Gonzaga High School - Aetonian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

Page 59 text:

CAMPION DEBATING SOCIETY Loft to right: S. Lee, C. Cooney, E. Woodland, J. May, J. Theriault, J. Corbley, Fr. Coolahan. S.J., Moderator, P. Hein, C. Griffith, L. Buckingham, W. Roswell, J. Matthews, A. Hengel. As soon as material was gathered and pre- pared on the National Debating Topic: Re- solved, that the legal voting age should be lowered to eighteen, Mr. Messemer, S.J., ap- pointed the regular Affirmative and Negative teams, which entered into an extensive sched- ule of debates with teams from many outside schools, including Western and Roosevelt, Iocallyg Georgetown Prep, Loyola Prep of Baltimore, and Xavier Prep of New York City. The Society also sent two teams to the ari- nual George Washington University Debate Conference, which determines the best high- school debating team in Washington. The two societies of the junior division, the Campion and Taney, under the able direction of Fr. Richard Coolahan, S. J., and Fr. Joseph Stoffel, S.J., made great strides in learning the fundamentals of public speak- ing. All meetings were well attended and the debates gave evidence of a great future for debating at Gonzaga. TANEY DEBATING SOCIETY Loft to right, Bottom Row: G. Pavloff, P. O'Donoghue, T. McGuire, J. Hunt, J. du Fief, J. M. Deale, Fr. Stoffel, SJ. Second Row: F. Donesa, J. Goebel, P. Mudd, L. Lemley, H. Mullins, E. Terry, F. McGrath, J. Mullins, R. Corcoran, T. Daley. Top Row: P. Creamer, J. Loftus, W. Murphy, R. Johnston, R. Redman, R. McGowan, R. O'- Keeffe, W. Collins, J. Reeves, E. Mitchel.

Page 58 text:

gqtion Si' e S . - u . h 5 nAcode,9iEnec:lSro the mind t u Vigo' and Rus exercised' PHOCIAN DEBATING SOCIETY Left to right: C. Edwards, J, Pyne, T. Kerekes, E. Schnellbacher, C. Liller, Mr. Messemer, S.J., Moderator. Off to the verbal bottle. A DEBATING The desire to express oneself orally, to think logically, clearly, and ot the some time quickly, to augment knowledge of parliamen- tary procedure-these ideas form the foun- dation of Gonzogo's Phocion, Campion and Taney Debating Societies. The Phocion Society, made up of students from the Senior and Junior years, was or- ganized early in October and immediately set to work in various open-forum discussions and intra-squad debates. Soon afterwards elections were held which named Gene Edwards, President, Tibor Kerekes, Vice Presi- dent, and Richard Gordon, Secretary. Under the leadership of these officers and that of Mr. Edward J. Messemer, S.J., the society developed into o smoothly working unit of Gonzaga's extra-curricular activities.

Page 60 text:

prevail. the ,,we,e ghurirzvefoa vehicle of wgldd P Il Biffle. fr-'fl' ' ' Left to right, First Row: R. Gordon, J. Owens, E. Schnellbacher, Fr. Clements, S.J., Moderator, J. Pyne, F. McDonald, G. Kern, M. Dougherty. Second Row: P. Barnes, J. Awad, M. Farace, R. Price, D. Shreve, W. McGuire, E. Woodland, R. Donovan, J. Hunt, H. Daley, J. Rodler. 1 AQUILIAN This year, the Aquilian, the official journal of the students of Gonzaga High School, has completed the fifth of its five successful years of publication. Replacing Mr. Joseph M. Snee, S.J., modera- tor of the paper for the past two years, the Rev. Ernest B. Clements, S.J., served as new moderator, and Rev. John F. X. Bellwoar, S.J.. as financial director. The editorial staff up to the customary mid-term changes included Ed Burns, a January graduate, as editor-in-chief. Gene Edwards, associate editor, and Robert Storrs, sports editor. At the beginning of the second semester, the staff alterations found Jack Pyne as editor, Carl Liller, news editor, and Gerald Kern, sports editor. The rest of the staff was increased to fifty members, so that as many students as possible could contribute to its edition. Rated among the best of student news- papers by the Catholic School, the Quill and Scroll, and the National Scholastic Press Associations, the record of the Aquilian was very impressive during the past year. Many innovations added to the quality of the poper's make-up. New headline and body type, as well as the addition of many original column cuts, greatly improved its appearance, while the inauguration of several novel fea- tures assured better reader interest. The paper itself is composed of six pages. -a full page of school news items, an editor- ial page, a sports page, and many regular columns and features, including a humor column, a senior personality sketch, a book review, a Sodality report, and an exchange column, relating the highlights of other school's activities, found in the numerous school papers which are received regularly at the Aquilian office. The Aquilian office, on the first floor of Kohlman Hall, has incessantly been the center of unabating energy. Whether you passed by near the deadline date, or just after an issue came out, you would have always found a business-like atmosphere in the office. You might have seen the editors, planning the forthcoming issue or checking the copy before press-time, the scribes,'scribbling their assign- ed news articlesg the rewrite staff, rewarding and reordering the copy, the columnists, searching for inspiration, the typists, pound- ing away on their keyboards, and finally the moderator, advising and suggesting. Thus, amid the turmoil and confusion of a bustling staff, the Aquilian was prepared for the reader.