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  “I always knew I would be an artist of some kind,” says Kayla Whelan, Alumna of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly and winner of the first White House ornament design contest held by the White House Historical Association. “I entered the contest as part of a class… I was a junior at the time, and my school was one of a few that were handpicked for this contest. It was very open-ended: the other students and I were to design an ornament celebrating the presidency of Herbert Hoover, and therefore it needed to capture both the spirit of his presidency and the spirit of Christmas.” This is the first t
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