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ATTLEBORO - Bishop Feehan High School junior Vincent Mok of Mansfield and sophomore Erin Murphy of North Easton were best essay winners of Stonehill College's second Annual Social Justice Essay Contest honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The essays - entitled "Walking with Jesus in Confronting Injustice: What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Did and What I Can Do Today" - were chosen from 118 submissions from 15 high schools. Mok and Murphy each received a laptop computer.

The contest, open to public and parochial school students in grades 9 through 11 in the archdiocese of Boston and the diocese of Fall River, is timed to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month. A winner was chosen from each grade level.

The winners read their essays at Stonehill in the Martin Auditorium. The readings coincided with Stonehill alumna Lois Commodore's return to campus to perform songs from her new CD "Hold Me" as part of Black History Month.

In selecting the essay topic, the college combined King's message of social justice with the mission of Stonehill: to educate the whole person so that each graduate thinks, acts, and leads with courage toward the creation of a more just and compassionate world. Honorable mentions were given to Feehan students Molly Clarke of Cumberland, R.I., Sean Coleman of Plainville, Scott Robinson of Attleboro and Christine Manty of North Attleboro.