The 2013 North East Texas Organization of Language Educators was recently held at TAMU-Commerce with North Lamar Independent School District directing this year’s event.
NET-OLÉ was established in the mid 1970’s by a group of dedicated foreign language teachers who wanted to provide their students with the opportunity to demonstrate their acquired language skills in a foreign language competition, and the Texas Foreign Language Symposium was born.
North Lamar High School students who competed in the event beginning front row left are Savannah Blake – 1st place in Spanish Intermediate Memorized Prose, 2nd place in Spanish Intermediate Sight-reading, Jacob King - Spanish Food: Entrees – Peach Avocado Salsa with Chicken, and Christian Sims - Spanish Beginner Sight-reading. In back are Mary Hardin – 7th place in Spanish Food: Desserts – Pineapple-Banana Crepas de Cajetas, Sydney Foy - Spanish Intermediate Spelling, Nic West - Spanish Beginner Spelling, William St. John-sponsor, and Ty Basden – 5th place in Spanish Food: Hors d’oeuvres – Azteca Soup. Other students attending the Languages Other Than English event served diligently as monitors, envoys, and assistants.
NET-OLÉ officers from North Lamar High School who organized the competition were President Mary Ann Franklin-Spanish, Vice-President Alison Hayter-French, and Secretary William St. John-Spanish.