BUENA PARK : Students Win Prizes for Patriotic Slogans

Rebecca Morgan, a senior at Canyon High in Anaheim, won $650 for placing first in Orange County in the 24th annual patriotic slogan contest sponsored by the Americanism Educational League.

Rebecca’s slogan, “Our Statue of Liberty--the Real First Lady” was selected from among 10,753 entries submitted this year.

In the slogan contest, second prize and $450 went to Gina Homik of Foothill High in Tustin for the slogan, “In America--Your Future is Up to You! “

Wayne Allen, a student at Ocean View High, earned $300 and the trustees’ trophy for his third-place slogan, “America: One Nation Still Under God.”

Monique Elliott of Fountain Valley High got $250 and the Freedom Center Volunteers Trophy for the slogan, “America: Limited Government=Unlimited Opportunity.”

The awards, along with $2,000 more in cash prizes given to 23 other students, were presented last week at Knott’s Berry Farm.

In a separate division, the essay contest, the winner was Diana Coleman of Ocean View High in Huntington Beach, who submitted the best entry on the assigned topic “School Violence: The Causes, The Cures.”

Second place and $200 in the 300-word essay contest went to Claudia Herrera of Mater Dei High in Santa Ana and Daniel Murphy of Irvine’s Woodbridge High earned $100 and third place.

Started in 1971, the patriotic slogan contest is designed to “focus Orange County high schoolers’ attention on the benefits of private enterprise, limited Constitutional government and America’s heritage of liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility,” according to the organizers.