The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-05-27
Students
Win HOnOrs Tn
Essay Contest

In a statewide competition of high
school students for excellence in es-
says relevant to the Colonial period,
Joseph GIendonato, member of the
Junior class of the local institution
has been awarded the first prize Of
fered by the Connecticut Society of
colonial Danes of America.
361 Contestants
For the promotion of patriotic
and historical interest, and as an in
centive to literary endeavor among
elementary students, the society, each
year provides opportunity for gram.
mar and high school pupils through
out the state to contend for monetary
awards and certificates denoting hon
orab1e mention. In the recent con-
test, 361 essays were submitted by
grade children, while SO were entered
by the various high school classes.
Concordant with their custom of
two decades the Connecticut society
in January announced the appended
subjects: High schools. THE Declara-
mon of Independence and It's Sign
ers," Historical Buildings of Connec-
dcut, Noted Women of the Colo
MES and Their Influence; grammar
schools, General Putnam, Hero of
Wolf Den," 1.-The Settlement of James,
town" For rhetorical and intelec-
tual superiority of their dissertations,
prizes of SIS, SO and SIS, respec-
lively were named for high school
entrants, with three certificates of
distinction for competitors, whose eff
forts, though commendabIe. failed to
manifest the requisite degree of pro-
ficiency.
Trade School Winner
In many cases the contestants APP
proX1mated the same degree of ner-
it, and ranking them was a matter
requiring much consideration. An
innovation this year was the intro
duction of a separate list incorpor-
ating those whose papers did not en-
title them to prizes, but who were
rewarded with one dollar cash and
an attestine certificate. A successful
Bridgeport aspirant in this class was
J Joshua Lang, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Theodore Long, Of $50 West Liberty
street. Joshua is IL years old, an
eighth grade pupil in Prospect school.
He selected for his subject, General
Putnam, Hero of Wolf Den"
All awards will be made by per-
sonal presentation at the respective
schools of the winners. In this city,
liam K. Glover. both Fairfield resi-
dents, will, as local representatives
of the society, officiate in the recog-
milton of Messrs. Giandonato and
Lang.
A Bridgeport Boy
Joseph Giandonato, a. native of this
city, is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. An
thony Giandonato of 27 High street.
At 16 he is a high school junior en-
deavoring to completes the college
preparatory curriculum in three and
one-haIf years. At various times he
has been elected to class offices and
was formerly president of the school
debating team; from this association
he recently resigned to assume the
presidency of the High School Liter
airy society, of which he was an en-
thusiastic organizer.
The ensuing tabulatiOn OF pardc1-
pants achieving honors constitutes
the complete roster for the state.
High school: First prize, $15, JOS
eph a. Giandonato, Bridgeport; sec
ond prize, SO, equally divided be-
tween James c. Stanford of New Ha-
ven and w. Stanley Martin of Green
wich third prize, IS. Caroline Keeler.
Wallingford Certificates: Meyer
Merwin, New Haven; Grace Free
man, Meriden; Hugh McKenna, Merd-
den.
Grammar schools: $40, Mary Mon
tani North Canaan; SIS, Mabel Far
quhar Pomfret; IS, Brunbe Talbot,
Norwich; So, Sylvia Kaplpel, Hartford
One dollar rewards and certificates:
Olaf Hasselgren, Ansonia; George
Brown, Sufield, Mary Moore, Milford;
Rose Tschauder.
Twenty-seven towns were repre-
scented in the ensemble of potential
auth rs.
Comprising the committee adjudg-
ing the merits were: Mrs. Alfred
Terry, of Fairfield, chairman; Mrs.
William S. Ingram, Bristol; Mrs VIM.
Lyon Phelps, New Haven; Mrs. Ed
ward Rupert Sergent. New Haven;
Miss AdeIia S. Shelton, Derby; Mrs
w b williams, Hartford; Miss Emily
Arthur L. GiIIett, of Hartford.