Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-16
ESSAY WINNERS
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lington, n. j.; Abraham Lincoln
Alice J. Watson. Burlington High
school, Burlington, N. j.; Christopher
Columbus-Alma Kathrine Frederick
sen, Jefferson High school, Portland,
Oregon; George Washington-Victo
Middleton, High school, Grand Rapids,
Mich; Benjamin Franklin-John E.
Lake. Jr., Oskaloosa High school,
Oskaloosa,' Iowa; Woodrow Wilson,
Alfred Dennis Jacob, George school,
Bucks Co., Pa; Florence Nightingale
-Prudencia Maria Bryan, Aguadilla
High school, Aguadilla, Porto Rico;
Joan of Arc-Florence Mildred Con-
nell, Academy of the Holy Family,
Baltic, Conn; Socrates-Jacques Rey-
nolds, Ecole DIES Roches. Verneuil-
sur-Avre. Eure, France: Johann Gu
tenberg-Paul Edouard Pulh, Ecole
de la reu Hugo Senger. Plainpa-
lais, Geneve, Suisse: David Living
stone-Kathleen' Montgomery. Pre-
toria High school for Girls, Pretoria,
South Africa; George Stephenson
Garabed H. Assarlukian, American
School for Boys, Samokov. Bulgaria.
Each one of these students will re-
ceive 500, the amount of the prize
and in addition a gold medal in
recognition of his accomplishment.
The winning essays with portraits of
the heroes are being published in a
Portrait Calendar of Twelve World
Heroes which will soon be ready for
distribution by those in charge of the
competition.
The result of the vote of the con-
testants for choice of the II world
heroes was announced last June by
DIR. Thomas.
Essays came from nearly all coun-
tries of Europe-England, France,
Germany. Austria, Latvia, Estonia,
Spain, Italy. Rumania, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and
of the United States, from Canada,
gin Islands, Hawaii, the Philippines,
Turkey, India, Persia, Morocco and
even from far-off Tasmania
Doctor Thomas committee has now
finished its arduous work of reading
and judging the thousands of essays
written by the students in support of
their votes. Although the members
of the committee of award had no clue
to the origin and authorship of the
essays, it is gratifying to discover"
said Doctor Thomas, yesterday, that
five of the IL prizes are going to stu
dents in foreign countries, and that five
of the IL essays were written by girls.
1t is an interesting and really remark
able coincidence that the prize for the
| best essay on David Livingstone goes
| to a student in the High school for
Girls in Pretoria, South Africa. A
girl in the Roman Catholic parochial
academy Of the Holy Family in Con-
necticut wins the prize for her essay
! on Joan of Arc. The High school in
| Burlington, n. j., has the extraordi-
nary distinction of winning two of
| the II prizes. A boy in that school
| receives the prize for his essay on
| Pasteur, and a girl receives the prize
| for her essay on Lincoln"
The Committee of Award was COM
posed of the following: DR.. Augustus
| o. Thomas, chairman; Richard Bar
! tholdt, former member of the U. S,
| Congress and President of the Inter-
parliamentary Union for Promotion
| of International Arbitration; James
| William Crabtree, NJ. A, secretary of
the National Education Association;
! Albert F. Coyle, editor of the Broth
! erhood of Locomotive Engineers
| journal; Glenn Frank, LID, Presi-
| dent Of the University of Wisconsin;
| David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LID,
| Chancellor Emeritus of Leland STAN
| ford, Jr., University; Francis John
| Mcconnell, DID, LID. Bishop of the
| Methodist Episcopal church; Parker
| Thomas Moon, Ph.D., Professor of
| Political Science in Columbia Univer-
sity; John Augustine Ryan, DID, Pro-
fessor of Moral Theology and Indus