March 19, 198S
The Voice
Page 3
A national essay contest offering
a $10,000 scholarship and three
$2,500 honorable mentions has
been announced by the Institute of
Financial Education.
The contest, based on the theme
“You Can Save Your Country,” is
open to all full-time students at
four-year colleges and universities,,
community colleges, and
vocational and technical schools.
Full-time high school seniors also
‘are eligible.
Essays are limited to 1,500
Save Your Country
■ words. They will be judged on the
basis of documentation,
originality, clarity, logic and
persuasiveness in their presenta
tion of how federal deficit
spending affects the country's and
the writer's future. Entry deadline
is Tuesday, April 23, 1985.
IFE President Dale Bottom said
The Institute is conducting the
essay contest “to help alert our
young people to the problems they
will face because the federal
government is building up the
national debt — and to generate
some thinking that could help lead
to possible solutions.”
Bottom noted that the federal
government has amassed $1.6
trillion in debt and currently
spends $4.00 for every $3.00 it
collects from taxes and other
revenues.
“We must tell our elected
officials in Washington, D.C.,
that we don't want to saddle
ourselves and future generations
with a crushing debt burden,” said
Bottom in a letter to college
presidents.
Essays entered in the IFE
contest will be forwarded to
Congress.
The contest is being run in
conjunction with a nationwide
“You Can Save Your Country”
campaign backed by the United
States League of Savings
Institutions.
Essays should be sent to “You
Can Save Your Country” national
essay contest, Institute of
Financial Education, 111 East
Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601.
The essays must be typed, double
spaced on plain white letter-size
(8'/2 X II) paper and include the
home address and home telephone
number of the contestant — plus
the name and address of the
school. The writer's name must
appear on each page of the essay.
Entries must be postmarked no
later than April 23, 1985 and
received no later than the close of
business April 29, 1985.
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