Dr. Bernadette Tiapo, SUNY Oneonta chief diversity officer (far left), and Laura Arias, SUNY Oneonta associate director of the Center for Racial Justice and Inclusive Excellence (far right), congratulate Julianna Everson, Zoey Mae Elizabeth Beal, and Emma Peck on their prize-winning essays. (Photo provided)
Essay Contest Winners Announced
ONEONTA—Students from Oneonta, Worcester and Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton central schools received first-place honors recently in the SUNY Oneonta Office of Equity and Inclusion’s Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest.
Zoey Mae Elizabeth Beal, a fifth-grader at Greater Plains Elementary, won the elementary school category. Worcester Central School eighth-grader Julianna Everson took the middle school award, and the first place high-school finisher was Emma Peck, a junior at Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton Central School.
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