Bio: Wendt, Carol (Greenwood H.S. Betty Crocker Award – 1958)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Wendt

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 06 Mar 1958

The Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow in Greenwood High School is carol Wendt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wendt.

She received the highest score in a written examination on homemaking knowledge and attitudes, administered December 3, 1957, to senior girls in the graduating class. Her examination paper will be entered in competition to name this state's candidate for the title of All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow, and will also be considered for the runner-up award in the state. For her achievement, she will received an award designed by Trifari of New York

The national winner in the fourth annual Betty Crocker Search conducted among 327,000 young women in 11,800 of the nation's public, private and parochial high school, will be named April 17 at a banquet in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

General Mills is sponsor of the program designed to assist school in education for home and family living. This year's huge entry brings the four year participation over the million mark. A total of 1,071,000 girls have enrolled in this national homemaking project since it wwas launched in 1955. A total of $106,000 in scholarships will be awarded this year.

Each State Betty Crocker homemaker of Tomorrow will receive a $1,500 scholarship and an educational trip with her school advisor to Washington, D.C., colonial Williamsburg, Va., and New York City. A $500 scholarship will be awarded the second ranking girl in each state. The school of the state winner will receive a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The scholarship of the young woman named All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow will be increased to $5,000. Girls who rank second, third and fourth in the nation will receive $4,000, $3,000, $2,000 scholarships. respectively.