Sewickley High School - Sewickley Yearbook (Herminie, PA)

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T Q Chapel Debates During the year a number of debates were held in the auditorium lduringr ehapel periodl. Needless to say. all were extremely interesting and. if one were attentive enougrh. very instruetive. The debates were in eharge of Nliss Crouse. whose ability to produee debaters of worth is uudoubted. The question for 2ll'gl'll!l10l1l' in the first eontest of wits was stated as follows: Resolved that strikes should be prohibited. Elizabeth Bleldarland and Max Dean supported the affirmative. They found worthy opponents in -lean llay and Russell Neale. who in upholding the negative won the debate. About the middle of the sehool year. Elizabeth McFarland and t'harlotte Lyons locked horns with liuey llods and llelen lleaumont. After a hotly eontested battle the elose decision was awarded the former pair of grladiators. The question eoneerned the intluenee of heredity and environment in the mould- ing of eharaeter. This siege of the fair ones was followed by a valuable quartet. The abolition of eapital puuishuient in l'ennsylvania eonstituterl the gist of the subject. lloward Wierbaeh and -Iaines Wolfe endeavored with inigrht and main to over- whelm the opposition. whieh. eonsisting' of Fred lienzenhofer and .Iohn Kinds- vatter, was very strong. The latter were the vietors and it may be said to the eredit of the defeated that they swallowed the pill with a smile. There is nothing: like good sportsmanship. The last debate was held in the latter part of May and the results game foo late to print in this issue. The speakers were Robert lieeker and William McPherson as eolleagues, while Jeanette liradford and Irwin Sehuette formed the opposition. The question eoueerued Pennsylvania and the daylight savings system. Sixty-three

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4 The lnter-Scholastic Debate .lust before the tll1l'lStll12'lS recess Miss Urouse announced the subject for the inter-scholastic debate as being, Resolved, that all nations should meet the financial obligations incurred during: the World War. including: the indemnity, as they become due. Arrangeineuts were made with Avalon to have Sewieklev take the attirmative side. Charles liashaar and Robert Sutherin were chosen as the representatives of the school. l,l't'llll1lll2ll'lt'S once aside, the actual work began. A week was given to preparing: a brief. after which the team went over practically all the material in the library pertaining to this subjeet. Still more reading: was done in the libraries at Pittsburgzh. Many a long: hour was passed after the midnight bell had struck. The evening set for the debate was 'l'hursday, l4'ehruary 15th. The building was the Borough llall of Avalon. .Xt last the time and place became a, reality. Avalon certainly put up a good tight. Iler delivery and development of the subject were of excellent character. Sewiekley made an equally good showing: but tate decreed she should lose. Ilowa- ever, the school may well feel proud of the representation her team gave her. Sixty-two

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1 0 History of the Red and Blue ln the fall of 1911, Clive Morrison, a member of the class of 1913, conceived the idea of having some kind of school publication. Accordingly. in Gctober. a small, four-page paper called the Red and Blue was published. The name was suggested by l'aul -I. Cook, '12, who was secretary of the paper and wl1o helped to make it a success. The paper was published each month for the rest of that year. In June a. Commencement number was published, it being larger than the rest and having a paper cover. During the school year 1912-1913, the magazine was again published monthly but it was somewhat larger and had a few illustrations. Clive Morrison was editor again that year. The following two years. 1914-1915 and 1915-1916 the Red and Blue was published quarterly, with George Ellerton as editor the tirst year, and Morris Chapman the second. During the year 1917-1918. the magazine was published in three issues. It. was much larger and had more cuts. Edward Berger was editor. The next year, 1918-1919, the Red and Blue was published as a monthly paper with Fred VVay, Jr., as editor. ln 1919-1920, it was again issued as a quarterly magazine with Elizabeth Bashaar as editor, while in 1920-1921 only three numbers were published, Harold Hertz was editor. Last year, 1921-1922, Donald liorger was editor. Because of linaneial ditiiculties it was only published in two numbers. It was decided by this year's stat? to concentrate their efforts on an annual and to make it the best possible. During: the year the student body voted to change the name from the Red and Blue to Sewihi . Sixty-four