Sertoma stages Freedom Banquet

By January Wetzel
First Posted: February 10, 2012 - 1:45 am
Last Updated: February 10, 2012 - 1:54 am

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Tribune photo by January Wetzel Winners in Jackson County Sertoma%u2019s 2012 Freedom Essay Contest were, first row from left, Desiree Renee Steward from Crothersville Junior-Senior High School; Courtney Barker from Immanuel Lutheran School,; third place, Madison Wilson from Seymour Christian Academy; and Prayon Phillips from Seymour Sixth Grade Center. Back from left: overall winner Mary Kate Pritchett from Brownstown Central Middle School; Shelby Stuckwisch of St. John%u2019s Lutheran School; Tori Snook from St. Ambrose Catholic School; second-place winner Alli Carney from Medora Junior-Senior High School; and Carter Tape from Lutheran Central School.

Tribune photo by January Wetzel Mary Kate Pritchett, a sixth-grader at Brownstown Central Middle School, reads her winning essay during Jackson County Sertoma Club%u2019s annual Freedom Banquet on Wednesday night at First United Methodist Church in Seymour.

When writing her essay on the definition of freedom, Brownstown Central Middle School sixth-grader Mary Kate Pritchett wasn’t trying to win a prize.

She was surprised to find her essay was chosen as the best in the Jackson County Sertoma Club’s annual Freedom Essay Contest, winning her money and a U.S. flag that once flew over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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