Fayette County students have

distinguished themselves again, this time on camera.

Five boys and girls from local

elementary and middle schools have been selected to tape public service

announcements for TBS Superstation's "Great American Moments 2001."

More than 750 entries from

114 different metro Atlanta schools were reviewed by TBS staff, with Fayette

students winning five of the 28 on-air slots.

The winners include Kelsey

Langworthy and Joseph Morris, Huddleston Elementary; Anderson English,

Braelinn Elementary; Sherlana Moody, Fayette Middle; and Amy Gress, Rising

Starr Middle.

TBS's "Great American

Moments" tell the story of achievements made by the country's men

and women throughout history in 30-second sound bites. The "moments"

will be aired starting in February 2001.

Fayette's winners joined their

fellow broadcasters Monday at TBS for an orientation meeting where they

received their scripts, discussed shoot dates and times, were briefed

on wardrobe and makeup and toured the set.

Huddleston's media specialist,

Barbara Harris, previewed about 40 audition tapes from her broadcast class

students before selecting the cream of the crop for submission to TBS.

She was thrilled to learn last

week that two Huddleston students were chosen for the TBS announcements.

"They are excellent broadcasters,"

Harris said, referring to Langworthy and Morris. Both are 10 years old

and fifth graders in Cathy Beach's class.

When Harris notified the students,

she said their first reaction was disbelief. "No way," they

echoed. But they soon were infected by their teacher's excitement and

reportedly "went ballistic."

"I didn't think I did

that well on the tape," said Langworthy in astonishment. But according

to Harris she and Morris did extremely well with their enunciation and

facial expressions.

Morris said he spoke "louder

than usual" when he was in his broadcast mode, but changed little

else in the way he normally spoke.

"All the students that

auditioned worked very hard on their presentations and appeared very natural,"

Harris said.

Neither student broadcaster

desires a career in communications at this time, with Langworthy preferring

to work toward becoming a professional soccer player and Morris still

undecided. Harris added that he is very artistic, however.