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The first volume of The National Amateur Excerpts from accounts 1879 convention NAPA's first permanent constitution 1926 marked the semi-centennial 
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National Amateur Press Association
The First 100 Years: Flashbacks... 
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The 1878 (Chicago) conclave adopted the NAPA's first permanent constitution, creating the laureate awards encouraging literary efforts. Each year the title of laureate was to be awarded to the best author of poems, essays, serials and sketches—the judges being persons of recognized note in the professional field. (Among those serving as judges have Edwin A. Markham, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Burton E. Stevenson, Charlotte Porter, Eugene Field, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Owen Wistar, Zona Gale, Julian Hawthorne, Charles Edward Stowe, Frank H. Converse, Edward W. Bok, Charles King, Horatio Alger, Jr., and Stephen Fiske.) |
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