Maryknoll announces winners of annual essay contest

Published: 2005-03-22

MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (CNS) -- Students in Maryland and Minnesota each took first-place honors and a $1,000 prize in the annual essay contest sponsored by Maryknoll. Hillary Wright, a seventh-grader at St. Mary School in Landover Hills, Md., won the Bishop Francis X. Ford Award for students in grades six to eight. Kayla Ann Smith, a home schooled ninth-grader from Stillwater, Minn., received the Bishop Patrick J. Byrne Award for those in grades nine through 12. More than 5,400 entries were submitted for the contest, which asked students to describe a true experience when they or someone they knew about stood up for fairness and justice.

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