Evening star., 1940-05-19
Building Naval Dorama Helps Boy Keep News
Just
Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP II. LOVE.
Junior star Editor.

S~AAoA oSeA &SAAsSAs
A story submitted to The Junior
Star last week was accompanied by
. note asking: 1T I fail to win
prize this time, may I try asain?"
And another contributor wanted to
know: "Is 1t all right to send in
more than one story ut a timer"
The answer is yes-to both
questions.
Whether you win q prize or not,
you are welcome to continue sub.
mitting contributions. And there is
no limit to the number that can be
offered at any one time. In fact,
the more you send in-and the
oftener-the better We like it.
For the second consecutive year,
the Horace Mann Journal has been
awarded gold media! for winning
first place rating among elementary
school newspapers printed by the
photo-offset process. The journal
was one Of eight papers earning such
rating in Nationwide contest con-
Quoted by the Columbia Scholastic
Press Association.
"The children Of Horace Mann
were very happy when the good news
reached them," says the latest issue
Of the Journal. They were glad
they had tried 50 hard and had sue
ceeded again in earning a high rating
for their paper. They were pleased
to receive message Of
congratulation from As
sistant Supt. Robert L. Haycock."
The Junior Star takes this op-
portunity to add its congratulations
to those extended by Mr.. Haycock.
The Journal is as fine an elementary
school paper as this editor has ever
seen, and Horace Mann pupils have
. right to feel proud Of its stafi.
Nicky Arundel is editor of the
Journal, and Prescott Pardoe,
Tommy English, Ann Penningroth,
Peter Peacock, Earl Gesler and Sally
Fly are assistant editors. The other
members of the stan are George
anna Meuth, Robert Lowe, Patty
Leadbetter, Elizabeth McCarty.
Elizabeth Parrish, Roldah Northu,
Barbara Sarazen. Nancy Matte, Fay
Rumple, Betty Jones, Olga Gazda,
Donna Mae Harkness. Gary Wilkin-
son, Nancy Conklin, Beverly Roam
sky, Donald Van Eenan, Shaler
Chevalier, Sandy Vandenbers,
Richard Hildreth, Craig Stone, Joan
Moore, Lydia Ballinger, Juanita
Hutchinson. Mary Byrd Gesler,
Stephen Booher, Mitzi Whitman,
Edwin Roe, Ann Ruffin Page, Dan
Seckinger. Robert Luce, James Far.
rar, Jack Russell Betty Sager, Caro-
line Miller. Ann Burnside, John
Appel, Billy Leachman and Alan
| Woolf.
Congratulations also are In order
for Elliott livery. cartoonist for
the Roosevelt High School Re-
porter. He entered IS drawings In
the arts division Of the 1910 scholas-
tic awards contest, and one Of them
earned him cash prize and an
art scholarship to Carnegie Techni-
cal Institute. In addition, eight Of
the drawings were placed in the
National High School Art Exhi-
bition in New York.
Every boy or girl who has an
opportunity to do so should 60 on
one Of the "art appreciation tours"
being conducted by the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art in cooperation with
the Board of Education. Groups
making the tours are shown through
the gallery by some one qualified
to explain the history and the
significance of the art works on dis
play. Thus far, total Of 6,335 boys
and girls have made the tours.
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Junior jottings:
Helen Millar, IS, Ironside, Md, re-
ports that students of Nanjemoy
High School. which she attends, are
taking more and more interest"
in the coming presidential campaign
. Ruby Mae Downs, IL, Sterling,
Va, is proud of the fact that her
brother, Clifton, 'is interested in
our country and has visited New
Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Indiana,
Florida, Kentucky and Maine" :.
William Goettline, is, Washington
and Lee High School, Arlington, Va,
hasn't missed Sunday school In five
years, he writes. His faithful at.
tendance is rewarded each year
by three-month vacation at Ocean
Grove, N. j. On q visit to
Houston. Tex, Mildred Elder. is,
Anacostia High School, obtained the
autograph of Mayor Oscar Hol-