LITERARY STATE MEET

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VARMA WINS

LITERARY MEET GOLD

In April, Upper School students participated in the Georgia High School Association State Literary Championship and came away with impressive results. The competition challenges participants’ written, public speaking and musical skills in categories such as Oral Interpretation, Rhetorical Essay, Solo, Trio and Quartet. OLIVIA ULLMANN ’21 placed fourth in the Argumentative Essay category; HANNAH WHITE ’24 placed fourth as well for her Personal Essay. RYAN VARMA ’22, competing U L L M A N N in the Extemporaneous Speaking category, took home the state title.

W H I T E

ELI MAUTNER ’21 is a longtime volunteer at the Zaban Paradies Center (ZPC), an organization that empowers couples experiencing homelessness or financial

vulnerability to transition to lasting economic stability. “I was first introFALL 2020: Members of the Zaban Paradies Center community engagement club prepare donations.

duced to ZPC in sixth grade when I helped my mom run a game night there,” Mautner recalls. “The residents were skeptical at first, not even wanting to participate. However, just a few minutes in, the energy started to pick up, and the residents, my friends and I were all having fun. Since then, I have loved bringing energy and fun to Zaban and supporting the residents in any way I can.” Mautner’s involvement with the program over the past seven years has included serving and eating meals with ZPC residents, making welcome baskets, organizing karaoke nights, collecting supplies and fundraising. He’s encouraged other Pace students to become involved as well and has coordinated volunteer events. In recognition of Mautner’s outstanding service to ZPC, the Midtown Atlanta Rotary Club honored him with one of two 2021 Barbara Rose Youth Volunteer of the Year Awards.