It's Your Word Against Mine
Two News & Record teams competed in the Reading Connections Scrabble Challenge fundraiser last night at the Carolina Theatre. Kenwyn Caranna, Romy McGinnis and Janet Summers made up one, and Dawn Kane, Karen Arnold and Marie Pace were the other. The Caranna, McGinnis and Summers team won!
Here's Summers' report: Competitors and onlookers ate dinner together first in the lobby of the theatre. Then we were assigned to Scrabble tables. Kenwyn, Romy and I faced three bankers from BB&T in two games. By the end of our second game, the men begged us to report them as Wachovia bankers so that no one would know their identities. We beat them by 100 points in the first game and 190 points in the second.
Dawn, Karen and Marie faced a tough team of three women from Syngenta, who turned out to be the second-place winners. The scores of their games, unlike ours, were very close. The event also included a silent auction, a raffle and several door prizes. Both N&R teams celebrated at Natty Greene's afterward. We felt that postponing consumption of alcohol until after the games was a significant advantage we had over the BB&T bankers, who began drinking before the second game.
Bankers outdrinking newspaper journalists? What's the world coming to?
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Rest assured that the next generation of journalists, in the midst of the frightening and terribly exciting challenges it faces in trying to move the profession forward, also understands its true obligation to society: to drink bankers into the ground.
Posted on April 9, 2006 4:35 AM
Janet, this is hilarious. I'm sure all those crosswords you do helped.
Posted on October 5, 2007 9:14 AM