Dr. Jacques Bailly (born 1966) was the 1980 national champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and now serves as the official pronouncer of the Bee, a position he has held since 2003. Before that, he served twelve years as the associate pronouncer. The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly known as the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly referred to simply as the national spelling bee) is a highly competitive annual spelling bee run on a non-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company, held at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel...
He grew up in the Denver, Colorado area and earned his undergraduate degree in classics in 1988 from Brown University and Ph.D. in ancient philosophy from Cornell University. Dr. Bailly is currently an associate professor of Classics at the University of Vermont. Nickname: The Mile-High City Location of Denver in Colorado, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area - City 401. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, or simply The University of Vermont, is a public university located in Burlington, Vermont. ...
He plays himself in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee which tells the story of a girl who competes in the national spelling Bee. Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 film written and directed by Doug Atchison. ...
External links
The Final Word The Burlington Free Press, May 7, 2006
The Believer - Interview with Jacques Bailly June/July 2006
The Gallery JacquesBailly was inaugurated in 1973 with an
JacquesBailly has also exhibited the works of modern and contemporary painters such as Raoul Dufy, André Masson, Jacques Villon, Marc Devade, and J.P.Pincemin...
Bailly's stated aim is to help intermediate/advanced readers of Greek engage the dialogues in the original, and so there is no English translation of the dialogues.
Bailly is to be commended for his sensitivity to philosophical, historical, and philological contextualization, and their importance for understanding the dialogues in the original.
Bailly points out at the beginning that he is a "developmentalist" with regard to Plato's dialogues and distinguishes between "unitarianism" and "developmentalism", referring the reader to significant literature on these issues.
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