Jesuit High School - Speculum Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Rhetores Chalk Up Honors, Hove Another Building Year Besides the generation gap, our modern society experiences a disquieting ucommunication gap. Under the direction of Fr. John Kindall, S.J., the Rhetores has made strides to close the gap. By fortifying each member's command of the speaking art, the Rhetores developed several winners in its productive program. Mr. Robert Stuckar, S.J. assisted Fr. Kindall in pre- paring freshman and sophomore speakers. For many of the members the speech season started long be- fore the new school year with summer workshops. During the year debaters spoke in over 25 major and minor tournaments. Peter Lee and Jim O'Hanlon also traveled to the West Coast Debate Tournament at the University of San Francisco. Leading the clubs awards, Pat Vala took first place at Lewis and Clark oratory. Mike Meeuwsen captured first at McMinn- ville in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Ed Kaiser placed first in ora- tory at Canby, and at The Dalles Mark Weber was chosen out- standing representative at the Student Congress. Though Dave Mackin took third in original poetry and Pat Vala placed second in oratory, the Rhetores faired poorly in the debating rounds at the Linfield tournament in February. DEBATERS RESEARCHING are, first row: S. Johnson. Second row M Poz Krieger. Third row: J. Duyn, T. Kemper, J. Stempel, P. Lee, J 0 Hanlon ber, .Mach' , . . Vala, M. We D in G Sanders 'L LJ' I R 5 . f , rv' WITH NOTES IN HAND, Fr. Kindall gives last instructions as debate team prepares to leave for Linfield. 66 PETER LEE delivers negative point of view at Portland State speech tournament.

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McGinley Revives Troubador For Poets, Critics, Writers The Troubador, Jesuit's literary magazine, came back from the grave this year. Its haphazard once-a-year, twice-a-year, three-a-year appearance and total disappearance last year hampered efforts to get it back on its feet. Troubador progress was also hindered by the loss o'f modera- tor Mr. Jerry Firnsthal, SJ. early in the year, but under the leadership of new moderator Fr. Theodore St. Hilaire, SJ. and editor-in-chief Kevin McGinley, the magazine quickly re- covered and conquered its financial difficulties through the student senate. . This yearis Troubador followed the format of previous years but for the first time featured pictures. The emphasis was on articles from juniors and seniors due to underclass apathy. The Troubador was originally set to be distributed in Decem- ber, but adverse weather conditions delayed its publishing for three weeks. It finally appeared in January, after many weekends for Kevin McGinley and his staff working in the library on the magazine. CRITICS LEO FITZPATRICK and Marc Gonzales find Troubador to their liking. 101231 I 1411 Q27 'Pb- F

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FR. JOHN KINDALL, S.J. discusses pre-tour- .l -- nament strategy at weekly business meeting. S PETER LEE and Jim o'Hani0n review high I points of tournament with their opponents. L i V 'L 2 i ,. 4 R 'eh ., - 4- .,