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Ambassador Garza Hosts Essay Award Winners

Fourteen young history buffs received prizes at the Embassy April 25, 2007 when Ambassador Garza presented the winners of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) American History Essay Contest with their certificates. This year's competition focused on the Jamestown colony.

The annual DAR contest encourages Mexican students to research and write in English about a different period in American history. Almost 70 Mexican students from five bilingual schools participated in the contest. Above, Amb. Garza and Lisa Curn Uribe, Honorary Chapter Regent for the Mexico City John Edwards Chapter of the National Society of the DAR, and Beverley Blount, Honorary Regent for Mexico of the National Society of the DAR and Honorary Regent for the John Edwards Chapter, pose with the 14 winners.

The four national first-place winners read their essays to an appreciative audience of parents, teachers, DAR representatives and Embassy staff. Above, Amb. Garza, Lisa Curn Uribe and Beverley Blount with Juan Pablo Migoya, 7th. grade student at Colegio Sierra Nevada, 1st. place winner in his group.

A requirement of the essays was that they be written in the voice of a Jamestown resident. Amb. Garza, Lisa Curn Uribe and Beverley Blount with Michelle Avataneo, 6th. grade student at Colegio Sierra Nevada, one of two 2nd. place winner in her group.

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