Colleagues: Please take some time to announce this to your Juniors and Seniors. We are extending the deadline of this essay contest until May 29th, 2009. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions (406-243-2988). Thank you for your help with this.
Mansfield Essay Competition
For Montana High School Juniors & Seniors
In a life spanning nearly a century, Mike Mansfield left enduring marks on Montana, the U.S. Senate, and international diplomacy. Born in humble circumstances, Mansfield emerged from the copper mines of Butte to lead the U.S. Senate and serve as America’s envoy to Japan, bridging the administrations of six presidents in the process. However, Mike Mansfield was admired as much for what he stood for as what he achieved, serving as a respected symbol of modesty, personal integrity, ethical behavior, and bipartisanship. He was also respected for his broad cultural vision. His love for the people and cultures of East Asia, in particular, led him to develop expertise on that region that he shared first as a professor of East Asian history at The University of Montana and then as an enlightened force in U.S. policy toward the region during his government service.
Despite his extraordinary contributions, however, Mansfield’s name and deeds are fading from public consciousness in Montana. Through the generosity of two good friends of The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, we hope to remind young people of the Mansfield legacy through a public essay contest for Montana high school students.
The competition: Montana students in grades 11-12 are invited to submit essays focusing either on 1) the important ethical and other personal attributes that Mike Mansfield displayed during his life and distinguished government career, or 2) the significance of Mansfield’s commitment to East Asia. Students must note in each case how Mansfield’s legacy has influenced his or her own life or thinking.
The essay that readers judge to be the most impressive will win an award of $500, with the runner up being awarded $300 and the second runner up $200. You either e-mail your essay to Christopher Marlow at Christopher.marlow@mso.umt.edu or mail it to:
Mansfield Center
Essay Contest
MLIB 4th Floor
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
The essay needs to be 12 fonts, double-spaced and no longer than 10 pages. If e-mailed, please include your contact information. Essays will not be accepted after May 29, 2009. Questions can be e-mailed to the above address or called into (406) 243-2988.
Christopher Marlow
Program Coordinator
Mansfield Center
MLIB 4th Floor
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
P: (406) 243-2988
F: (406) 243-2181
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