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expand our knowledge, this talisman of the Wakefield student body is our device of power with which we express ourselves. For the writer or artist ‘Talisman’ is a source of protection, offering a safe outlet for feelings he or she otherwise could not convey. ”
Having set forth this statement of purpose, the “Talisman” staff published 11 short stories, nine entries in the “essays, drama and criticism” category, 28 short pieces and poems from the lower school, proverbs and a full assortment of illustrations from Wakefield’s art students.
Given special recognition in the volume were those award winning stories judged by the editors themselves to be the best efforts of their peers.
In the short stories Larry Doherty took first place with “The Beach”, a saga of the wind and the waves, the sun, the sand and the girls. The other winning entries were “The Lion Problem” by Josephine Hood in second place, “The Clown” by Susannah McClellan in third and an honorable mention to “Coffin Built for Two” by Kim Johnson.
Rebecca McWhorter’s “The Death of the Traditional Family” took first place among the critical writing category.
“When confronted with the long list of problems the world is faced with today, such as poverty, possibility of nuclear war, drug abuse, and others, one might think the disappearance of the traditional family is a less than monumental problem,” thesenior started her essay.
However, McWhorter presented the case that the decline and fall of the “American Way” as caused by the rise of television, drugs and the “me-first” era ■ starts a cycle of new generations of families “who are doomed to failure, and the cycle repeats itself yet again.”
Placing in this mixed prose category were Donna Funk for “The Impossibility of the Impossible” in second, Ophelia Von Ludwig for “Trump” in third and honorable mention to Scott Reid for his literary criticism “Balzac’s ‘Passion in the Desert.’ ”
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