11/18/98
ATHENS, Ohio -- The final round of Ohio University's 52nd Annual American History contest is scheduled for Dec. 3 on the Athens campus, with the first place winner receiving a four-year, full tuition Ohio University scholarship and $100. Students also will receive over $600 in cash awards and over $10,000 in scholarships.
More than 17,000 students at 360 Ohio high schools took the preliminary multiple choice examination at their local high schools in October.
In the preliminary round, Emma Kuby, of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, was the top scorer, answering 72 of the 80 questions correctly. Kuby will receive the Carl Gustavson Book Award, named in honor of Gustavson, an Ohio University Emeritus distinguished professor of history. This year's book is "MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign," by Stephen Taaffe, who completed a Ph.D in history at Ohio University in 1996.
In addition to the top scorer, those eligible for the final round's three-question essay examination include the highest scorer in each of Ohio's 88 counties, and all county scores in the 99th percentile of scores for all entrants, or the second and third highest scorer from each county if ranked in at least the 95th percentile.
The second, third, fourth and fifth place winners will receive one-year Ohio University scholarships of $1,500. The sixth through twelfth place winners will receive $1,250 Ohio University tuition scholarships.
Outstanding High School Awards of $150 and $100 will go to the six schools with the largest number of winners in the two rounds. In addition, three of the schools will be able to nominate a student for a $1,000 Ohio University scholarship.
Participants will be notified Jan. 25, 1999 of the results of their examinations.
The concert is sponsored by the Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences, The Department of History and the Admissions Office, and is directed by Professor of History Marvin Fletcher.