Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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Speech Team Speaks Out The year was a peachy one for speech team. The members started right off preparing for district speech, which was held in Alliance. Each member first had to decide on which event they wanted to participate. After finding adequate material to work with and spending several weeks of practice, the team took further steps to prepare by attending meets and competing with other area schools. The first meet of the year was held in Rushville, and several members came home with medals and ribbons, while the second one held in Morrill was just as successful. After the speech team members had worked with the judges' comments and took time for a little more practice, they were ready for the big day at district. Everyone received either a superior or an excellent rating from the judges and four of the twelve members were able to compete at the state competition in Kearney. Speech team Coach Miss Janet Swarthout puts in several hours ot hard work and is sure to make district an organized success for the year The year came to an end with the team knowing they had done the best they could and immediately began to prepare for next year. Marcy Edminster brings out the humor in her interpretation of humorous prose, Samson and Delilah, as she performs tor an attentive audience and the judge. The speech team, who put many hours into preparing for district, include Angie Moore. Bethanie Meyer. Michelle Forney, Marcy Edminster, Rikke Jorgensen, Linda Fairbanks, Vicki Clark, Miss Swarthout (speech coach), Ron Kollars. Joe Bowen. Diana Purchase. Barry Lamm, and Kay Wildy. Angie Moore puts feeling into her poetry script so the audience can experience the same emo tional impact as the authors felt when they wrote it. 26 Speech Team

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Release. E.T. Moves Into Art Art IV student Senior Blake Mahnke presents: the three stages ot, the Extra-Terrestrial. 1) Putting the finishing touches on E.T.'s tace. 2) Almost done! He's so ugly he's really kind of cute. 3) E.T. helps lift the Bulldogs' spirit during a victorious Homecoming week. SAYS j- Art students displayed their work on the main hall bulletin board during the year. This display changed often, giving the student body a view of the different aspects of art. Art classes offered again were: Art I, an introduction into art history, drawing and some painting and pottery. Sophomores found themselves in Art II, an extension between Art I and Art III. They did more drawing and painting and were introduced to the pottery wheel. Art III students started to use oil paints, did aluminum casting and did more work on the pottery wheel. Art IV was mostly individual projects of fhe students’ choice with a great emphasis in art history. General Art took a little bit of everything and threw it into a year’s course. Students with little artistic background found that this class taught them drawing, weaving, pottery, painting, and other crafts. Overall, art was an enjoyable subject for all fhose involved. Art 25

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As a member of speech team, Michelle Forney works to perfect her script in the Original Public Address category hoping to get a high rating from the judges. As Barry Lamm presents his story “The Jokester' in serious prose, he not only entertains the audience, but he teaches the practical jokers a lesson. Four members from the team triumphantly receive the honor to attend state: Barry Lamm, serious prose: Angie Moore, poetry and duet acting; Bethanie Meyer, duet acting: and Marcy Edminster. humorous prose. Speech Team 27