Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
HyatfsyiIIe Student
Wins Star Contest for
Scholastic Writers

SSbtVt0SutS VItBSbS
A 16-year-old junior at North
western High School in Hyatts-
vile has been named the winner
of the annual Scholastic Writing
Award contest. sponsored by The
Star.
Edward A. Stepp. who lives at
1920 jackson avenue. Brentwood.
Md. Won the contest with a
short-short,, story entitled ITO
See Judy"
Tied for second place were
Leslie e. Lowe. Is, of Woodrow
Wilson High School. and Gran
din r. Conover. II, Of Washing
ton-Lee High School. Arlington.
Hundreds Of Washington area
school students in the 10th. 18th
and 18th grades competed in
the contest. And as in the past,
students from Montgomery-Blair
High School, in Silver Spring.
ran away with the majority Of
awards.
Many Prizes Awarded.
Prizes were given in the fol-
lowing categories: Short-short
story, dramatic script, short
story. essay, poetry. article. jun
ior short story, junior poetry.
junior essay and a special cate
CORY called the Taggart award
contest.
Winners texts in the various
classification have been sent to
New York where they have been
entered in a national contest.
Winners of the national contest
will be announced later.
Young Stepp won a new port
able typewriter for his story. He
wrote the story when he was 13
and rewrote it four times before
enterting it in the contest. He
entered two other short stories.
ITO See Judy" won in its class
and also was judged best in the
contest.
Likes to Eat.
Mr.. Stepp said he doesn't plan
to make writing a career because
there are too many hungry
writers around" He said he
plans to enter the University of
Maryland and take up engi-
neerlng.
Miss Lowe, who lives at 5000
Military road NV, comes some
what naturally by her writing
ability. Her parents operate the
Penn Federal News Bureau here,
a news service that concentrates
on political and entertainment
news.
Miss Lowe tied for second
place with an article titled Re
strictions on Communism in the
United States" The 2,200-word
article was her English term
paper at school, and, as Miss
Lowe put it, IF it was good
enough to get an A in school, I
thought it would have a chance
in the contest"
Plans on College.
Miss Lowe is the editor Of her
school paper and is on the staff
of the schools year book. She
hopes to enter Smith College
next fall and study journalism.
Mr.. ConoVer, runner-up with
Miss Lowe, won with one of four
poems he entered. He also sub
mitted short story.
Mr.. Conover lives at 1914
North Second street. Arlington.
He has been writing, mostly
poetry, for several years. Though
he has never had articles pub
lished. he still sends some of his
work to magazines. hoping some
day for an acceptance.
The following is complete list of
Scholastic Writing Award winners:
First prize In contest; Edward ns A.
Hyattsyile for his short story ITO See
judy; received portable typewriter
presented by The Star.
Second prize in contest: Tie between
Grandin r. Conover Of Washington-
Lee for poem and Lesley E. Lowe Of
Woodrow Wilson for article. They both
received a fountain pen and pencil set
presented by The Star.
Winners OF Gold Achievement keys
end certificates OF merit are as follows;
manuscripts:
Short Short Story.
Key. Edward A. Stepp. Northwestern;
Carl H. Smith, Anita Pauley and Edwin
jenkins, MONTGOMERY Blair.
Certificate: Janet Greenleaf. Mont
Eomery- Blair; Beth Newman. Washing
ton-Lce; Anna Hansen, Sasscer; Barbara
A Somes. Montgomery Blair; Richard
j Dlllar WaShington-Lee; Dorothy M.
Taylor Mary Lou Carol. Patricia A.
Vass Robert H. Koehl. Harriet Love,
Alfred v. Boerner, Montgomery-Blair;
Larry D. Stoves. Mckinley; Edward A.
Stepp, Northwestern.
Dramatic Script:
Abrahamsen, Judith H. Fine and Bonita
Beavin. Montgomery-Blair.
Certificate LYDIA Dabney Robert A.
Falck, Beverly A. Howell. Daniel Fallon
and Jean F. Callahan. MONTGOMERY
Blair
Short Story:
Key: Grandin Conover. Washington-
Lee; Jonathan Revere. Woodrow Wilson.
Certificate: Alison Rivers, Judith D.