Party.”

In 2010, The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Grade 11 Prize was awarded to Silja Lehtinen in 2010, for her essay, “A Reading of John Ashberry's The Painter.”

In 2009, The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir 11th Grade Prize was presented to Wilfried Genest whose paper adumbrated on the importance of thinking, rather than simply accepting, a theme reflected in the ISL's mission, Clark University's challenge to create a better world, and Mr. Leir's motto, "aut viam inveniam aut faciam": either I'll find a way or I'll make one.

In 2008,The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir 11th Grade Prize was awarded to Ethan Schrieberg for his essay entitled "The Use of the Color Green in The Great Gatsby".

In 2007,The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir 11th GradePrizewas awarded to Wesley McMinimy for his essay entitled "Myrtle Wilson in Relation to the Valley of Ashes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby."

In 2006,The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir 11th Grade Prizewas awarded to Priyanka Verma, for her essay, "Commentary on the First Paragraph of Germinal."

Maxime Rischard received the first annual prize in the summer of 2005 for his essay on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir High School Speaker

Mr. Ed Bindel, who survived the Holocaust as a child, delivered a talk to the University Park Campus School and the Claremont Academy, entitled, “A Personal Account of Surviving the Holocaust in Middle Europe.”

In addition, the LLP-CU has supported conversations between Clark’s Education Chair, Tom