Newspaper item about Billy: 6/3/1934
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The Atlanta Journal reports on a scholarship that Billy has won.
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BOYS' HIGH SENIOR WINS SCHOLARSHIP TO U. OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO, June 2.---William T. Stokey, a senior at the Boys' High School, Atlanta, Ga., is a $150 scholarship winner in the twenty-second annual prize scholarship contest sponsored by the University of Chicago. The results of examinations conducted in eighteen cities for the past two weeks have just been announced been announced by the university's board of examiners, which prepared and graded the papers. Stokey's exact score is not known, but it is one of the first forty-seven. There were 894 of the brightest seniors of the country, from 108 high schools, competing in this contest.
If Stokey accepts this scholarship, he will enter the University of Chicago under its famous new plan, which stresses the importance of individual initiative, discards most of the traditional types of compulsion, such as required class attendance, and allows for rapid progress by exceptional students. His award covers half tuition for one year. The top twenty-five students in the examination were awarded full scholarships and the next twenty-two were awarded half scholarships.
CHICAGO, June 2.---William T. Stokey, a senior at the Boys' High School, Atlanta, Ga., is a $150 scholarship winner in the twenty-second annual prize scholarship contest sponsored by the University of Chicago. The results of examinations conducted in eighteen cities for the past two weeks have just been announced been announced by the university's board of examiners, which prepared and graded the papers. Stokey's exact score is not known, but it is one of the first forty-seven. There were 894 of the brightest seniors of the country, from 108 high schools, competing in this contest.
If Stokey accepts this scholarship, he will enter the University of Chicago under its famous new plan, which stresses the importance of individual initiative, discards most of the traditional types of compulsion, such as required class attendance, and allows for rapid progress by exceptional students. His award covers half tuition for one year. The top twenty-five students in the examination were awarded full scholarships and the next twenty-two were awarded half scholarships.
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This is one of a series of documents that I have uploaded featuring school graduations in the Stokey family and among the Stokey in-laws.
You can find the whole list in:
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William T. Stokey, a senior at the Boys' High School, Atlanta, Ga., is a $150 scholarship winner in the twenty-second annual prize scholarship contest sponsored by the University of Chicago.
William T. Stokey had to be Billy, even though the middle initial should have been F.
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His award covers half tuition for one year.
The family told Alma the good news. See: What is Billy going to do next year? I did not know that he had finished school, but if he won a half scholarship it sounds as if he had finished. I shall be very glad to provide the other half of the scholarship - I would love to do it. I am sure he will be a credit to his family.
Alma got her PhD from the University of Chicago, so she may well have been hoping that her nephew would take the half-scholarship.
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Billy didn't take the half scholarship. He went to the Georgia Institute of Technology instead. I daresay he could get a better scholarship at a local school, and also he could save money by living at home. And maybe he just liked Georgia Tech better.
This is one of a series of documents that I have uploaded featuring school graduations in the Stokey family and among the Stokey in-laws.
- The previous document in the series is: 1922-05-05 SIBYL'S NURSING SCHOOL GRADUATION PROGRAM
- The next document in the series is: 1935-05-18 INVITATION TO EVA TO MAGGIE'S COLLEGE GRADUATION
You can find the whole list in:
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William T. Stokey, a senior at the Boys' High School, Atlanta, Ga., is a $150 scholarship winner in the twenty-second annual prize scholarship contest sponsored by the University of Chicago.
William T. Stokey had to be Billy, even though the middle initial should have been F.
3.
His award covers half tuition for one year.
The family told Alma the good news. See: What is Billy going to do next year? I did not know that he had finished school, but if he won a half scholarship it sounds as if he had finished. I shall be very glad to provide the other half of the scholarship - I would love to do it. I am sure he will be a credit to his family.
Alma got her PhD from the University of Chicago, so she may well have been hoping that her nephew would take the half-scholarship.
4.
Billy didn't take the half scholarship. He went to the Georgia Institute of Technology instead. I daresay he could get a better scholarship at a local school, and also he could save money by living at home. And maybe he just liked Georgia Tech better.
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