1/22/97 Contact: Dr. Marvin Fletcher, Ohio University, 614/593-4363
NOTE TO EDITORS: A complete list of winners in the 1995 American History contest from your area is enclosed, with home addresses and names of high schools included.
ATHENS, Ohio-- Twenty-five Ohio high school seniors and juniors are winners in the final round of Ohio University's 50th annual American History Contest held on the Athens campus.
Aaron Flicker, a student at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, won first place in the statewide competition, winning a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to Ohio University and a $100 cash award.
More than 17,500 students at 390 Ohio high schools took the preliminary multiple-choice examination at their local schools in October.
The two hour, final-round essay examination included questions dealing with Anglo-American controversies in the period between 1763 and 1774; the extent to which economic, political, social and military policies changed American life during the Civil War; comparison of the New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s and the Republican government in the 1920s to the Reagan Administration in the 1980s; and a discussion of African-American life before Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. Students were to answer three of the four questions.
Second place winner, Alex Blumer, of Summit Country Day High School, Cincinnati, received a one-year, $1,500 Ohio University scholarship and a $75 cash prize. Third and fourth place winners received $1,500 one-year scholarships and $65 and $60. The fifth place winner received a $1,500 scholarship and $55.
Sixth through twelfth place winners received $1,250 scholarships and cash awards ranging from $50 to $25. Those placing 13th through 25th students received Certificates of Superior Achievement Awards.
The $150 Outstanding High School awards, based on a school's numbers of preliminary and final round winners, were given to six high schools. The first place winners were Westerville North High School, large school division; Walnut Hills High School, medium school division and Summit Country Day, small school division.
The second place winners in each division were Beavercreek High School, Van Wert High School and Ursuline Academy.
Ohio University's Annual American History contest is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the admissions Office and the History Department. Contest coordinator is History Professor Mavin Fletcher.