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Show Contest Seeks to Find Future Leaders of Science - 1 - - ' - - , . - - . . M - -, -'4-.J . V ,v l t .- tr if . , h.7 " - - f , " ,V ' I' ' ' f, .7.. .'..J ' - i Bf..ir -r i ... ,w ,ti fr - .maSfcrttfrttf u, A , A rift , ,11 1 r WM-ii Evelyn Pease helped to synthesize four new and Important drngs while making a critical study of the sulfa series. She won a scholarship in 1942. Although only 19, she is a Junior at the University of Michigan. Her home is in Evansville, Ind. Scholarships Offered To Nation's Top-Ranking High School Seniors The first week in March, Washington Washing-ton will spread out the welcome mat for 11 girls and 29 boys 311 high school seniors. They'll come from North, South, East and West; from schools with as many as 800 students stu-dents in the graduating class and as few as 12. The youngest is 16, the oldest 13. Some are 4-H'ers, some Scouts or Hi Vers, but their common interest is science. All 40 youngsters have shown a marked r.ptitude for science in stiff competition with thousands of other teen-agers, and have been named as finalists in the fourth annual nationwide nation-wide Science Talent Search conducted conduct-ed by Science Clubs of America. The Washington trip, with all expenses paid, is awarded the finalists to give them an opportunity to compete for $11,000 in scholarships provided by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Man-ufacturing Co. The purpose of the search is to discover these youngsters of exceptional excep-tional aptitude, help them obtain an education and begin careers in science. sci-ence. Thus a pool of trained scientists scien-tists will be formed on which America Amer-ica can draw for leadership in the future. To one boy and one girl will be awarded a Science Grand Scholarship Scholar-ship worth $2,400. Eight runners-up will receive $400 scholarships, and an additional $3,000 will be awarded at the discretion of the judges. Interviews In-terviews with the judges, and exams, ex-ams, during their five-day stay in Washington will determine the scholarship awards. If history repeats itself, these 40 finalists and also another 260 youngsters who received "honorable mention" in the search may be pleasantly surprised to find themselves them-selves considered worthy of financial assistance from still another source. Scholarships worth almost $82,500 were granted by American colleges and universities to the 300 top-ranking entrants in the search concluded two years ago. This was exclusive of the $11,000 awarded as' a direct result of the search. One girl wrote that had she been able to accept all the scholarships offered her, she would have received a total of $36,000. It isn't "all exams and no play" for these science-talented boys and girls while they're in the capital. They'll see the sights, participate in a radio broadcast, and put on a hobby show of their own. Not all their hobbies are scientific. Among the boys, one finds model railroad and model airplane enthusiasts, enthu-siasts, a glass-blower, several stamp collectors and amateur photographers. photogra-phers. One of the girls redesigns patterns for her family's and her own clothing. Many are musical, playing more than one instrument. They go in for dramatics, cryptograms, crypto-grams, chess. But if they follow in the footsteps of the 120 finalists in the past three searches, science will continue to be their first love. Except for those in the armed forces whose scholarships scholar-ships are being held in trust all are in college preparing themselves for a career in science. Some have already utilized their talents in summer jobs. Evelyn Pease, for instance, a 1942 winner now in her junior year at the University Uni-versity of Michigan, worked in a pharmaceutical laboratory in her home town. She made a critical study of the five best-known drugs of the sulfa series and helped synthesize syn-thesize and investigate the properties proper-ties of four new ones. Then there's Mary Ann Williams who spent the summer working for a nylon laboratory where she made chemical analyses of nylon, the material ma-terial of which both parachutes and the tow ropes that pull gliders through the air are made. Science even follows finalists on active military duty. Pvt. Robert Lynch, now in Europe, is doing secret se-cret work dealing with the robot bomb. Pvt. Harlan J. Smith is stationed sta-tioned at Stuttgart Army Air Field in Arkansas as a weather observer. I 1 i . . i y. ' I1 f Another 1942 winner, Pfc. Allen Voight of Salem, Ore., turns his technical training to the service of his country. He is doing medical research at Bushnell general hospital, hospit-al, Brigham City, Utah. |