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Show McCarrel, Dods, Stauffer Cop Top Honors In Animal Christmas Literature Contest Susan McCarrel's short story, j "A White ; Christmas," was judged the prize-winning entry in the story division of the Scribe's seventh , annual Christmas Christ-mas literature contest. First prize winner in the essay group wap Donald Stauffer, for his theme,"" f American Christmas' Lou Dods won first place in the poetry division with "A Soldier's Sol-dier's Prayer.' : Second prize story was "The Shepherd," by Velda Schofield. Honorable mention ' in the story division was received by Shirley Ancell. with her "A Soldier's Delusion," De-lusion," and Margaret Phillips for "Brave Mission." "Christmas 1943," by Lou Dods, won second place iri the essay division. Max-ine Max-ine Rirto'B' poem, "Remember When," received second place in that division. Marilyn Owen's poem, "A Soldier's Christmas," won honorable mention. Susan's first prize, story con-cerned con-cerned an English boy who had been adopted by an American professor pro-fessor and his wife. This family s celebration of .Christmas is beautifully beau-tifully depicted in this story, as the student body , will probably agree with the judges' choice, which is published on page 3. "The Shepherd," by Velda Schofield, Scho-field, and Shirley Ancell's honorable honor-able mention story, "A Soldiers Delusion", are also published m this, issue, . "American Christmas," by Donald Don-ald Stauffer, won first place in the essay division solely for his straight-forward way , of exposing expos-ing what Americans do want for Christmas, Lou Dods' essAy,, "Christmas, 1943," , won a close second in the essay division. "A Soldier's Prayer." first prize poem by Lou Dods, alsa published in this issue of the Scribe. Faculty judges were Miss Martin; Mar-tin; Mrs. Claire L. Jackson, Mr. Granville Oleson, and Miss Laura Warren. Student judges were Lor na Call, Berneice Nash, and Beu-lah Beu-lah Latimer. The stories were judged on originality, orig-inality, excellence of plot, composition, com-position, freedom from errors, aind neathe&s. ' , Certificates of Merit will be awarded the students by Lorna Call, Scribe editor. |
