General News: Hudson RIver Essay Contest
November 10, 2008
Mount Saint Mary College invites New York State college and high school students to enter its Hudson River Essay Contest, sponsored by Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation. The essay competition is being held to celebrate the 2009 Hudson-Fulton Quadricentennial.
Essays must focus on the Hudson River and be a maximum of 1,000 words. Judges will be looking for creativity, as well as accuracy. Writers are expected to conduct research and provide their sources in a Works Cited page.
The Mount will award a prize of $500 and a certificate of merit to one college student and one high school student and the two winning essays will be published. The college will invite the authors to present their essays during an honors seminar on the Hudson River Valley in February 2009 at the Mount.
A team of educators, led by Dr. Jerome Wyant, the Mount‘s associate dean for curriculum, will judge the entries. Wyant coordinates an honors program on the Hudson River at the college, whose main campus sits on a hill overlooking the river.
A student could describe and evaluate one to three historical period of the Hudson River Valley, such as the Dutch Colonization period beginning in 1609,” said Wyant, “or the ecological development of the river or its legacy to the region and the state."
Entries should be sent to Dr. Jerome Wyant, Hudson River Essay Contest, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY 12550 or [email protected] and must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2008. For more details, visit www.msmc.edu.
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