Ruth Blank Venner & Mary Jane Blank McCormick Essay Contest
The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library is proud to announce the 2013 Ruth Blank Venner and Mary Jane Blank McCormick Essay Contest. This year’s theme is Reading: Your Future! From cave paintings to computers, the ways we read have changed. For this essay contest, imagine how (and what) you might read in the future. How will young people learn to read and what will they use to read? When you go to the Library what will you see? What will the perfect Library look like?
This year’s essay contest is open to grades K through 12 and is a 500 word maximum. Grade level essay categories are as follows: K-2ndgrade, 3rd -5th, 6th -8th, and 9th –12th. Prizes will be awarded to winning essay entrants: 1st place $200, 2nd place $100, 3rd place $50 and 6 honorable mentions will be awarded $25 each in each category. Prizes are provided by the Ruth Blank Venner and Mary Jane Blank McCormick Memorial Project of the Friends of the Library.
Contest essay forms are available at all Library branch locations, at Main Library, on the Library’s official website (toledolibrary.org) and on the Library’s Bookmobile and cybermobile (Outreach Services). Essays must be turned in by March 30, 2013. No entries will be accepted after March 30, 2013.
The late Ruth Blank Venner was a past president of the Friends of the Library (FOL) and an active member. Mrs. Venner, who died in 1996, was married 44 years to the well-known television news anchor Frank Venner. Mrs. Venner’s brother Leon W. Blank, as a way to honor his sister’s memory and to promote reading among youth, established the Ruth Blank Venner Memorial Project of the Friends of the Library beginning in 1996. In 2010, Mr. Blank added the memory of his other sister Mary Jane Blank McCormick to the essay contest and FOL Memorial Project. Mary Jane Blank McCormick died in 2009.
For additional information visit toledolibrary.org, or call 419.259.5200.
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Organization Name: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
Organization Address: Toledo, OH