Evening star., 1948-05-07
Science Fair and Calendar Art
Contest Winners Announced

Awards were made last night in
the Commerce Department audito-
rum to winners in the second an
nual Science Fair and the Student
Art Calendar contest, both sponsored
by The Star.
To the six flrst-prize winners in
the art contest went S100 savings
bonds. Seven grand prize winners
In the Science Fair received table
model radios. Awards for both con-
tests were made by Howard P.
Bailey, assistant to the managing
editor of The Star.
Winners in the art contest, all
Is to II years old, were Louis john
son of Armstrong High School,
Dorothy Drain of Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School, Norma Jean
Walter of Montgomery Blair High
School, Bethesda: Stanley Rynex of
Washington-Lee High School, Ar
lington; Thomas Hyde of George
Washington High School, Alexan-
dria, and Steve Karpman of Wood
row Wilson High School, These
students art teachers accompanied
them.
Pictures on Exhibition.
The pictures were on exhibition
in the alcove outside the auditorium
Mr.. Bailey said that, although there
were fewer entries than last year
the quality is far superior.
Miss Draim's painting was the
only unanimous choice of the Judges.
The 17-year-old girl was given a
corsage of roses by Mr., Bailey and
a mixed corsage-plus a kiss-from
her father, Capt. N. A. Drain, U. S
~, 1881 Locust Hill road, Chevy
Chase. Md.
Alter the pictures went on exhibi-
ton, however, the public was given
chance to vote. The painting by
young karpman. IS, got the noe
from the public as the best picture
Grand Prize Winners.
Grand prize winners in the
Science Fair senior division were
Walter Gilbert of Sidwell Friends
School, James P. Conkle of West.
ern High School, Marion Pratt o1
Armstrong High School, and team
Guyon Mersereau and Marshall
Peters Of Hyattsville High School
These contestants, too, were between
Is and II years old.
Junior division winners were Jack
Shappirrio, Is, of Macfarland Jun
icr High School; Paul Balm, IA, o1
Powell Junior High School, and Pete
Pavlos, IL, of Stuart Junior High
School.
Before the awards were presented
Dr.. Cledo Brunetti, chief of the Blu.
reau Of Standards electronics sec.
tion, told the audience how to make
a radio simply with paint, two tubes
and a loudspeaker.
Demonstrates Transmitter.
He demonstrated a transmitter
the size of wrist watch and sew
eral radios almost as small. All were
made by means of printed cir
cults" a process of brushing a me-
tallic paint onto a fiat piece OF
china or glass instead of using
metal wires.
Besides the grand prizes in the
science contest, many other awards
were made in the senior and junior
divisions. First and second grants in
each division were subscriptions to
science magazines and the third
grant was large map of the world
The names of the winners of these
grants follow:
SENIOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE.
First grant-Agnes Preston. Dunbar
Bruce Colvin, Coolidge, and Harold "
Grigsby. Dunbar
Second science srant-Walter Gilbert
Sidwell Friends Frasier Hemphill. Dun
bar, Russell a. Dixon, Dunbar, and Ronald
Stuart Deitch. Central
Third -grant-Joel Selbin. Roosevelt;
Donald J. Byers Wilson: Carol Blum
Central; Norma Plavnick Central; Nor
man Jones, Armstrong; Ken Moore, Will
son, and Harold Lucas, Armstrong
SENIOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE.
First science srant-Ann Anderson
punkum, coolidse; Guyon kersereau. Hy'