Young Shliach Wins Handwriting Contest
12-year-old Duvy Burston, who along with his parents Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston serves on Shlichus in Orange County, NY, was declared winner of the second annual Campaign for Cursive International Cursive Writing Contest.
From The Photo News:
Duvy Burston is the winner of the second annual Campaign for Cursive International Cursive Writing Contest.
The contest, called “Cursive is Cool,” challenged students to write an essay in cursive, explaining why it is important to continue learning and teaching the skill of writing cursive.
Entrees were judges on both content as well as hand-writing.
Duvy, 12, was encouraged to enter the contest by his teacher, Mrs. Heidi Leonard of Washingtonville, who recognized his interest in learning cursive.
“It was exciting to win a big international contest,” Duvy said. “Now that I know how to write in cursive I use it all the time.”
In his essay Duvy wrote that “with a bit of practice, I mastered the uppercase and lowercase alphabets in a matter of just about a fortnight. I feel confident, and sign formal letters, all while appearing professional because of my mastery of script.”
Duvy is the son of Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston. He attends Cheder Chabad of Monsey and lives in Monroe. , He received an award certificate as well as a beautiful fountain pen as recognition for his achievement.
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Duvy’s Essay:
qkfngers
Such nice news for Duvy and his family.
Hmmm, wonder where our “in-town” boys would have placed. Think they could’ve written a thoughtful, grammatically correct essay in legible cursive? I think we all know the answer.
Oldsafriend
Reb peisach!! Very proud!
Shmink
David
Well done sir!!! Beautiful. I noticed how you don’t let your superscript and subscript strokes clash. Excellent!
Amazing job!
Great job duvi, keep it up.
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Zalmy Schapiro
mazal Tov mazal Tov you should go from strength to strength happiness and successful excellent job job well.