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Show forensics PHI RHO PI NATIONALS Laboratory courses in national geography, courtship minus marriage, and elementary economics were practiced in a 2800-mile journey from Ogden to Wingate College at Charlotte, North Carolina, as the pyrotechnical finish to a traveloguish year of forensics . . . Betty Lou Balch and Camille Larsen placed second in women's debate, while Marcus Austad won first place in radio speaking. Grant Neuteboom and Mark were in the finals of oratory. June Bramwell and Maurine Duffin won four of their six debates, with three ratings of superior and three of excellent. The teams composed of La Mar Buckner and Robert Bischoff, Maurice Richards and Rex McEntire won two debates and lost four . . . Rex McEntire, Betty Lou Balch, Keith Jacques and Marva Jensen represented the speech department. McEntire and Betty Lou were in the finals of extempore, while Jacques was in the finals of progression. Mr. Monson: Debate Coach Betty Lou Balch: Phi Rho Pi President BARKER EXTEMPORE CONTEST Students who aspire to the trophies awarded those of the golden tongue competed again for placing in Weber's two annual speech events . . . On October 31, freshman and sophomore representatives met to continue the rivalry between the two classes for the Barker award. La Mar Buckner and Walter Cable were freshman representatives, while Betty Lou Balch and Reed Coray spoke in behalf of the sophomores. Coray was declared the winner, speaking on the subject, "We Want Roosevelt." HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT The annual contest sponsored by Weber College for high school debaters and speakers was attended by the greatest number of participants ever to enter this tournament: five hundred and fifty students representing twenty-eight schools. Grant Neuteboom Reed Coray Marva Jensen Rex McEntire ORATORICAL CONTEST Grant Neuteboom was declared the winner of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Oratorical Contest on February 21, when he spoke on the brotherhood of man in relation to Americanism. For winning against the freshman representative, Rex McEntire, Grant's name was engraved on the rotating trophy, and he received a medal awarded by the Junior Chamber. Mark Austad |
