Continuing Education participated in a Spelling Bee sponsored by the San Diego Council on Literacy. The CE team included Cat Prindle, Neill Kovrig, and Jamila DeCarli. The team made it to the fifth round and conquered words like soliloquy, plateau, and allegro. Speller Neill Kovrig created this ‘Ode to the Bee to describe the night:

A SOLILOQUY adapted from Shakespeare: To Bee, or not to Bee, that is the Question: Whether ‘tis Nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a Cacophony of voices, Or to take Arms against a sea of Letters, And by arranging them, inexactly: to die, to spell No more; and by a spelling, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand-letter Words That populate the Moderator’s List? ‘Tis a Theurgy of Words, some long, some short: To Spell, Perchance to Dream ...