Xavier's Lower School Fourth Grade Student Wins Dolphin Baby Naming Contest
Dolphin Encounter's newest dolphin is named "Clifton".
Blue Lagoon Island, Bahamas (PRWEB) May 11, 2009 -- Eden Cox, a nine year-old, fourth grade student of Xavier's Lower School was announced the winner of the Dolphin Encounters Baby Naming Contest.
Selected from more than 1,000 entries by students throughout the Bahamas, Cox's, winning submission 'Clifton' is now the name of the youngest member of the dolphin family at Dolphin Encounters on Blue Lagoon Island.
In a presentation before the entire school, Robert Meister, Managing Director of Dolphin Encounters, revealed the winner and the name chosen for the dolphin. Amid much cheering and applause Eden Cox was presented a certificate, a plush dolphin and a large gift bag.
"It was not an easy task picking a name from so many creative entries," said Robert Meister, Managing Director of Dolphin Encounters. "We were looking for originality and for the reason the student submitted the name. Eden chose 'Clifton' in honor of Clifton heritage. Clifton Heritage National Park has the distinction of being the only national park in the Bahamas where the historical and cultural legacy of three distinct civilizations, that of the Lucayans, the Loyalists and the Africans meet. The Clifton site also happens to be near Flipper beach. This is where the Universal's Studios movie Flipper was filmed in part and three of our dolphins starred in that movie - so even our dolphins have a connection. We felt this was a wonderful name for our Bahamian dolphin."
"I feel so excited and happy that I won," said Eden, hugging her stuffed dolphin close. "We live right near Clifton and one day not long ago my Daddy took me to the park and we walked around. I learned about the history and I thought 'Clifton' would be a good name for a boy dolphin because of the heritage."
As part of her prize, Eden and her entire fourth grade class, along with her teacher Mrs. Amoranna Maycock, will visit Dolphin Encounters on Blue Lagoon Island to meet Clifton and his mother Princess for the first time. The students will also participate in a Sea Rangers educational program.
"Our entire class is very excited for Eden and to visit Clifton and his dolphin family in person," added Mrs. Maycock. "As part of our Social Studies class we just had Dr. Jacinta Higgs visit and speak about the Clifton heritage. Eden chose an excellent name."
"Xavier's Lower School is pleased and honored to have one of our students win the Dolphin Encounters Baby Naming Contest," said Mrs. Denise Louis, Principal of Xavier's Lower School. "The entire school participated in the contest. This was an excellent way to foster the children's writing skills. Teachers had their class think of ideas for names and then asked them to write and state the reason why they wanted to have the name chosen. Congratulations to Eden for her winning entry. This has been a tremendous year for our school, we recently won the Archdiocesan Spelling Bee, another student was a winner in a national poster competition and now Eden has won this contest. We are very proud of her and all of our students on a job well done."
"Congratulations to Eden on winning and a very big thank you to her and every student from around the Bahamas that sent us a name," added Mr. Meister. "So many wonderful names were sent from many islands and we learned how much the children of the Bahamas care about our dolphins. As a Bahamian company, with a dolphin family that is also 100% Bahamian we wanted the baby dolphin's name to reflect our culture. This is our 20th Anniversary year and we wanted the children of The Bahamas to have the honor of naming the youngest member of our dolphin family. Clifton has received a wonderful name."
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