Bar Foundation Names Essay Contest Winners Three students were recently presented awards by Supreme Court Justice Christine Vertefeuille in the Connecticut Bar Foundation’s 16th annual Quintin Johnstone Statewide High School Essay Contest.

Seamus Connor, a home-schooled senior, was awarded the statewide prize, with runner-up prizes awarded to Daniel Coppinger, a junior at Simsbury High School, and Katarina Flicker, a senior at Greens Farms Academy.