Congratulations to the National History Day Club, sponsored by Dr. Christine Anderson, who performed well at the Virginia History Day district competition on Saturday, February 26, 2022.
The theme this year was Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences. Joanne Lin’s (’23-Chesterfield) paper, “Roe V. Wade: A Symbol of Proliferating American Crisis in Debate and Diplomacy,” placed first and Drew Rivas’s (’23-Chesterfield) paper “From the Mattachine to Stonewall: How Diplomacy Failed the American Gay Rights Movement” placed second in the Senior Paper category. Jordyn Krajewski (’23-Chesterfield) placed first in Senior Group Documentary with “933,” and Ally Lichtman (’25-Henrico) placed second in the Senior Individual Website category with “Alpha for the Beta: How Ida B. Wells and the Alpha Suffrage Club Bettered the Fight for Enfranchisement at the Intersection of Race and Gender.”
All four students will move forward to the state contest on Sunday, April 24.
