Graves Helps Get Speller Back in Bee

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PLATTE COUNTY, MO. – A northwest Missouri speller has been allowed back in the National Spelling Bee after a clerical error originally kept her out. Morgan Brown of Dearborn will get to compete after all.

Morgan and her parents said even for most of the day, it wasn’t looking good for Morgan, who won a regional competition earlier this month to qualify for the Scripps National Bee. The bee said a problem with Morgan’s paperwork would keep her out, but then just a few hours ago, the Browns got a very exciting phone call.

“I wrote I’m going to Washington D.C. in sidewalk chalk in huge capital letters,” Morgan said.

“I just got a call from Paige Kimble, the director of the National Spelling Bee,” Susan Brown said. “I was pulling in the garage, she called and said Morgan’s been reinstated. It was a pretty short call. I got off the phone, Morgan was coming out the door, and I said, ‘Morgan, you’re going to Washington, D.C!’ And she just started screaming, we both just started screaming.”