VOL. 6. NOS. 7 AND 8 HIGH-Scnoo~ ESSAY WINNERS 1265

WINNERS OF HIGBSCHOOL PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST, 1928-29

The American Chemical Society recently announced the national winners in its sixth prize essay contest for high-school students. The prizes are being awarded to the writers of the best essays on each of six subjects relating to chemistry. Each prize consists of a four-year tuition-paid scholarship and $500 each year a t any approved college or university in the United States.

Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, is the new Chairman of the National Awards Committee which selected the prize-winning essays, succeeding President Hoover who .has occupied the chairmanship since the beginning of the contest in 1923.

The successful students are the following:

C. JELLERR CARR Evening High School, The Relation of Chemistry to Health Baltimore City College,

and Disease Baltimore, Md. RUTH KNOBLE Flathead County High School.

The Relation of Chemistry to the En- Kalispell, Mont. richment of Life

GUINEVERE CROUCH Boise High School, The Relation of Chemistry to Agxicul- Boise, Idaho.

ture A ~ Z I A H PARKER SMITE Chapel Hill High School,

The Relation of Chemistry to National Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Defense

MORGAN I,. WALTER~ Rock Springs High School, The Relation of Chemistry to the Home ~ock%prings, Wyo.

JOHN DOUGLAS MARTIN Soldan High School, The Relation of Chemistry to an In- St. Louis, Mo.

dustry

The prizes for the contest and the funds for its conduct are the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York City, made as a memorial to their daughter Patricia.

Eight of the national prize winners of the past five contests have been graduated from college; nineteen are now in attendance a t college, and the remaining three will enter college next fall.

The contest, designed to stimulate a better appreciation of chemistry, is annually conducted in each State, where the prizes are $20 in gold and the participation of the winning essays in the national contest. The con- test will be repeated in 1929-30, as will the other two contests for college freshmen and normal school and teachers' college students, also conducted by the American Chemical Society with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Garvan.

If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.