Arkansas State press (Little Rock, Ark.), February 7, 1958
AWARD TO PSC FRESHMAN
Thomas E. Quaynor, a Philander Smith college freshman from Ghana, East Africa, was recently awarded a $50.00 United States Savings Bond as second place winner in a nationwide essay contest sponsored by the Thomas Paine Foundation.
The subject of Quaynor’s winning essay was “Did Thomas Paine Author the Declaration of Independence”?
Quaynor, 20, who is majoring in Political Science, plans to remain in the United States until he receives his doctor’s degree, and then return to Ghana to become a politician bent on making his nation a better place in which to live.
The recent essay contest was the seventh annual contest sponsored by the Thomas Paine Foundation.