Dennis Holloway, An Architect in Northern New Mexico

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In 1957 it was...
"Neutronia" --The City of the Future!!!

A Kid from Durand, Michigan,
Decides to Become an Architect...

Photograph: Owosso Argus Press

Durand, Owosso Exhibitors Win,
Competition Spirited at Youth Show
3-Exhibition Opens Today at Emerson School

(Excerpted from the headline story, Owosso Argus Press, Owosso, Michigan, April 12, 1957)

An Owosso girl who has a fine eye when it comes to sewing with precision and a Durand boy who definitely has his eye on the future have been named grand prize winners in the local Youth Talent Exhibition.

They are Marilyn Jennings, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Otho Jennings, and Dennis Holloway son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holloway. Both winners are 14-year-old eighth graders.

Their grand prize witll be a chaperoned, expense-paid three-day visit to Washington, D.C. Youth Talent Exhibit is co-sponsored by schools in this area and the Owosso Argus Press, with that newspaper donating the prizes.

...It took a great deal of imagination on Dennis' part to come up with his "Neutronia" or city of the future. That plus such assorted items as a plastic bowl, a ball, cardboard, wood and weeds. When he was through, the 13 square foot city included a civic rotunda, school, research center, shopping center, atomic heat and power plant, office building, rocket departure terminal, "normal" homes, an expressway and a church.

While the youthful artist spent six months making his city he spent some two years thinking it over. It takes that kind of planning whien you want to become and architectural engineer. Dennis is also handy with a paint brush. He took second and third prizes at the exhibit with his water colors and last year had a first with a painting and a second place with an insect collection.....

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