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Show Literary Contestants Base Stories on World of War Winners Are Schofield, Layton, Jar vis A tone of war in many contributions contri-butions and an underlying motif of blood and guns in others featured feat-ured South Scribe's sixth annual Christmas literary contest, won by Velda Schofield, story; Bob Lay ton, poetry, and Elaine Jarvis, essay. Judges said that the contest this year drew wider response from the student body than any of the five preceding contests. They also noted not-ed a superior style of writing in the 19-12 literature hunt. Miss Schofield based her story against a background of wartime Norway. Judges rated her story high on many standpoints. Her winning original contribution, "Christmas Gift" is printed with the other winners on page 3. Second prize in the story division was awarded to Marvin McNeil, who utlized another war theme to write "Christmas Sojourn." Honorable Hon-orable mention stories were written writ-ten by Bob Layton, Susan McCar-roll, McCar-roll, and A. T. Challis, although their works were not published in this issue. Winner in the poetry division was Bob Layton, who topped a wide-field wide-field of contestants with his poem, "Remember," based on an appeal to stop and think of those in lands under oppression. Second prize went to Elaine Jar-vis' Jar-vis' "Old Fashioned Christmas," while Phyllis Clayton and Kirk Brimley garnered honorable mentions. men-tions. In the assay division, Elaine Jarvis wrote "Chirstmas Spirit" to head the list of writers. Phyllis Clayton took second place, while Shirley Ancell won honorable mention, men-tion, although her essay was not published. Judges in the contest were Mrs. Claire Jackson, Granville Oleson, and Miss Myrth Harvey of the faculty, and Beverly F.gbert, contest con-test editor; Milton Hollstein, and Julia Spitz from the Scribe staff. |