University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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- 11 T H C T , U orensic V ouncil The Forensic Council of the University is composed of all the members of the public speaking department, the presidents of all the men ' s literary and debating societies, all active members of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary forensic fraternity, and the president of the Students ' Association. Mr. Ellwood Griscom is chair- man of the council, and Thomas A. Rousse is debate coach. Representatives from Delta Sigma Rho are: Arthur Bagby, Leroy Jeffers, Will Crews Morris, Ben Davis, and Spurgeon Bell. The remaining membership is composed of Tom Bagby, president of Athenaeum Literary Society; Wendell Little, president of Hogg De- bating Club; Eli Lipner, president of Rusk Literary Society, and Wilson Elkins, president of the Students ' Association. The Forensic Council has supervision over all forensic activities, intramural and intercollegiate. The council controls eligibility rules, scheduling of debates, selection of judges, and all other matters pertaining to intramural and intercollegiate competition. During the current year the activities of the council have been concentrated on perfecting plans for and making possible the sending of a Texas debater on an Ail-American team that will conduct an European tour in the spring of 1933, meeting several English universities as well as schools on the continent. The Univer- sity of Kansas and the University of Missouri will contribute a man each to this three-man team. The council contemplates the consummation of this tour as an event marking the national recognition of the standard of University of Texas debating. IkJ WJI .t.ft Top row: Morris, Elkins, Lipner, Rousse, Davis, Bell Bottom row: A. Bagby, Jeffers, R. Bagby, Little, Griscom Page ip:

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H U c urtam CU OFFICERS Dale Rowden Ted Lewis Moody Margie Bright . Barnett Shaw Lee Thomas Arno Nowotny President Vice-President Secretary Director Business Manager Faculty Advisor MEMBERS June Eva Alexander Margie Bright Ruth Brown RoLLiN Cayce J. J. Deiss Helen Engleking Mary Aden Everett Henry Fullerton Gladys Garonzik Julia Garrett Kate Griffith Bess Harris Martin Hirsch Isadore Horowitz Grace Jones Althea Klumpp Girard Kinney EuLA Lee McKnight Katherine Marshall Florence Martin Jim Muckleroy Joe Munster Ted Lewis Moody Irving Moore Dorothy Peckham Edgar Pfeil Sidney Pietzsch Russell Ponder Leanore Purvin Dale Rowden Eugene Sanger Barnett Shaw Jo Shofner HoRTON Smith Esther Mae Tarver Melba Taylor Lee Thomas Ruth Wheelan Fleming Waters Mary Alice Watson Mary Lynn Young The Curtain Club was founded in 1909 by Stark Young. Since that time it has grown to be one of the most popular organizations on the campus. The club gives interested students an opportunity for dramatic train- ing. Semi-monthly business meetings are held, and membership is elective. The club is looking forward to moving into new quarters upon the completion of the Student Union Build- ing. In the fall two plays, Bright Island and Laff That Off were presented. The spring program in- cluded an evening of one-act plays, The Waltz of the Dogs, and Tale of the Wolf. First row: Griffith, Garret, Schofnf.r, Taylor, Klumpp. Harris Second row: McKnight, Martin. Purvin, Tarver. Peckham, Marshall, Alexander, Wheelan Third row: Pietzsch, Sanger, Horowitz, Hirsch, Smith, Rovtoen, Kinnkv, Thomas, Shaw. L.?-. Page 13:

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A U - ) Det aters As survivors of elimination contests in which mort- than sixty entrants participated, twelve men were named during the latter part of the first semester to constitute the Varsity Debate Squad for the current year. Six letter-men returned to school to represent Texas again in the forensic arena: Spurgeon Bell, third-year man; Frank Knapp, serving the third of a scheduled five years on the squad ; Will Crews Morris, with two previous letters to his credit; Leroy Jeffers, serving his fifth consecutive year on the Texas team; and John J. Bell and Aylmer G. McNeese, both letter-men from last year, comprising this group. Roy I. Tennant and Edward Reichelt returned to the squad for their second year of service. In addition, four new men of promising ability in the persons of Jesse Villarreal, Simon Frank, Jarrell Garonzik, and Mathias Schon were added to the University team. Shortly after the selection of the squad, Leroy JefTers was elected captain of the Varsity debaters for the present forensic year. Texas opened the debate season with the traditional international debate held on December 14, this year ' s encounter being with an able and clever team from Robert ' s College, Turkey, in which the proposition, Re- solved: That Turkey Should Be a Member of the League of Nations was discussed, the Texas men taking the affirmative. Spurgeon Bell and Leroy Jeffers represented Texas in this contest, held in Gregory Gym- nasium, which resulted in an audience decision in favor of the Turks. The program for the remainder of the season included debates with the University of Kansas in Austin and at San Antonio, where the debate was broadcast over Station WOAL debates in Austin with the University of Oklahoma, Tulane, and Colorado. In addition, a Texas team made a tour during the latter part of March, meeting Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Washington University at St. Louis in the debate arena. The grand finale of the forensic year was staged during the Texas Round-Up in the latter part of April when the annual Lutcher Stark Contest for cash prizes totaling $225.00 was distributed between the members of the squad. The University debate team defeated Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Tulane and lost to Roberts College, Constantinople, and Arkansas. Top row: McNkese, S. Bell, J. Bell, Knapp, Rouse, Jeffers, Morris Bottom row: Schon, Garonzik, Frank, Tennant, Reichelt, Villarreal Page 233