Stanley A. Wolpert of Brooklyn. New York, a student at the College of the City of New York is first prize winner of the National Council of Jewish Women’s nation-wide essay contest for college senior on “The Meaning of Academic Freedom.” it was announced here today at the triennial convention of the Council.
Mr. Wolpert was presented $2,500 cash award by Thurman W. Amold, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals and a contest judge. Richard N. Clewell of Allentown. Pennsylvania, pre-theological stdudent at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, won second prizes of $500 each were taken, respectively, by Sanford A. Lakoff, of Bayonne, New Jersey, a Brandeis University student; Miss Jean Berko of Dayton, Ohio, a Radcliffe College student; and Robert E. Rose, of Boulder, Colorado, a University of Colorado student.
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