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Photo of the Day: Douglaston Students Among Winners in Poetry Contest
Two local students win for writing poems on what it means to be an outsider in Holocaust center's competition.
Two Douglaston students were among the winners of the Nassau County Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center's annual poetry competition.
The juried contest calls for seventh and eighth grade students to write poems on themes of social justice, tolerance and respect for diversity.
Two students - Lorenzo Manuali and James Fiechter - who attend Roslyn's Buckley Country Day School but live in Douglaston were among this year's winners.
This year's seventh grade theme for the contest was "What does it mean to be an outsider and how does one's experience on the periphery lead to new ways of thinking about the world?"
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The eighth grade theme was "How do we define justice and how can we collectively endeavor to create a just society?"
Three other Buckley students - Michelle Wisnewski, Madison Rielly and Theodora Christopher - also won prizes in the competition.
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The students' work will be displayed as part of a spring exhibition at the museum and their poems will be published in an anthology.
Photo courtesy of Buckley Country Day School.
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