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Young Pegasus Poetry Competition

San Antonio's annual poetry contest for children and teens.

Congratulations Young Pegasus Poets (Alphatbetical Order by Last Name)

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1930 Selected Poets!

Judges: Blake Martin, W.H. Young, Margaret Ogle


A

Mary Catherine Armstrong, 9
"The Maypole"
"Down by the Water"

Bill Aven, 5
"Lullaby"


B

Glenn Beauchamp, 17
"The Isle of Ghosts"


C

Nan Cochburn, 15
"Dream Keeper"


D

Angilee Davis, 6
"Down Beside the River"
"Spanish Poem"

Charles Dickson, 5
"In the Fall"


E

John Ellis, 16
"Rain"
"A Mother"


F

Hulda Marie Fairbanks, 10
"The Zig-Zag Way"


G

Loma Graham, 16
"The Sea Shell"


H

Donald Harris, 3
"Swing Swing"

Helen Harris, 7
"Play"

A.R. Howard, 5
"First I Should See"


J

Elizabeth Jacobs, 16
"A Fool"


K

Audrey Kaye, 5
"The Golden Leaves"


L

Barton Lane, 13
"The Kitten's School"

Gus Levy, 15
"Hours"

Chester Lorillard, 16
"The Ditch Digger"


M

Fern Ann MacManus, 6
"Down in Mexico"

Betty Munn, 14
"Water Lily"

Joe Musgrave, 15
"Distinction"


O

Virginia Oeding, 10
"A Rainy Day"


R

Morris Roark, 17
"The Requiem"


S

Bernard Shaenfield, 6
"Our Walk"

Edward Syers, 15
 "Over the Top"


W

Leloise Waldo, 6
"In the River"

Ella Watts, 19
"Heritage"
"Things I Need"

Catherine E. Whitmar, 16
"Sons of the Dusk"
"Portrait of a Boy"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1931 Selected Poets!

Judges: W.H. Young, R.E. Roehl, Ruth Kelso Clarkson, Josephin Niggli, Blake Martin


A

Mary Abdo, 16
"A Lent Poem"


B

Anne Beasley, 17
"Tranquility"

Albert Beitel, 16
"L'Allegro"

Roslyne Browne, 8
"Red Roses"


C

John William Cary, 16
"The Monster"

John Cragin, 13
"Little Things"


F

Ellis Laurence Fairbanks, 8
"My Parrot"

Hulda Marie Fairbanks, 12
"I Love the Wind"

John Ford, 15
"The Rose"


G

Margaret Frances Garret, 12
"The Song of the Wind"
"The Death of the Flowers"

Margaret Alice Gleiser, 9
"The Organ Grinder"


H

Adair Hamilton, 16
"Music's Spell"

Bob Harris, 5 1/2
"Untitled - Springtime, Springtime, Spring"

Helen Harris, 9
"At the Waterfall"

Craig Hill, 3 1/2
"Untitled - In some trees"


L

Maria Lee, 17
"A Lucky Accident"


M

 

Margaret McKenna, 15
"The River"

Estela Montemayor, 17
"Song of a Gypsy"


R

Billy Rips, 8
"At the Zoo"

Carrie Wallien Rucker, 5
"Untitled - Here we sit"


S

Lucille Scott, 16
"Afterglow"


T

Josephine Tinnerell, 13
"Lady Isabel"


W

Mary Frances Walker, 12
"Someone I Love"

Adelaide Weber, 14
"Rock Flox"

Phyllis Wegner, 16
"Christmas"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1932 Selected Poets!

Judges: Merrill Bishop, Mrs. Hallie Day, Blake Martin, Josephine Niggli, Harold Young


A

Molly Hart Allensworth, 4
"Fairies"

Eleanor Apple, 14
"Storm"


C

Nedra Chapmen, 17
"Stones"


D

Charles Dickson, 10
"The Dragon Faced Pansy"

Frank Dickson, 6
"Trees by the Riverside"


E

Robert Ennis, 5
"Flying Birds"


F

Hulda Marie Fairbanks, 12
"A Gypsy's Plea"


G

Rosalie Gurgiolo, 16
"Tatters of Spring"


H

Dorothy Haggard, 14
"The Wind"

Donald Harris, 5
"River Runs Along"

Mabel Hauffle, 16
"Tombstones"
"Reverence"


I

Colleen Ingram, 7
"Indian Lullaby"


K

William Kendra, 18
"Peace Treaties"


P

Donna Mae Perry, 17
"Cinquain"


R

Alice Romo, 15
"Lament"


V

Richard Valentine, 18
"The Shore at Night"


W

Catherine E. Whitmar, 18
"A Sonnet"
"To Adolescent Youth"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1933 Selected Poets!

Judges: Mrs. Wallace Carnahan, Harold Young, Josephine Niggli, Blake Martin, R.P. Hickey


B

Louise Polk Bishop, 10
"My Train"

Helen Morton Brown, 15
"Yearning"

Roger Busfield, 7
"Shining Gold"


D

John Davies, 15
"Koshur Moham"

Annie Lee Downham, 11
"I Wonder"
"Can It Be So?"


E

Alfred Englehart, 15
"The Call of the Sea"


F

Hulda Marie Fairbanks, 13
"The Wolf Song"


H

Jessie M. Hall, 9
"The Cross on the Moon"

Betty Hasbrook, 18
"Summer Song"

Billy Holden, 6
"A Garden"


J

Mona Kate Jarvis, 4
"The Grandfather Clock"

Jean Judson, 17
"Sonnet to a Mother"


P

Betty Phillips, 17
"Change" 
"Sonnet"
"Sonnet"


R

Robert Rettger, 4
"Bugs"


S

Evajean Smith, 10
"I'd Like to be a Little Star"

Hugh Smith, 17
"The Nueces River"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1934 Selected Poets!

Judges: Dr. Janie F. Baskin, Harold Young, Catherine Whitmar, Blake Martin


A

Atwood Amber, 6
"Chicks"


B

Peggy Jean Banfield, 8
"The Raindrops"

Julia Bates, 11
"The Writing Lesson"


E

Thelma Eaton, 12
"To My Valentine"

Vivienne Elliott, 18
"The Sparrow"

Robert Ennis, 6
"Zeus"


F

Marie Fairbanks, 14
"Moon Rise"

Elizabeth Fite, 8
"The Fairy"


H

Charles Hurley, 18
"Five Years Old"


L

Mary Ann Lewis, 6
"My Kite"


N

Lee Norrell, 17
"I Shall Plant Grass"


P

Betty Phillips, 17
"Shutting Up Shop"
"The Meeting"


R

Edith Roberts, 11
"The Bears"


S

Valree Shrum, 9
"Rain in the City"

Helen Stein, 12
"Poo Lorn--The Elephant"


V

Curtis Vaughan, 6
"Beans"


W

Thelma Wooten, 11
"Little Robin"


Z

Julia Zapata, 16
"Impiety"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1935 Selected Poets!

Judges: Janie F. Baskin, Blake Martin, Catherine Whitmar, Harold Young


B

Margaret Houston Bush, 11
"Cherokee Lullaby"


C

Billy Doyle Cockrell, 12
"Blue"
"I Wish--"

Marjorie Crawford, 17
"Little Houses"


G

Joe Gilliam, 5
"Flowers"


H

Margery Ann Hayes, 9
"The Enchanted Island"

Rowell Haynes, 17
"Discontented


J

Forrest Jones, 18
"Ad Mortem Hoc Mitto"


P

Lenore Parson, 14
"Supplication"


S

Lupe Salazar, 17
"Gringo!"


T

Thomas Dale Tapp, 8
"The Lonely Cow"


W

Elizabeth Carrison Waite, 9
"Contentment"

Dorothy Belle Whipple, 16
"Dusk"

Raymond White, 16
"In the Shadow of the Alamo"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1936 Selected Poets!

Judges: Dr. Janie Baskin, Catherine Whitmar, Blake Martin


C

George Cole, 5
"The Stickery Tree"


D

John Dunham, 11
"The Fountain"


E

Wing Evans, 2
"Kite and the Moon"


H

Howard Hiff, 9
"Heaven"

Crystal Hurley, 14
"Cathedral Bell"
"Where Winds Are Made"
"Blood Moon"


N

Lee Norrell, 18
"Parting"


S

Lupe Salazar, 18
"Tejana"

Jack Skaggs, 10
"The Forest"

Dorothy Vernon Smith, 9
"The Iris"

Margaret Suhre, 10
"Children in Many Lands"


W

Betty Waite, 10
"The Jealous Sea"

Raymond White, 17
"Las Manos"

Dorothy Belle Wipple, 17
"Recompense"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1937 Selected Poets!

Judges: Blake Martin, Amy Novich Freeman, Dr. Janie F. Baskin


A

Rual Askew Jr., 16
"Landscape"

Rual Askew Jr., 16
"In Memoriam"


H

Katherine Halsey, 6
"The Sweet Sue Bird"

Crystal Hurley, 15
"The Swan"
"On Leaving Childhood"


M

Mary Stuart McDonald, 5
"Earth and Sky"

Botsy McKinney, 6
"Autumn Leaves"


N

Linda Nixon, 5
"The Water"


P

Sky Phillips, 15
"Some Things I Love"


R

Billy Rips, 13
"A Toast to You, America!"


W

Dorothy Belle Whipple, 18
"Song for Scorpio"

Raymond White, 18
"Study in Silence"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1938 Selected Poets!

Judges: Blake Martin, Janet Lowrey, Milton Ling


A

Gloria Amberson, 16
"The Inevitable"


B

Mary Louise Barrego, 11
"The End of the Day"

Mignon Boegere, 17
"The Empty Stage"

Sarah Jane Brewer, 9
"The Wind"


P

Sky Phillips, 16
"Prayer"
"Mother-Thought"
"Bellerophon"


R

Alice Charlotte Rilling, 11
"The Housewife"

Billy Rips, 15
"Rondel: to Poetry"
"Last Voyage"

Frank Rosengren, 11
"The Fall of Cartonells"

Joy Rush, 9
"Fireflies"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1939 Selected Poets!

Judges: Janette Sebring Lowrey, Blake Martin, Josephine Niggli, Milton Ling


A

Patricia Allen, 8
"On the Desert"


C

Douglas G. Cater, 7
"Weather"


M

Colleen McCalla, 11
"The Queen of the Deep"


O

Dorothy Ott, 12
"The Blue-Bird"


R

Alice Charlotte Riling, 13
"Fiesta" 
"A German Pioneer's Love Song"
"The Storm and the Sailor"

Billy Rips, 16
"Sonnet"


S

Frances Scott, 8
"Arabian Lads"

Gerald Benno Sens, 9
"The Sea"


W

Shirley Wantland, 11
"The Fairy Queen"