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Helen Burroughs, 1923

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Helen Burroughs, 1923

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Lowell High School's Most Beautiful Girl

    BEAUTY CONTEST

December 22d was a big day for the Seniors. As it was the last day of school before Christmas vacation the class decided to give a dinner at noon and to run a beauty contest all through the day. The rules of this contest were to be as follows:

    (1) Votes may be cast for any girl in the High School.

    (2) One cent is to be paid for each vote.

    (3) The contest was to close at the ringing of the fire gong in the lower hall some time after 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

    (4) Winner to have a full page picture in Annual and a five-pound box of candy.

The results of the contest were as follows:

      Miss Helen Burroughs.......................2300 votes
      Miss Margaret Osgood.....................2100 votes
      Miss Nelda Wood............................1035 votes

There were other candidates that had smaller number of votes and need not be mentioned here.

The contest was a sure thriller and was not won until the gong rang. Helen Burroughs, the dark horse all through the contest, stepped out at the last and won with a lead of two hundred votes.

Miss Burroughs has her full page picture on page 71 of this Annual as Lowell High's Beauty.

From the 1923 Lowell High School yearbook.
Last updated on June 20, 2003.

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