Gray and Coterie Awards Presented

The Coterie Award for 1995 was presented to Ashley Lynn Metcalf of Long Beach, Mississippi, for her paper "Peppertown Pottery." This award is given annually by the Oxford Coterie Club for an outstanding research paper submitted the previous year. The award, which carries a $200 prize, was established to encourage student scholarship and to support research on Southern culture.

Weston M. Price of Hilton Head, South Carolina, received the 1995 Gray Award, given for the outstanding research paper on Southern topics submitted the previous academic year at the University. Price's paper was titled "The Beauty of Truth: An Original Textual Analysis of James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Price received, as his prize, a check for $200.

The Gray Award was established by Colonel and Mrs. Homer Gray Jr. of Oxford. Students selected for the award must produce a paper that displays the ability to collect evidence about the Southern experience and to evaluate that evidence and reach a documented conclusion.

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