Easton Boy Competes In National Spelling Bee Championship

Easton has a representative in the Scripps National Spelling Bee

Eighth grader John M. Grifone, of St. Jane Frances de Chantal School in Wilson, is one of 10 competitors from Pennsylvania that have qualified for the nationwide contest.

Grifone, 14, has a biography on the Scripps site which describes an athlete, a music connoisseur and a budding writer with an itch to travel.

John is a great student — he makes straight A’s — and he participates in National Junior Honor Society. In his free time, he likes to play soccer and run cross country and track. An admirer of film music, he enjoys the entire Interstellar soundtrack and counts its composer, Hans Zimmer, as his favorite musical artist. John hopes to see the world one day as either a travel writer or a missionary, and he would like to start by visiting Rome, London and Paris.

Here is a full schedule of this week’s events:

Preliminaries: Wednesday, May 27, 8am – 4:45pm EDT. Streaming live on ESPN3.

Semifinals: Thursday, May 28, 10am – 1pm EDT. Live on ESPN2.

Championship Finals: Thursday, May 28, 8pm – 10pm EDT. Live on ESPN.

Photo credit: Mark Bowen/Scripps National Spelling Bee