Evening star., 1925-01-21
GIRL GIVEN ESSAY
CONTEST PRIZES
Erma Louise Ford of Eastern
High Wins Event in
Schools.

lHC SIdHu prize III ln6 llEHllHe
educational essay contest conducted
IN the public private and parochia
schools of the District-an automo
bile-was awarded to Erma Louis
Ford. an 1S-year-old student a
Eastern High School, at exercise:
yesterday afternoon in the auditor
fum of the Potomac Electric Power
Co. Miss Ford also given a high
priced neutrodine radio receiving SCI
Tor submitting the best essay In heI
class.
The ~ successful contestants
their parents and teachers attende ed
the exercises which marked the con-
cluSlon OF the contest, q part OF ar
International competition conducted
throughout the United States and
Canada, which had it's inception as d
result of a report Of the Eyesight
ConServa ton Council, which showed 8
large percentage Of defective vision
among persons engaged In gainful
occupations.
The board of examiners and the
final judges, Of which II. A Brook:
was chairman, carefully examined
about 500 essays and lighting primers
in which illustrations of lighting fix
lures were pasted by the contestants
to show how, in their opinion, homes
should be illuminated.
The contestants were divided into
three classes, the children from 10 to
g years being in class A, the chill
dTen from IS TO l6 years being in
class B and the children between 16
and 19 years being in class G.
The local judges did not know the
names of the contestants. The list
of prizes and prize winners follows:
Glass A-First prize. neutrodyne
set. Bernice Thomas; second prize,
radio, Harry Lee Watson, jr.; third
prize. bicycle. Cynthia Eldridge
fourth prize, kodak, Paerl Strickland:
fifth prize, loud speaker, Helen Eliz-
abeth Posey; sixth prize, cash $50,
Catherine PriChard: seventh prize,
cash $40. Helen Marie Werterbruch
eighth prize, cash $40, Elizabeth V.
Cameron; ninth prize. cash $40. Char
1otte Enid Hobbs; tenth prize, cash IS,
Catherine Avery; eleventh prize, csah
50, Raymond w Lewis; twelfth prize.
cash IS, Frances Louise Pryor; thir-
teenth prize, cash s5, Cynthia Ger
stin: fourteenth prize. cash So. Jane
Eleanor Cameron; fifteenth prize, cash
80. Jack Fladung Merkling; sixteenth
prize cash ,$5. Kennedy Campbell
watkins; seventeenth prize, cash S5,
Marjorie d. Rosentield; eighteenth
prize. cash So. Mary Margaret Will
liams; ninteenth prize. cash IS. Clara
Hetty Smith: twentieth prize. cash
So, Nanette Matilda Dembitz; twenty
1lrst prize, cash S5, Margaret H. Nc
reynolds; twenty-second prize, cash
IS, John NJ c. Belts; twenty-third
prize, cash So, Mary w. Thomas;
tWenty-fourth prize, cash s., John
Adams Hahn.
Class B-First prize. neutrodyne
set, Adelina Thetis Willis: second
prize, radio, Robert Frederick Brady;
third prize, watch. Marion Ruth Gay
lord; fourth prize, kodak, Kathryn
Lena Thomas: fifth prize. loud speak
er. Emily Campbell; sixth prize cash
$50, Ronald Frederick Brown; seventh
prize, cash SO. George Hathaway
Willis; eighth prize, cash $40, Evelyn
Marie Burns; ninth prize, cash So
Ralph Edward Dewhirst; tenth prize
cash 50, Vanertelle Ratterree;
eleventh prize, cash s5. Carl Julius
Ackerman: twelfth prize, cash 50,
Kathryn Hathaway; thirteenth prize.
cash 50, Marjorie Moon; fourteenth
prize, cash IS, Helen Mooney; fifteenth
prize, cash s.. Evan Wilson Compiler:
sixteenth prize, cash SIS. Shearer Will
lard; seventeenth prize cash So
Florence Minnie Painter: eighteenth
prize, cash IS. Anna Virginia Cooper;
nineteenth prize, cash IS, Hflda Marie
Jackson; twentieth prize, cash s5,
Nal lc rose DubOlSi tWenty-nrSt
prize, cash So, Helen Connor; twenty
second prize. cash IS, William Ber-
berick; twenty third prize, cash So
George w. Veith; twenty-fourth
prize, cash s., Darrell Clayton Grain.
Class C.-First prize, neutrodyne
set, Erma Louise Ford; second prize,
radiola, John William Mauchly; third
prize, watch, Howard Homer Dewhirst;
fourth prize, kodak. Helen Cecile Besse-
mer; fifth prize. loud speaker. Chris
tine Marian Moran; sixth prize, cash
$50, Charles Louis Willard, jr.; seventh
prize, cash $40, Frances Elinor Brady;
eighth prize, cash $40, Lawrence Z.
Gichner; ninth prize, cash $40, Albert
George Goergens; tenth prize, cash IS,
Geraldine Blois Carpenter; eleventh
prize, cash IS, Lucille Bayne Terry;
twelfth prize, cash IS, Annalee
Shaukle; thirteenth prize, cash IS,
Elizabeth Margaret Hewston; four
teenth prize, cash So, Jean Virginia
Young fifteenth prize, cash IS, Ralph
Charles Van Allen; sixteenth prize,
cash S., Henry Lincoln Peckham. jr;
seventeenth prize, cash IS, Robert
Harding Rose; eighteenth prize cash
SO, Margaret NJ. Walton; nineteenth
prize, cash IS, Kingsland Prender;
twentieth prize. cash s5, Mildred
Steadman; twenty-first prize, cash So,
Paul Fisher; twenty second prize,
cash IS, Louis Ginberg; twenty
third prize, cash S5, Rindeu Beaman
Stoll; twenty-fourth prize, cash s5,
Bella. Edelson.