Evening star., 1950-03-02
BorboroHoNond, Wilson Senior,
Wins Star Writing Award
Nine-Line Poem
Judged Best Among
800 Manuscripts

STUDENTS from "a senior ant
Junior high schools in the Wash
tngton area submitted 600 manu-
scripts in the regional contes
which is conducted on a nationa
basis by scholastic magazines
Judges were from colleges ant
universities here.
Those judged the best in eaci
of the 81 categories were sub.
mitted to the George Washington
University English Department
for selection for the first place
award.
First in National Division.
Miss Holland won second prize
for poetry in the contest last veal
for a collection of poetry and first
prize in the national contest.
Miss Holland lives with hel
grandmother, Mrs. Lola Hall, al
1860 Bradley boulevard, Bethesda
Her mother. Mrs. Marion Holland
lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The high school senior said she
has been writing poetry ever since
she was in the first grade, wher
she was assigned to write a poem
about Pilgrims.
I've written thousands since
then," she said. "I'd like to write
poetry for living. It's the only
thing I can do. I'm not much gooc
at any other form OF writing"
Miss Holland said she got the
idea for her winning poem from
"a musician friend"
Il worked through supper ane
wrote 1t in three hours a couple
of days before the contest dead.
line" she said.
Joanne Gilbert Second.
Miss Holland was born in Wash.
ington and attended Bethesda.
Chevy Chase High School for two
years before she transferred tx
Wilson.
Second-place. winner in the
contest is jeanne Gilbert, 1905
Thirty-f1fth street NV, a 16-
year-old student at Sidwel]
Friends. She wrote a radio adap-
tation of Edgar Allen Poe's Gold
Bug"
Third place was awarded to
Nancy Peterson, 17-year-old
Montgomery Blair High School
student, for her historical article
on washington Slaves" Miss
Peterson lives at 102 Schuyler
road, Silver Spring.
Central High School led in ton
honors with Is Gold Key Awards,
four Of them for best of class. But
Montgomery Blair of Silver Spring
was far ahead on total awards,
receiving. IA Gold Keys, of which
three were for best of class, and
80 Certificates of Merit. Central
had IL Certificates of Merit.
Coolidge was third in Gold Key
Awards, winning IL. Three were
for best of class. Sidwell Friends
was In fourth place with 9 Gold
Keys, Of which three were for
best Of class.
Swanson Junior High School OF
Arlington was first in the Junior
division with Gold Keys, two Of
them for best of class. and 8 Ger
tif1cates.
The full list of awards follows.
The first names listed for Gold
Keys were rated best of class,
which qualified the manuscript for
final judging to pick the first and
second best manuscripts in the
contest here. All winners of Gold
Keys will be entered in the Ma
tional contest.
Feature Story.
GOLD KEYS: Drew G. Nc
Killips. Central: Sandra Levy
Western; Roger custer. Coolidge;
Jennifer Wellborn, Bethesda
Chevy Chase; Carolyn Palmer
Eastern.
CERTIFICATES: Nancy Glenn
ents, Eastern; Joel E. Smiloy
Woodrow Wilson; Betsy Smith
Western; Marion Coleman, West
ern.
Literary Article.
GOLD KEYS: Robert custer
Coolidge; Constance Leroy. Mont
gomery Blair; Joan M. Daley
Montgomery Blair.
CERTIFICATES: Jean Ed
wards, Montgomery Blair; Robert
E. Britt, jr., Sidwell Friends.
General Article.
GOLD KEYS: Anton Levand-
owsky, Roosevelt; Gary M. New.
man, Coolidge; Ronald S. Deitch
Central; Marion E. Sibley, Wood.
row Wilson; Roger custer, Cool.
idge.
CERTIFICATES: Miles Davis
Central; Harvey D. Kaplan, Cool.
idge; Harry Kirk, Montgomery
Blair: Mary A. Devlin. Anacostia
Autobiography.
GOLD KEYS: Helen Boldyreff
Eastern; Matina P. Kokonis
Roosevelt; Fay Neufeld, Central
CERTIFICATES: Brian Grow.
ley. Montgomery Blair: Rita Bot.
kin. Mckinley two).
Senior Essay!
GOLD KEYS: Joseph M. Pow
ers, jr., Central; jeanne Gilbert
Sidwell Friends (two).
CERTIFICATES: Anna j. Cos.
nell, Anacostia; Caradel Strinsky
Central; Paulette M. Salton, Cen
tral; Rita Botkin. Mckinley
Brian Crowley. Montgomer.
Blair; Judy Wubnig, Central
Jean Stevenson, Coolidge; Bur.
ton Boroff, Coolidge; Donald D,
Laski, Coolidge; Eleanor Elliott
George Washington (two); Davi.
cite Hill. Sidwell Friends; Tay.
loria Glen, Dunbar.
Short Story.
GOLD KEYS: Stephen Moore
Sidwell Friends; Robert Sperry
.