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302-7744-3969[[strikethrough]]
              3569
PR-6

[[Du Pont logo]]

E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY
INCORPORATED
WILMINGTON 98, DELAWARE

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

October 18, 1966

Mrs. Elaine M. Kilbourne
5403 - 23rd Place, S.E.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mrs. Kilbourne:

Congratulations on winning the James Bryant Conant Award!

Du Pont, as you know, was sponsor of the six awards recently announced. We would like our employees to share in the sense of pride this sponsorship occasions, and also give them a little better understanding of the company's high respect for the importance of good high school teaching.

For these reasons, Du Pont's employee magazine, BETTER LIVING, would like to do a photographic essay on the Conant Awards, to appear in one of its issues next Spring.

We cannot cover each of the six teachers named in depth, but we would like to take a look at five briefly while giving more extended treatment to one. (For reasons of geography and convenience, we have chosen Mr. Raymond Byrne for the central discussion of the story.)

It is our hope that you will be able to send us, within the next couple of weeks, a professional-quality photograph of yourself. Perhaps you have an enlarged print similar to the one used by "Chemical and Engineering News."

We would also greatly appreciate having from you a three-or-four sentence statement on some aspect of your experience in teaching chemistry: its challenge, its interest, its importance, its rewards. This would be used as caption material.

Your help in preparing this story will be greatly appreciated, and I will be hoping to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,
[signature] David E. Morrison [/signature]

David E. Morrison


DEM:P





Other recipients reflect on careers


Students are lamps to be lighted not cups to be filled... The teacher must inspire with a love of science that will lead to a self-sustained motivation... 
Elaine W. Ledbetter [[photograph]]
Pampa High School
Pampa, Texas


Thankfully, there seems to be no limit to the progress a teacher can make in providing stimulating situations in which students can find meaningful experience and achieve maximum learning...
Harry C. Taylor [[photograph]]
North Fulton High School
Atlanta, Georgia


Among the things that have made teaching of chemistry an inspiration have been the intrinsic challenge of the subject matter, and the enthusiasm of the students-above all, witnessing their later successes in life...
Elaine M. Kilbourne [[photograph]]
Anacostia High School
Washington, D.C.


The principles and techniques a student learns in chemistry also help to develop an attitude of "going-on-wardness" regardless of the vocation he may later choose...
H. E. Alexander [[photograph]]
Las Cruces High School
Las Cruces, New Mexico


The great challenge is to assist young people to attain an honest self-realization about themselves...a useful understanding of their personal capabilities and potentials...
Theodore E. Molitor [[photograph]]
Alexander Ramsey High School
St. Paul, Minnesota