EHFOP honors students for the 2020 Hemingway Foundation OPRF Scholarship & Allan O. Baldwin Memorial Scholarship Contests

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is pleased to announce the overall recipient and two finalists for the essay competitions for Hemingway Foundation OPRF Scholarship and the first recipient of the Allan O. Baldwin Memorial Scholarship.

In 2016, the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, with the help of the OPRFHS English Department and the OPRFHS Scholarship Fund, re-introduced the Hemingway Foundation Scholarship for junior level students, with the intent of discovering and fostering writing talent at Hemingway’s alma mater.  The overall winner receives a $1,000 college scholarship award and a mentorship with the Foundation’s writer-in-residence during their senior year at Oak Park-River Forest High School.

We are pleased to name Allen White as the recipient of the 2020 Hemingway Foundation Scholarship for his excellence in writing with his submission of “What Home Means to Me: A Diet Chicago”. We would like to also recognize Jackson Tanner and Eleanor Sigel as our two scholarship finalists.

This year we introduced a second scholarship for senior students in memory of our former chairman; the Allan O. Baldwin Memorial Scholarship includes a $1,000 college scholarship award and publication of the winning essay within our literary journal, Hemingway Shorts. We are delighted to announce Ella Haas as its first recipient for her outstanding work, “Green Lines of Our Lives”.

Each of these students’ essays will be included in our fifth annual edition of Hemingway Shorts and we will recognize these four students at a forthcoming Hemingway Foundation event.

These scholarship initiatives reflect the Foundation’s belief in the importance of the written word and the value of thoughtful reading and writing.