A. Featured Women

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The Women's Club of Freeport is sponsoring a contest for high school students: "Women from Our Past." Students will be given the following list of outstanding women to write an essay of at least 500 words on one of the women on the list. Prizes:      1st—$1,000 U.S. Savings Bond      2nd—$500 U.S. Savings Bond      3rd—$250 U.S. Savings Bond      The contest will be judged by members of the Freeport high schools English departments, who will be chosen by their principals. Names will be announced next month.      Here are the women on the list. You are to write a news release announcing the contest. The winning essays will be included in a pamphlet the club will publish and distribute to high school history classes. The club plans to make this an annual contest.

Ethel Barrymore, 8/16/1879-6/18/1959 Mary Beard, 8/5/1876-8/14/1958 Mary McLeod Bethune, 7/10/1875-5/18/1955 Rachel Carson, 5/27/1907-4/14/1964 Carrie Chapman Catt, 1/9/1859-3/9/1947 Dorothy Day, 11/9/1897-11/29/1980 Emily Dickinson, 12/10/1830-5/15/1886 Dorothea Dix, 4/4/1802-7/18/1887 Isadora Duncan, 5/27/1878-9/14/1927 Mary Baker Eddy, 7/16/1821-12/3/1910 Margaret Fuller, 5/23/1810-7/19/1850 Sarah Hale, 10/24/1788-4/30/1879

Alice Hamilton, 2/27/1869-9/22/1970 Julia Ward Howe, 5/27/1819-10/17/1910 Helen Keller, 6/27/1880-6/1/1968 Dorothea Lange, 5/26/1895-10/11/1965 Margaret Mead, 12/16/1901-11/15/1978 Edna St. Vincent Millay, 2/22/1892-10/19/1950 Frances Perkins, 4/10/1880-5/14/1965 Bessie Smith, 4/15/1894-9/26/1937 Gertrude Stein, 2/3/1874-7/27/1946 Harriet Beecher Stowe, 6/14/1811-7/1/1896 Harriet Tubman, c. 1821-3/10/13 Edith Wharton, 1/24/1862-8/11/1937

     Select one or two of the women on the list and feature your selection(s) in your news release.

B. Librarian

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Among the 850,000 high school students who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test five years ago, fewer than 300 indicated that they intended to study library science in college. That's a small fraction of 1 percent and by far the smallest intended college major.      Obtain the latest SAT data. In which majors do students show little interest? Interview faculty members on campus to explain the choices. If possible find out what local high school students intend to select as their major in college.