Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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ECHO CONTESTS The division of our literary material this year into senior and junior departments ap- proximately doubled our contests. and ad- ditional recognition to contributors was given by the awarding of hrst and second prizes in most contests. All contests were judged by five judges, in most cases including three teachers and two students. and awards were made entirely upon a basis of total points as indicated by the decision of individual judges. In several cases the judges were very critical of the careless set-up of material sub- mitted. but in general we feel that the entries reveal evidence of promising ability. The Echo hopes that next year the response to the contests may be more general. Our cover this year was designed by Don. Potter of 4M. There were several very fine entries in this contest. and honorable mention certainly is due the following: G. Altpeter. 4G: M. Kelleher, IB: l, Nightin- gale. ZF, and M. Saunders, -lG. The Senior Essay Contest required the opinions of seven judges before the hrst award was tinally made to Ruth Kraisman, 351, and the second award to Edna George, 351, Yery close competition was provided here by Elsie Anderson, 4G, and Olive Kay. 451. The Senior Short Story award went to Alex. Gillies, 351: the second award going to Ruth Garlin, 4G. and honorable mention to Madeline Mason. 3C. The Poetry Contest was an open contest. and the Senior School regained its leadership here with the first award being made to Dorothy Sigmund, Special One. and the second award to Olive Kay. 451. Honorable mention was earned by Ruth Crook. ZF. and Helen Bradshaw. Special One. The judges were especially interested in the quality of the entries for the junior Essay Contest, which gives detinite promise of better things for next year. Here the hrst award went to Donna Kilpatrick, ZC. and the second award to Dick Ritchie. ZC. The points were considerably scattered by the judges in this contest, and honorable mention must be made of the entries of Verna Smith, 2F: Elsie Hill, ZH: and Marybelle Mullan, ZH EASTERN ECHO The junior Short Story award was made to Marguerite Eide, ZH, and the second award to Douglas Boase. ZC. with honor- able mention being earned by Elsie Hill, ZH. Humour Contest awards were made to Bob Harvie, IG. twho, incidentally, has assisted the Echo greatly this year with his cartoon worklg Alex. Gillies. SSI. and George Reeder. 4G. Souvenir copies of the Echo also will be presented to the following win- ners of the Poster Contest: Marian Wang- land. 451: Mona O'Hearn. SSS: Lillian Roberts, IA: Kathleen Wilson. ZG. and Mel- vin Norton. -lG. The Echo will sponsor similar contests next year. and expects more and better entries. We really do believe that there is sure to be literary talent among nearly two thousand young people. and the chief pur- pose of these contests is to uncover that talent. And. just a word of advice-do not attempt only dramatic and tragic themes. You will notice that our senior short stories have a very pronounced sense of the tears in things , although Gillies also did reveal a sense of humour. It is likely that you will do your best work when writing sincerely of your own experiences, Some literary material published was not entered in contests. and the Echo Staff re- grets that it has not space to publish more. The Class Paper Contests did not draw so many entries as we had expected, but the Senior Contest certainly did provide a problem for the judges. Once more we had to call upon seven judges. and even then Spicy Bits, 351: 35-Vs Cl01'0IIllfi01I Special, and .elcfal .Yf:.rtru, SSS. were left exactly tied. The 5A E.rq11.'rc was also a close competitor. ZH's Echo Jznzior, in the Second Year Con- test. won a clear decision over ZC's Echo- rllr and The ZA Esquire. School Daze by IK was awarded first place in the First Year Contest, with close competition being pro- vided by ll'lE' IA ClfI1lIIlIFl'4'f Chong and T115 Gale by 1L. May we suggest to the first year editors that they try to produce more original literary material and lessfindeed much less-very personal gossip . Thanks, entrants and judges. and we are sorry that the Echo has space for only a really limited amount of the material that has been available. Thirteen

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