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mitted offered the most difficult prob lems the judges were called upon to solve.I think I may say that without exception each design was meritorious and the utter lack of unanimity in the decisions of the three judges bespeaks the closeness of the contest. We each selected three designs in the order of merit in which each considered his three to stand and when we compared notes it was to discover that no one design had been included in the lists of each judge and that only one had been in the lists of two. The result was that the major ity selection for first prize was adopted and the first choice of the third judge was given second place, all the judges concurring in this decision. “Miss Helen Smith of 334 North Grove was awarded first prize because her de sign seemed most in harmony with the Own your Home thought as applicable to the conditions of Oak Park and River Forest. “Miss Miriam Arey of 510 South Elm wood secured second place with a typical poster design which might have been the work of a professional. Of all the de signs submitted this one had the greatest possibilities for effective reproduction upon the greatly reduced scale which will be necessary for poster purposes, “Miss Marjorie Roth of 319 South Humphrey was given honorable mention. Her design will reproduce well and was artistic, but its advertising value was re duced because the lettering transgressed one of the first laws of advertising “copy.” “Miss Helen Elliott of 514 North Grove submitted an almost perfect de sign which would have reproduced well and made an effective poster. In many respects it is probably the finest drawing submitted and one of which Miss Elliott should be very proud; but it did not ad here to the rules of the competition, which state distinctly that a house or bungalow surrounded by gardens should be depicted. “Tustin Caron and Miss Marion Smith each had effective drawings on exhibi tion, but it was the opinion of the judges that the homes were too pretentious to carry out the idea and ideals of the cam paign. Miss Elizabeth Sly’s design and workmanship were given great consider ation, but the type of lettering used was
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Oak Park Oak Leaves
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 16, 1918
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