An illustrated essay on the Lincoln Park totem pole and a storyboard on a venerable house in Ravenswood Gardens won top awards for two pupils at Hawthorne Scholastic Academy in the 31st annual history contest sponsored by the Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association.
Sara Pope, a sixth grader at Hawthorne, took top honors with her essay “The Mystery of the Lincoln Park Totem Pole,” and Kate Draths, a Hawthorne seventh grader, won the art project category with “The Hunholtz House: A Step Back in Time.”
Twenty-six contest winners will be honored at ceremonies on Thursday, May 23, at 7 p.m. in the Louis Lerner Auditorium of Conrad Sulzer Regional Library. Richard C. Bjorklund, contest chairman and first vice president of the association, said winners will receive more than $2,800 in cash prizes, patriotic medallions and junior memberships in the association, founded in 1935 by the Chicago Public Library and residents of the Ravenswood-Lake View community.
Other essay winners include Lauren Alanis, eighth grader at St. Luke Academy, for “The Oral History of the Paulina Market;” Ernesto Escalante, also an eighth grader at St. Luke, for “Kutsch School of Nursing;” Tim Geistlinger, St. Luke sixth grader, for “Paulina Market - ‘Links’ to Lake View.”
Margaret Lefkow, Hawthorne seventh grader, for “The Uptown Theater;” Alex Lewis, sixth grader at Hawthorne, for “The History of German Immigrants in Lake View;” Melissa Serrano, Lake View High School freshman, for “History of the Music Box Theater;” Alex L. Simon, seventh grader at Hawthorne, for “Ravenswood-Lake View Neighborhood Streets,” and Edgar Valentin, Jr., St. Luke seventh grader, for “Wrigley Strikes Chicago.”
Art winners include Daniel Berg, Hawthorne sixth grader, for “Lincoln Park Totem Pole;” Boone School sixth graders Matthew Colston, Nicholas Hansen, Jeffrey Havey, Imran Shahbuddi and Ryan Strong for their video “Wrigley Field: Lights, Camera...Reaction;” Kristina Cooper, sixth grader at Hawthorne, for “Vintage Victorian;” Joe Frendreis and Katie Frendreis, eighth graders at St. Matthias School, for “Riverview: Laugh Your Troubles Away.”
Monica Godinez and Winnie Miranda, freshmen at Lake View High School, for “The Pershing Davis Theater;” Charles Hughes, Hawthorne sixth grader, for “Krause Music Store;” Dylan Schroeder, Hawthorne seventh grader, for “Music Box,” and Mica Thompson, eighth grade pupil at Hawthorne, for “Every House Has a History: 2021 Hutchinson.”
Special class-project awards were made to St. Luke Academy’s kindergarten class for “Churches of the Ravenswood-Lake View Community,” and to first and second graders at St. Luke for “A Street with a Different Name.”
Patrick Butler, president of the association, announced that the association and the Chicago Public Library will unveil a bookplate that will appear in volumes in the Conrad Sulzer Library’s Chicago Region History Collection honoring the late Ald. John J. Hoellen (47th) and his wife Mary Jane for their generous contributions to building the unique reference collection that is heavily used by scholars and community residents.
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