2003 Contest Winners:

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
                Lily Angle, District 5, Wichita, Yearbook Editor

Service Awards :
                Roxie Olmstead, District 5, Augusta, Financial Secretary
                Marvin Wambsganss, District 6, Hutchinson, Treasurer

J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award:
                Tom Mach , District 2, Lawrence,for his historical novel Sissy!

Nelson Poetry Book Award:
                Ruth Stunz, District 5, Wichita, for Contrails in the Wind

Furguson History Book Award was not awarded this year. The one book
entered will be eligible for next year's contest.

Write About a Kansas Author Contest Winners:
First Place:
Robert D. Carey, District 1, Topeka, for “Kansas Icon–William Allen White”
Second Place:
Leona Dillard, District 6, Hutchinson, for “Blanche M. Irving: Kansas Authors Club’s
Twenty-Eighth President”
Third Place:
Annette Wood, District 5, Wichita, for “Ray Nelson, the Poet”
Honorable Mention:
Duane Herrmann, District 1, Topeka, for “Dr. David S. Ruhe, Kansas Author”
Honorable Mention:
Doris Schroeder, District 6, Hutchinson, for “Stepping Stones to Writing for Kansas
Author Esther Loewen Vogt”
Distinguished Mention:
Beth Lagaron, Lawrence, for “‘Colorless Words’: The Dark Truth in Junky” (William S.
Burroughs)
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Judge: Steven Hind, Hutchinson, poet whose three books of poetry, A Place With
No Map, That Trick of Silence, and Familiar Ground, intimately describe life in the
Flint Hills where he grew up. Hind has recently retired from teaching literature and writing
at Hutchinson County Community College.