Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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THE 1940 PERISCOPE STAFF . . Editor.................................... Associate Editor.......................... Assistants............................ Sports Editor.............. Assistant.............. Photo Editor............... Art Editor................. Copy Editor................ Business Manager . Advertisement Manager Assistants .... Sales Manager . Assistants Thomas Riggs La Verna Wall . . Elsbeth Wall Delores Autritt lean Howard Betty Smith . Bill Blackley Derril Allen Don Pinkerton Jim Boydston Maxine Groesser . Jean Enstead . . . Ray Dick . . Jay Hyde Retta Mae Kersey Bonnie Grow Pat Smith Louise Scott Ty Brown Louis Nichol . Dick Hartman Connie Rutledge Carol Schriver Louise Scott Pat Smith Ed Cutler Richard Riggs Phyllis Howard

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BAND VARSITY 'D' .

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Miss Esther Greenwell, affirmative coach; Caroline Brockway, Lorene Agee, Ray Dick, Dorthy Wiebe, R. M. Murphy, negative coach; (Back row) Betty Smith, Clark Robb, Cathryn Rohrs, Tom Riggs, Jim Boydston missing from picture. VARSITY DEBATORS . . Debaters representing Dallas high in 1939-40 upheld the school's name three times during the year when they took three second place honors in as many series against teams from all over the state. Each time, it was Salem high school, ancient forensic rivals, who rated top ranking by narrow margins—twice doing it in state tournament competition and once in the mid-Willamette district. As usual, the debate season began in the fall with the inter-class series. These debates were finished before Christmas, and found the seniors winning. From this group were chosen varsity debaters and others to represent the school at the Linfield tournament the first week-end in February. This marked the beginning of the inter-school debating. The first team was one of four teams to survive the competition of the preliminary rounds, and were finally awarded individual second place certificates. Salem won first. In the annual competition in the mid-Willamette district during February and March, the Dallas first team took eight debates, winning twice each from Independence, Corvallis, Woodburn and Albany and dropping two close debates to Salem, one being a split decision. Dallas lost in the district by a single judge's vote in this series, the final score being 22-21 in favor of Salem. The second week-end in March found the nine varsity debaters entered in the first annual state debate tournament at Willamette University. The Dallas teams were two of the five teams to go into the semi-final rounds. The second team lost two decisions, while the first team had the same record, but having won one and lost one to Salem, placed second in the tournament to receive individual medal awards. The second team tied for third place.