Hilliker Essay Prizes Awarded to Three Seniors

AWARDS of $100 each from the Charles E. Hilliker Memorial Endowment Fund were won by three seniors for outstanding essays on themes explored in the Great Issues course this past year.

The three winners and their topics are: Edwin A. McCabe of Melrose, Mass., "War and Peace - the Alternatives"; John V. O'Neill of Portsmouth, N. H., "Armies as Instruments of Change in the Arab Middle East"; and Peter M. Slavin of Shaker Heights, Ohio, "The Public Interest in Television Broadcasting." Each senior in the Great Issues course submits an essay of at least 3,500 words as a course requirement.

Award-winning essays are chosen by a Special Awards Committee appointed from faculty members on the Great Issues Steering Committee. Preliminary screening is done by Great Issues instructors.

The substantial and perpetuating endowment fund as a memorial to Charles E. Hilliker '18 was established in 1962 by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Hall Hilliker of Denver, Colo., and by Illinois-California Express, Inc., Denver-based transcontinental motor freight carrier which Mr. Hilliker founded and served as its president until his death in June 1961.

Mr. Hilliker was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Great Divide from 1942 to 1944. He also was active in the civic affairs of Denver and was a director of the Truck Insurance Exchange.