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Curtin Prize

Eighty-seven years after his death, students continue to reap the rewards of John A. Curtin. According to the school guidance department’s webpage, Curtin, a Brookline selectman and School Committee member, gave the school money with which to reward students for their writing on “the veils of materialism.”

The prize was originally awarded to a student for writting an essay on a topic proposed by a faculty member during an one hour exam period. The strucure of the prize was changed by Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator Gary Shiffman in 2010 to be awarded to best open ended research paper by class. This change encouraged more students to try, as well as engaging them in the research process. 

Past Winners

Links to past papers
2017
9S Aristotle or Plato 
9H An Age of Trade
10S Child Labor for Popular Chocolates
10H Suffragist 
11S The Dust Bowl
11H The Dust Bowl: American Migrants in the 1930s
11AP Divided We Stand