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Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest Winner Announced TM Volume 13, Number 1, January 2007 Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest Winner Announced Impact is pleased to announce that the winner of to read Ayn Rand’s novels and think about the Shrugged 50th anniversary, ARI hopes to expand the 2006 Atlas Shrugged essay contest is themes expressed in those books. the Atlas Shrugged essay contest. Subject to avail- Ann Pedtke from Gambier, Ohio. The contests have been effective in that able funding, we plan to: Miss Pedtke is a regard. Said Miss Pedtke, “I read Atlas Shrugged double major in English while I was volunteering in New Orleans over • Promote this expanded contest to every English and classics at Kenyon the summer, and paired with that experience it and language-arts teacher in every high school College, and plans to provided a whole new perspective for me. I had in North America. work in book or maga- read only Anthem before Atlas Shrugged, but The • Create a fund to award special prizes to top zine publishing. “I found Fountainhead and some of Ayn Rand’s earlier essays submitted by high school seniors in the the details of the contest works are definitely on my to-read list now.” contest. through a search engine In addition to Miss Pedtke, forty-eight other • Provide support for high school teachers with for college scholarships,” students won cash prizes, ranging from $50 to questions about the contest—as well as fund- Anne Pedtke she recently told Impact, $1,000. The prize for first place was $5,000. ing for the additional contest administration “but the name of the competition was familiar to Four of the Atlas Shrugged essay contest win- and judging. me from various other scholarship and writing ners are currently enrolled in the Objectivist Aca- • Expand our current Web site to promote the contest sources I had searched. As far as essay demic Center (OAC), the Institute’s academic pro- expansion of the Atlas Shrugged essay contest contests go, I think that ARI has done a fantastic gram, which offers students a systematic program to include high school seniors. job of getting the information out there.” of instruction in the essentials of Objectivism and • Increase the number and total value of the prizes Miss Pedtke’s essay addressed the question, in the nature of objective thought and communica- awarded for the entire contest, and intensify our “At his trial, Hank Rearden declares: ‘The public tion. OAC student Laura Mazer, a medical student promotional efforts. good be damned, I will have no part of it!’ What at Emory University in Atlanta, told Impact, “The does he mean? How does this issue relate to the themes in Atlas Shrugged are incredibly power- These contests are a powerful means of rest of the novel and its meaning?” Her essay ful, and the essay contest gave me an opportunity furthering interest in Ayn Rand and inspiring was chosen out of 1,318 entries from full-time to articulate them for myself. Rereading the novel participants to think about the ideas presented college students and college-bound high school with the essay topic in mind definitely helped in her novels. “I gained a more intimate knowl- seniors (the second largest number of entries in the me to integrate the plot events in a new way, and edge of an amazing novel and life perspective,” contest’s history); Dr. Andrew Bernstein made the expanded my understanding of the book.” While Miss Pedtke said. “I hope that ARI will continue final selection. she was not enrolled in the OAC at the time she to offer this opportunity to high school and col- ARI sponsors essay contests for three of wrote the essay, Miss Mazer said, “I am learning a lege students alike for many years.” Ayn Rand’s novels: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountain- lot in my OAC course and I look forward to doing For more information on ARI’s essay head and Anthem. The purpose of these contests even better in future essays as a result.” contests, please visit our Web site at is to encourage high school and college students This year, in conjunction with the Atlas www.aynrand.org/contests. Objectivist Summer Conference 2007 Preview: Celebrating Atlas Shrugged As part of the Atlas Shrugged 50th its theme, and shows how the novel’s central plot shortly after the publication of The Fountainhead anniversary celebration, several premise functions as a veritable engine of abstract (but later set aside). The lecture assumes familiar- of the talks at Objectivist Summer and concrete originality. ity with The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged but Conference 2007 will have a theme presupposes no further background. related to the novel. Ayn Rand’s Ethics: From The Fountainhead to Atlas Shrugged The Creation of Ayn Rand’s The Originality of Atlas Shrugged by Darryl Wright Ultimate Ideal Man: Who Was by Tore Boeckmann Ayn Rand originally envisioned Atlas John Galt? The theme of Atlas Shrugged is “the role of the mind Shrugged as a socio-political novel that by Shoshana Milgram in man’s existence,” and the demonstration of a new would build on the ethical ideas of The After writing Atlas Shrugged, morality of rational self-interest. The plot features Fountainhead. But as she worked on Ayn Rand said that she could never the men of the mind going on strike against an altru- Atlas, she developed and revised her hope to create a hero greater than ist-collectivist society. ethical thought in unexpected ways. John Galt—and she did not try to do In regard to both abstract message and concrete This lecture explores how, and why, so. Why did she see Galt as the ful- story, Atlas Shrugged is stunningly innovative—bear- her ideas changed—as well as what fillment of a lifelong ambition? Why ing out Ayn Rand’s statement that “creating a new, did not change. Topics include life as did she say that Galt was the “best original abstraction and translating it through new, an ultimate value; the relation between representative” of the Objectivist original means” is “my kind of fiction writing.” life and happiness; the relation between ethics? What was her answer to the In this lecture, Tore Boeckmann tests the origi- spiritual and material values; the impor- question: Who is John Galt? nality of Atlas Shrugged by comparing the charac- tance of asking why morality is needed; the idea This lecture describes the creation of John ter of Francisco d’Anconia, and the event of the that morality presupposes a basic choice to live; Galt from Ayn Rand’s earliest thoughts about the tunnel disaster, with very similar concretes from and the question of whether rationality or indepen- character, through her preparatory notes and the the plays of Friedrich Schiller (specifically, Fiesco dence is the primary moral virtue. Special attention edited drafts of the manuscript, to the final text and Mary Stuart). The comparison highlights non- will go to the pivotal role of The Moral Basis of of the novel. Topics include key elements of the obvious ways in which Atlas Shrugged concretizes Individualism, the nonfiction work Rand began continued on page 4 Conference Exhibits Promote ARI’s Programs The Origins of ach year ARI participates in conferences he had ever done—and that it was our programs Atlas Shrugged Ethat enable us to promote our programs to which made that possible.” Final reading in “Stand and Think” teachers and college professors. These confer- This was the fifth consecutive year the Insti- series discusses the history of ences also give us a unique opportunity to meet tute participated in the conference. “Every year Ayn Rand’s masterpiece face to face with the teachers who benefit from we find that more and more teachers are aware our programs. of our programs,” Mr. Ludin said. “This year we In November ARI attended the National Coun- had more teachers visit the booth and sign up on cil of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference in our mailing list than ever before.” Nashville. Most of In late Decem- the attendees were ber ARI also had English teachers, an exhibit at the ranging from the Modern Language preschool to the high Association (MLA) school level. The conference in Phila- standing room only crowd joined ARI archi- Institute’s primary delphia and at the Avist Jeff Britting for a talk on Atlas Shrugged goal was to promote American Philo- at the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood the Ayn Rand essay sophical Associa- Regional Library on December 9. It was the third contests and the Free tion (APA) Eastern and final installment of “Stand and Think: Read- Books to Teachers Division conference ings from the Unpublished Ayn Rand,” which is project. The exhibit in Washington, D.C. part of a series of events surrounding the library’s included promotional The MLA confer- “Ayn Rand in Hollywood” exhibit. flyers, teacher guides ence, unlike the The exhibit is made possible by the Ayn Rand and lesson plans for NCTE conference, Archives, the source of the exhibit material. Ayn Rand’s novels, was aimed largely at Mr. Britting’s talk began with a discussion of the as well as free review Matt Ludin, education programs specialist, at ARI’s exhibit at the NCTE conference college-level profes- archives and its function. “The main purpose of copies of her books. sors, and ARI focused the archives,” Mr. Britting told the audience, “is to “It was a great experience for us,” said ARI’s on promoting Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfic- document Ayn Rand’s activities during her lifetime education programs specialist, Matt Ludin, who was tion, scholarship based on Ayn Rand as well as by preserving the physical evidence of her life and present at the conference.
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