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Image of a girl writing on a book saying THE BETTY G HEADLY SENIOR ESSAY AWARD
Past Winners
2022

BEST COURSE ESSAY
Madeline Medensky
Visionary Imagination Seeing Beyond in Gilead

 

 

BEST PERSONAL ESSAY
Scout Ruppe
Jumping with Both Feet: Reclaiming My Identity in a Disabled Community

2021

COURSE RELATED ESSAY

 

FIRST PLACE

Gillian Adrianne Wagenaar

The Coxswain’s Widow: Charity, Wisdom, and the Working Class in the Life and Death of James Maynard

 

 

PERSONAL ESSAY

 

FIRST PLACE - TIE

 

Valerie Josic 

 Better a Cracked Voice

 

Yasmina Mashmoushi 
The Path Less Travelled: A Personal Essay

 

2019
COURSE RELATED ESSAYS

 


FIRST PLACE

Tristan Mills
The Incantations of The Apple Trees at Olema

 


HONOURABLE MENTIONS


Jude Blasutti
Reading Rape in The Canterbury Tales

 

Mila Sevo
Jane Kenyon's  Poetics and the Anna Akhmatova Translations:
A Dialogical Relationship

 

Julianna Suderman
Human Reality Uncovered in the Alien:
Heptapod Language in Story of Your Life and Arrival

 

 


PERSONAL ESSAYS

 

FIRST PLACE

Vinny Neang
 

 


HONOURABLE MENTION

Brianna D'Alessandro
 

 

2018
   
JOINT FIRST PLACE WINNERS
Selin Elyay
Heather Lambert
 
 
 
JOINT HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Kayley Marner
Oriana Confente
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

2009
FIRST PLACE
Nicholas Herring

The Savage Faculty

 

2006
FIRST PLACE
Denis Clark

Writing to Survive? The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in English Canadian Historiography

2005
FIRST PLACE
David Zettel

The Moral Virtues as Prerequisites for the Philosophical Life in Plato's Gorgias

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