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Coast Episcopal Schools and Pepsi Cola of Gulfport sponsored the fourth annual ?Children in the Arts? Contest. Theme was ?People make the World Go Around,? and the contest was open to students in grades four through eight in all public, parochial and private schools along the Gulf Coast.
Thirty-four schools participated. Each school selected three winners from their students and submitted the win-
ning work for judging.
The judge for this year?s contest was William Baggett, professor of art at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Baggett selected one grand prize winner from each class and awarded honorable mention to other work he felt was exceptional.
Selected as grand prize winners were Brittany Rester, fourth grade, Bayou View
Elementary; Madelyn Boudreaux, fifth grade, Diamond-head Academy; Rhett Magnon, sixth grade, Bay Middle School; Devin Driscoll, seventh grade, Bay Junior High; and Candace Balius, eighth grade, Nicholas Middle School.
Receiving honorable mention were fourth grade students Jen- / nifer Goff, St. Thomas Catholic; I Holly Massey, DeLisle Elemen- J tary; Beth Ragland, Bayou ? View Elementary; Justin Wads-1
Coast art winners
Grand prize winners in the Children in the Arts Contest are, from left, Kevin Driscoll, seventh i Bay Junior High; Rhett Magnon, sixth grade, Bay Middle; Brittany Rester, fourth grade, Bayoi^ _ and Madelyn Boudreaux, fifth grade, Diamondhead Academy. Not pictured is Candace Balius, ? grade, Nichols Middle.	r	j