The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-18
JUNEAU SENIOR IS WINNER pEp5I-C0LA
 SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE
Richard (. Wingerson Is One of i5 Top Ranking
 Students as FinaIisf


 Richard Cortis Wingerson, IS. a senior at Juneau High School, has been informed that he had been chosen from among 46,112 high ischool students to win a Pepsi- Cola College Entrance Award Richard was one of Is top-ranking students in Alaska who were finalists for the l21 Four-year College Scholarships being offered by the Pesi-Cola Schol- arship Board this year, and as a ,runner-up he will receive $50 when he enters college in the fall.
 The announcement that Richard had won an award in the $330,00 na- ton wide scholarship competition was seth to Henry A Harmon, Prin- jcipal of Juneau High, by John M Stalnaker director of the Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board Principal Har- ,mon said that Richard was one of l575 students in the United States to receive the College Entrance Award and that he participated in the competition with 35 other AL aska students from IT public, pri- jvate, and parochial schools.
 Juneaus winner is the son of MT and C. L. Wingerson. He is a rnem- Her of the tumbling, ski, and drama tic clubs, and he has held offices in the Science and Debate clubs. A lmember of Quill and Scroll, Dick is editor of the school paper and year lhook. He has taken an active interest in Scouting and is now Star Scout, as well as a junior assistant Scout Master. sHe is also member of the Juneau City Band.
 1 This is the third winner that Ju- |neau High has had in the Pepsi Cola scholarship competition. In !1946 John F. Prouty won a College Entrance Award; and in 1947 Dale M Rolf also won that award. Princi- pal Harmon said that Anita Brown was also entered in the competition ilIOlIl J ulledu IlllS veal
 The Four-Yea College Scholar ship awarded in Alaska this year was won by James Douglas Bingle, a senior at Fairbanks High School 7 The awards these contestants have won, which have a value of $330,000, are financed by the Pepsi-Cola Company upon the recommendation of its President, Walter s. Mack, Jr. Designed to discover young men and women of outstanding ability and train them for leadership within their own fields, the entire program is offered as a public service to the youth of America, Stalnaker said.
 In announcing the 1948 winners, Stalnaker said that total of 722 awards were granted to boys and, girls throughout the country this year. One hundred and twenty one were Four Year College Scholar-a ships, at least two of which were awarded in each of the 48 states and in the District of Columbia, and one each in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
 Seniors who won the Four Year College Scholarships will have their. full tuition and other required fees paid for four years at any accredit- ed college they wish to attend. In addition, they will receive a $25-a- month allowance for four school years and travelling expenses at the rate of three cents mile for one round trip between home and col- i lege each year.
 The 575 runners-up for the Four | Year College Scholarships were given College Entrance Awards. Ap- proximately ten of these were grant, 1 ed in every state and five in each of the territories. College Entrance Award winners will receive $50 to help defray initial college expenses if they register at an accredited ac- 1 ademic college for the 1948-49 term.
 Three College Entrance Awards were granted this year to high school students in Alaska, Stalnaker said. They were won by Jean Elizabeth Boucher of Ketchikan Public High School, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. J. Boucher in Ketchikan; Sara Kester Chapman of. Fairbanks High School, the daughter of Mrs Ella B. Chapman, 72l Fourth Street in f Fairbanks.
 In the three previous Pepsi-Cola scholarship competitions, three AL aska students won Pour-year College scholarships They were Andrea M. Harris of Petersburg High School, who is student at the University of California; Josephine M. Moberg of