The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Title from image. Photograph shows a charter for the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 4. Charter reads "Ecce Novum Astrum, Pioneers of Alaska, Reposing confidence in the following named persons, now residents of Fairbanks, Alaska, we do hereby...