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What is the Founder's Award?

The Founder's Award is given at the International Convention each year in honor of Jessie Elizabeth Bardens. This is the highest honor for research conferred on Questers by fellow members. Each competition is reviewed to remove all indications of the author's identity and is given a code number before it is sent to the Reading Committee. This committee of anonymous members then begins the task of selecting the winning papers under the direction of the Founder's Award Chairman, who is appointed by the International President and ratified by the Board.

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The 2009 Founder's Award Topic

"For The Love Of Chocolate"

This subject has been chosen for Pennsylvania and should be an exciting one for you Questers. Please join in and write a Founder's Award paper for 2009. Winners will be recognized at the International Convention in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Founder's Award papers are prepared following the same guidelines as study papers. These guidelines are found in the Summer Supplement section of The Quester Quarterly. They are also available from the International Second Vice President, Jeanne Stokebrand, 11 Evanston Drive, Bella Vistas, AR. 72715 and, of course, by clicking "here" on our web site.

The Quester author's name and address, chapter name, and number should appear ONLY on the title page, and the entry MUST be sent to Headquarters postmarked by March 1, 2009 Address to:

Founder's Award Entry
c/o Second Vice President
The Questers
210 South Quince Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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