Article: ESSAY HONORS FOR AN EMIGRE

The Daughters of the American Revolution, bastion of conservative respectability, have chosen a 16-year old Soviet emigre to receive an award for her essay on responsibility under the US Constitution.

A junior at Brookline High School who came to this country with her family in 1980, Olga Itkin saw an announcement for the contest in the school newsletter, went home and tapped out her 979-word essay, using the family computer.

She and nine other winners will be honored later this month at a banquet, with former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger acting as host. Burger is chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution, which co-sponsored the contest.

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