Smyrna times., 1926-11-24
WORLDS GREATEST HEROES
Twelve Greatest Noted in Prize Win
ming Contest Among High Schools

thousands of high school boys and
girls of this and more than thirty
foreign countries who participated IN
the competition established over
year ago by Clement NJ. Biddle OF
New York. The result of their vote
was announced last June by DR.. Aug
ustus o. Thomas, Commissioner of
Education of the State of Maine,
President of the World Federation of
Education Associations, and Chair
man of the Committee of Award of
the essay contest. The list, arranged
according to the number of votes each
one received, was as follows: Louis
Pasteur, Abraham Lincoln, Christie
pher Columbus, George Washington,
Benjamin Franklin, Woodrow Wilson,
Florence Nightingale, Joan of Arc,
Socrates, Joann Gutenberg, David
Linginstone, and George Stephenson.
Essays came from narly all countries
of Europe England, France, Ger
many, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Spain
Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslo
vakia, Switzerland, and Greece-as
well as from every one of the United
States, from Canada, Mexico, Porto
Rico, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands,
Hawaii, the PHILIPPINES, Turkey, In
dia, Persia, Morocco, and even from
far-off Tasmania.
Doctor Thomas's 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 dis
cover" said Doctor Thomas, "that five
of the twelve prizes are going to stu
dents in foreign countries, and that
five of the twelve essays were written
by girls. It is an interesting and
really remarkable coincidence that the
prize for the best essay on David Liv-
ingstone 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 Connecticut, wins the
prize for her essay on Joan Of Arc.
The High School in Burlington, N. j.,
has the extraordinary distinction of
winning two of the twelve 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 winners of the prizes for
the best essay on each Of the charac-
ters chosen-as announced BY Doctor
Thomas today, are as follows: Louis
Pasteur- William Schuyler Petit,
Burlington High School, Burlington,
Nj; Abraham Lincoln-Alice J.Wat-
son, Burlington High School, Burling-
ton, N. j.; Christopher Columbus
Alma Kathrine Frederickson, Jeffer-
son High School, Portland, Oregon;
George Washington-Vict Middle
ton, High School, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Benjamin Franklin-John f. Lake, ,Jr.,
Oskaloosa High School, Oskaloosa,
| Iowa; Woodrow Wilson-Alfred Ben
mis- Jacob, George School, Bucks Co,
Pennsylvania; Florence Nightingale
Prudencia Maria Bryan, Aguadilla
High School, Aguadilla, Porto Rico;
Joan Of .Arc-Flornce Mildred Connell
Academy of the Holy Family, Baltic,
Connecticut; Socrates-Jacques Rey-
mold, Ecole des Roches, Verneuil-sur-
Avre, Eure, France; Johann Guten-
berg-Paul Edouard Pulh, Ecole de Ia
rue Hugo-de-Senger, Plainpalais, Ge-
neve, Suisse; David Livingstone
Kathleen Montgomery, Pretoria High
School for Girls, Pretoria, South At
rica; George Stephenson-Garabed H
Assarlukian, American School fol
Boys, Samokov, Bulgaria
Each one of these students will re-
ceive $10O, the amount Of the prize
and in addition a gold medal in reco-
nition of his accomplishment.
The Committee of Award was com
posed of the following: Augustus o
Thomas, LII. D., Commissioner of the
State of Main, and President of the
World Federation of Education Asso
Citations, Chairman; Richard Bart
holdt, formr member of the U. Soon
gress and President of the Interpar
liamentary Union for Promotion of In
ternational Arbitration; James Viii
liam Crabtree, NJ. A., Secretary of tht
National Education Association; AL
bert F. Coyle, Editor of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers Journ
al''; Glenn Frank, LII. D., President o
the University of Wisconsin; Davit
Starr Jordon, Phi. D., Ii. D., Chancel
lor Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr
University; Francis John Mcconnell
D. D., LII. D., Bishop of the Methods
Episcopal Church; Parker Thoma
Moon, Phi. D., Professor of Polftica
Science in Columbia University; Joh
Augustine Ryan, D. d., Professor o
Moral Theology and Industrial Ethic
in the Catholic University of Ameri
: ca; Mrs. William Tilton, Chairman o
the Legislative Committee of the Ma
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