The Lincoln Essay Contest is for Delaware high school students (Grades 9-12), awarding post-secondary scholarships to the essay winners. The Lincoln Club of Delaware is grateful to our Presenting Sponsor, WSFS Bank, for providing the funds for these scholarships. Please see the contest rules for submission guidelines and dates.
Lincoln Club 2024-2025 Essay Contest Rules
The Abraham Lincoln Quote for 2024-2025
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1865
(Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 8, p. 333)
Congratulations to the 2023-2024 Essay Winners
The Lincoln Club of Delaware proudly presented the two winners of the 2023-2024 essay contest with $1000 college scholarships, sponsored by WSFS Bank. The winners and their guests were honored with the essay awards at Lincoln Club’s annual Lincoln Birthday Dinner in February 2024. The winners, in alphabetical order, were Elodie Chevrier, from Cab Calloway School of the Arts; and Vivian Li, from Caesar Rodney High School. Their essays can be found linked below, together with those of previous winners.
Elodie Chevrier, Cab Calloway School of the Arts
Vivian Li, Caesar Rodney High School
Past Winning Essays
Isabela March, Cab Calloway School of the Arts
Emily Matthews, Towle Institute
Maya Levine, Cab Calloway School of the Arts
Ella Trembanis, Middletown High School
Andrew Kallai, Appoquinimink High School
Jesse Roy, Newark Charter High School
Serene Thompkins, Cab Calloway School of the Arts
Molly Erdman, Cab Calloway School of the Arts
Keelin Reilly, Archmere Academy