Escape to listen to creative works at the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award Ceremony March 28

Escape for a moment while you listen to the clever written works of our talented student finalists during the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award Ceremony Thursday, March 28, at 5 p.m. in the Mayfair Hall Conference Room. 

Whether you listen to a poem, short story or one-act play, you're in for a treat.

This award is named after first-generation college student Margaret Harvin Wilson, ’34, who waited tables in exchange for discounted tuition and a free dormitory at Georgia College & State University. As a senior, her teacher encouraged Wilson to enter a short story contest in the English Department. Winning first prize in 1933 for “Sympathy Speaks” gave her great confidence for her subsequent career as a teacher.

Margaret married Leland Wilson in 1938. They had three successful daughters with careers in law, medicine and higher education, with the latter, Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, retiring after serving for 12 years as president of the University of Michigan. In January 2010, Mary Sue and her husband Kenneth established the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award in memory of her mother.