Summer School Names Winners In Annual Poetry Writing Contest

Parker W. Swanson '63, of Lowell House and Houston, Texas received the first place award of $25 in the annual Summer Poetry Competition, sponsored by the Harvard Summer School.

The second place prize of $10 went to Mrs. Kay C. Willke, Grinnell '59 who teachers English at the Franklin Institute, Boston. Eugene E. Grollmes, S.J., of Boston, was awarded the third place prize of $5, and Susan B. Schwarts '63, of West Hartford, Connecticut and Bertram Hall received an additional fourth place prize, also of $5. A citation of honorable mention went to John N. Paden 2G, of Pasadena, California.

Walter Clark, Dean of students of the Summer School; Denis Donoghue, visiting lecturer in English Literature; and James K. Robinson, visiting professor of English judged the entries.

The judges rated the entrants on their merits as poets, rather than on single entries, regardless of the number of works submitted to the contest. As the poems were judged by pen names, the identities of the poets were unknown to the judges until the winning entrants were decided upon.

The five winners will read their poetry to the final program of the Summer Poetry Reading Series in the Forum Room of Lamont Library, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, August 14. Selection from the work submitted by the winners will be published in the Tuesday Summer News.