HJR 265 Summary

• Commends Thomas Alexander "T.A." Sluis, a fifth grader at Trinity Presbyterian School, on his success in the 2010 Montgomery County Spelling Bee.

• Sluis won his school spelling bee against 23 other students in grades five through eight, marking the first time a fifth grader won the school contest and advanced to the county level.

• He studied words from Latin, Greek, Spanish, German, Asian, Dutch, Arabic, and other origins for more than 30 hours before competitions and finished sixth among approximately 30 county participants.

• Sluis correctly spelled words including newfangled, androcentric, rouge, sayonara, and alliteration before being eliminated on the word salmonella.

• House adopted the resolution on February 11, 2010, and Senate adopted it on March 23, 2010.