AGazine December 2009
The Online Magazine of the Academic Games Leagues of America

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News and Notes

  • The following letter of invitation to the 2010 AGLOA National Tournament has been sent to heads of leagues and districts.

Interested Academic Gamers:

Academic Games Leagues of America, Inc., is proud to announce the 2010 Academic Games National Tournament, April 23 - 26, 2010, in Cincinnati, Ohio, situated beautifully along the Ohio River. Players, coaches, and accompanying parents will be housed in the Millennium Hotel, where all of the game and meeting activities will take place. All guests are strongly encouraged to stay at the Millennium Hotel.

Competition will take place in four Divisions – Senior (11-12), Junior (9-10), Middle (7-8), and Elementary (4-6). The following Academic Games will be played:

EQUATIONS (Adventurous Now-or-Never)
ON-SETS (Adventurous Now-or-Never)
LINGUISHTIK
PROPAGANDA (Sections A-B-D-F)
PRESIDENTS (Elementary & Middle 1 - 24 only)
WORLD EVENTS (Current Events & World War II Theme)

Schools and leagues may enter individuals and/or five-person teams in as many of the Tournaments as they wish. To be eligible for the Sweepstakes championship in a Division, a five-person team must play together for at least four games. Further details will be mailed to you in the Registration Packet after your preliminary registration.

It is imperative that you follow the registration deadlines closely to insure your group’s accommodations for the 2010 Tournament. Please begin the process by completing and returning the enclosed Preliminary Registration Form by no later than January 8, 2010.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at (561) 624-1884. We look forward with excitement to seeing you all in Cincinnati. It will be great fun and a superb challenge!

In education,
R. Lawrence Liss
Executive Director for the AGLOA Board

  • Congratulations to the following teams and individuals for winning the Equations championships in the Palm Beach County League.

    Elementary Adventurous Equations
    Bak Middle School of the Arts (Lisa Hanser, Coach)
    C.J. Fisher, Elise Howard, Jessica Taylor, Bak Middle School

    Elementary Basic Equations
    Equestrian Trails Elementary (Michell Regnerus, Coach)
    Jack Yan, Equestrian Trails Elementary

    Middle Adventurous Equations
    Congress Middle School (Kaylin Markman, Coach)
    Justin Cohen, Congress Middle School

    High School Adventurous Equations
    Suncoast High School (Sarah Zambito, Coach)
    Alex Anderson, West Boca Raton High School; Louis Brion, Suncoast High School

  • Kudos to the following team and individual winners in the On-Sets competition in the high school division of the New Orleans Academic Games League.

    Junior On-Sets
    Brother Martin High School (Brother Neal Golden and Craig Zeller, Coaches)
    Leslie LaCoste, Mount Carmel Academy

    Senior On-Sets
    Benjamin Franklin High School (Dwayne Fontenette, Coach)
    Uday Nandipati, Franklin High School

  • The Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV League in Pennsylvania recently held its LinguiSHTIK competition. Propaganda will take place January 8 (grades 7-12) and 13 (grades 5-6).

Leagues are asked to send in their calendars as well as results of their competitions (or links to this info) for inclusion in future News and Notes.

Where Are They Now?

Sadly, the H1N1 virus has claimed the life of at least one academic games alumna. Cathleen Calvert Wagner died November 18 in Columbiana OH at age 59.

  • Cathy was an outstanding academic games player at Springdale High School in Pittsburgh in the pioneering days of the late 60s/early 70s. Cathy's forte was Propaganda.
  • Her younger sister, Lynne, was also an outstanding player starting in Elementary Division for the legendary coach Lois Fink. Lynne Calvert Perkins lives in Suttons Bay MI.
  • Cathy Wagner earned a master's degree in education from Youngstown State University and spent her life teaching elementary school in Columbiana.
  • Cathy received the Award for Exemplary Mathematics Teaching from the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching for the state of Ohio.
  • She is survived by her husband of 32 years, Raymond A. Wagner Jr., and two sons, Benjamin and Andrew.
Cathleen Calvert Wagner

Got any news concerning AG players, alumni, and coaches? E-mail the editor.

Down Memory Lane

The following recollection comes from Larry Liss, AGLOA Executive Director, who was at the very first national academic games tournament.

Imagine playing Equations and LinguiSHTIK with no written rules!

  • At the first three National Tournaments (1966, 1967, and 1968), Equations was played just that way – no rules were written, except those that came in the game book. Finally, in the summer of 1968, Official Tournament Rules were written by a committee meeting in Turtle Creek PA for Equations, Propaganda, On-Sets, and Mr. President. Those rules made their debut in local leagues during 1968-69 and governed play at the 1969 National Tournament.
  • During the first year of LinguiSHTIK play, only the rules in the game book were available. After that year, written Official Tournament Rules became a must. Just look at the rules now and try to imagine!

 

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