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Summary:

An anthology of poetry, essays, art, and music composed by high school students who were awarded Presidential Scholar medallions.

Table of Contents:

• Shaking, I fed three dimes ; ah yes there we were ; Portrait : Juan ; At Pére Lachaise ; 8:0 ; A.M. ; Fossilized ; Clausland Mountain / Celia Jaffe
• Essay / Eve Kahn
• The wanderer ; Moment - ballgame ; 6/29/7/2/80/DC / Joan Hotelling
• The spanking ; The National Enquirer junkie / Julia Rubin
• Thanksgiving dinner / Polly Shulman
• Journal / Jana Branch
• I cast my life as a candle glowing / Jeffrey Davis
• Evolution / Caroline Beth Reeves
• Creation myth / Eric Anderson
• Them / Sarah Albee
• The little boy / Andrew Flint
• The theme of Madame Bovary / Mary E. Sullivan
• Election day / David Moran
• Clouds / Mark Kline
• Global 2000 and U.S. responsibility / Kirsten J. Hund
• To the author of the New England Courant / Deborah Douglas
• Sonnets of induced lunacy / William Scott Lucas
• The jump / Christopher Hamilton
• Calculaterratum / Carol Springs
• Keaton and Homo sapiens of the female gender / Lawrence Tanimoto

• Freakin' out at Disneyland / William Scott Lucas
• Back to normalcy / Elizabeth Levy
• Why the sea is salt ; Mourning glory / Charles Hwang
• Symbiosis / Sylvia Cerel
• Egalitarian mythmaking in higher education / Carolyn Reiser
• Solar energy for the Virgin Islands / Harold G. Thompson, Jr.
• Review of Vergil's Aeneid / Eric Anderson
• Sophocles' Antigone : an artistic failure / Sam Hirsch
• Editorial : Alaska's Expo '84 / Clinton McDade
• The Alaska lands debate / Elizabeth Argetsinger
• The only child of today : a rebuttal / Tamara Fountain
• Lines composed a few miles from Lexington High School / Eugene Lee
• from Two movements for piano / Michael Arnowitt
• Man of stars / Nelson Begay
• Life / Mark Templer

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Contributors:

United States Commission on Presidential Scholars

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: 1980 presidential scholars digest ([Washington] : The Commission, [198-] — OCLC Number 760350503)

Subjects:

Presidential Scholars

United States

Genres:

Literature

General Notes:

Federal Information Preservation Network copy of this title. Do not discard.
Condition: Good

Physical Description:

x, 106 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

PR 39.8:SCH 6/D 56/980

SuDocs Numbers:

Pr 39.8:Sch 6/D 56/980

Other Standard Numbers:

Government Printing Office Item Number: 0851-J

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

81183593

OCLC Numbers:

12695928