 The governor of each state and the commissioners of the District of Columbia were to select a high school senior to represent their jurisdiction that August at Edison Laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey.Besides Edison, the judges would be Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, George Eastman, Abrahamn De Mallie, Samuel Stratton, Lewis Perry (the principal of Phillips Exeter Academy), and Charles Lindbergh.Huston's maternal grandfather wrote to his father saying that the contest would be an excellent opportunity.