PUPIL WINS LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Brian Privett of Kennett was winner of a bookmark contest held recently in conjunction with the annual Children's and Young Adults Literature Festival at the University Center at Southeast Missouri State University.

The contest was sponsored by Burger King.

The literature festival attracted more than 1,500 students from area schools in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois, said Vicki Holyfield, festival coordinator.

Guest authors at the two-day event were Ivy Ruckman and Robert Burch. Jerry Warshaw was guest illustrator.

"The event is designed to inspire students to read, to think, to ask questions of the authors," said Holyfield. "Some youngsters may even want to become authors."

Sponsors for the festival included the university's College of Education; Burger King; Southeast Missouri Council on The Arts; Southeast Missouri Council of the International Reading Association; NPS Inc.; Procter and Gamble; Saueressig Co., and M&W Packaging, U.S. Inc.