The top 43 national winners receive at least $1,000 savings bonds; the first-place award is a $10,000 savings bond and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C.  The contest is endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

For more information about the competition:  http://www.vfw.org/resources/pdf/patriotspen.pdf

This article originally published on July 30, 2007.

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