Evening star., 1961-03-06

WaSnlngCon-Iee High ScnooI
students have won first and
second prize in The Stars 1861
Scholastic Magazines Writing
Awards contest. and have taken
top honors in four out of seven
senior high categories.
This is the second year Wash
ington-Lee students have taken
both first and second prize.
Mary w. Norris, IT, a senior,
won first prize with an exposi-
tory article on the meaning of
novelist Joseph Conrad'S Heart
Of Darkness"
Jay K. Wright. II, senior at
Washington-Lee. won second
prize with an informal essay,
How to Be a Neat Guy"
Mary and Jay also took top
honors for best entries in their
claSsifications.
Other Top Winners
Other best-entry winners
from Washington-Lee are Janet
L. Webster, poetry, and Sandra
K. Kincaid, for q formal essay
titled "Kierkegaard and the
Encounter With Nothingness."
Karen L. Steele of Montgom-
cry Blair Senior High School
won short story top honors:
Carolyn w. Cadman Of York
town Senior High School won
first place in the short-short
story category, and L. Keith
Cohen Of Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School won in the dra-
matte script category.
Junior High School division
winners were Harvey w.
Freishtat, Paul Junior High
School. essay; Barbara j.
Gehrke, Thomas jefferson
Junior High School, poetry,
and Susan Tammany, Kramer
Junior High School, short
story.
In National Competition
Prizes and awards will be
presented to the students by
the principals of their schools.
Entries Of all gold key win
ners, who took top honors in
their categories, have been
sent to New York for compe-
tition in the national awards.
National winners will be an
nounced early in May.
Fifteen hundred manuscripts
were submitted in the local
contest from Al area schools.
There were Al gold key win
ners and 100 certificate win
ners-a total Of 261.
Mary Norris will receive a
portable typewriter as first
prize winner. and Jay Wright
will be given a pen and pencil
set.
Public, private and parochial
students in greater Washington
took part in the contest.
The full list of winners and
their schools follows:
SENIOR DIVISIONS
Short Story
Eo@sry Blair; ponia 4; Whiteley,
walter Joh;on Senior HiEh; Gvrin aslyn
swiger. George Mason. Jr.; Diane M,
Wolfe, Calvin Coolidge High School.
Certificates Of Merit: Philip A. Bau-
liner. MontEomery- Blair; jeanne N.
Goldman, Walter johnson; Rebecca D.
Campbell, Walter Johnson; Barbara
Won Eckhardt. Walter johnson; Lynne
Crane. George Mason: John N. Zeigler,
GeorEe Mason; stephan L, Mirt5, High
Janice Erdesky, Elizabeth Seton High /:
Aram Bakshian. ir., woodward School;
Michael Walker. Western; Anne Burke,
Gaithersburg.
Informal Essay
Gold Keys: Jay K. Wright. wash
ington:Lee; Roberta Koch. Northwood.
:, Certificates Of Merit: Nerve. M.
Mclean; Jay X. Wright Washington
Lee: Jeane- Pierre A. Courbois. West
esssn: Robert a, Walker, Western; An
da D. Bulwinkle. George Mason; Vello
9inas; n%n: SsiE,h CALVIN So1;dg SS1;GdIidge Dayid W.
Ter, Calvin Coolidge: Eugene A. ouind-
len; GonZaga; Margaret E. Bell,
Bishop Denis j.. o'Donnell: Sophie
schidlorsky. Woodrow Wilson.
ExpositOry Article
GoId Keys; Mary ". Norris, Wash
ineton-Lee; Laura r. Langbein, wash
ington-Lee; Kathy ]. Bruton, Calvin
Certificates of Merit: Patricia A.
Nook, .Washington-Lee: Charles r. Hob
son, Washington-Lee: Joan Zurich,
Mashington-Lee; Alan N. Kanter,
Western: Michael Schwartz, Western;
Raynor Duncombe, Western.
Dramatic Script
Gold Key: l.. Keith Cohen, Bethesda
Chevy Chase: Frederick Upson III,
WaShington-Lee: George e. schor. CAL
Certificates Of Merit: ssndra x. Kim
caid, Washington-Lee: JoAnn D. Hrs
chorn Woodrow Wilson,; Anne M.
Johnston, Notre Dame Academy.
Gold Keys: Janet L. Webster, WASH
lngton-Lee: Roberta Koch. Northwood:
Linda Williams. Walter Johnson David
y: Seibert. Northwestern: Robert @.