Shafter High School - Laurion Yearbook (Shafter, CA)

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FORENSIC ACTIVITIES We might as well say vvithout any discussion that this school turns out some pretty good arguersr For the first time in the history of the Shatter High School, the debating team of this year vvon the county and valley title, receiving plaques in both events The valley championship was won by defeating Roosevelt High School of Fresno. Rosie Unruh and Richard Hetz won their debate at Shaffer, Amanda Johnson and James Livers won theirs at Fresno. ln this Sierra Forensic Conference the seven members of our debating squad won eight out of ten contests this year, which means that we defeated Delano, McFarland, Taft Sophomores, Bakersfield Sophomores, and Roosevelt Sophomores at Fresno, On April I, Henry Janzen and James Horton represented Shatter in the county oratorical contest, which was held at Shafter, Although they dzd not win a place, they received honorable mention by the judges. The extempore contest, in which Shatter was represented by tvvo speakers, Henry Janzen and Elmer Dahl, was held too late in the year to be entered in the Annual. Mr. White and Mr, Porterfield, the advisers of the forensic activities, have worked long and hard this year and deserve a great deal of credit in the success of the organization. e Five out of the seven members vver seniors and graduate this year, leaving a very small group behind to on so advisers will have to do some scouting around next year to find year's record ft - Page Twenty nine

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FORENSIC CLUB First Semester Officers Second Semester l-lenry Janzen . , President . . l-lenry Janzen James Livers , . vice President . . James Livers Elmer Dahl . . A , Secretary-Treasurer . . Amanda Johnson Gregory lvlalofy . Forensic Manager . . Gregory Nlalofy Mr, Porterfield . , Adviser . . . . Mr. Porterfield lvlr. White . A , ,.i4 Adviser 4,.. . . . Mr. White This club was organized last year, and for the length of time it has existed it has accomplished a great deal. lt was organized to promote participation in speech activities and to stimulate school interest in the speech arts. The contests that are entered in this work include oratory, extempore speaking, and debate. The membership of this club is limited to charter members and those who have represented their school in this type of activity. The new members are selected by the old members and voted into the club, Each member purchases a bronze pin, but those who have represented the school in some official type of contest are awarded a jeweled gold S, the jewels standing for the different contests they par- ticipated in during the year, During the latter part of the second semester the Forensic Club gave their an- nual l-li Jinx Assembly. This went over with a bang and was even better than the one given last year, In the month of May the club gave a lawn party. To this they invited all the contestants and coaches of the Sierra Forensic Conference, Shafter is obtaining much favorable publicity throughout the valley for its interest in speech activity, and the Club has done what it can to stimulate this interest. Page Twenty-eight

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Page Thirty SEQUOIA HI-Y First Semester Officers Second Semester Jack White . . President . . , , Jack White Richard lcletz . . Vice President . . Herbert Neuman Victor Voth . , Secretary-Treasurer . . John O'l-lanneson Merwin Olson . Program Chairman . . . Merwin Olson lvlr, White . . . ..,t Adviser . . . , Mr. White The Sequoia Hi-Y should break the record for hamburger eating. At their initiation of the new members at the beginning of the first semester, they had ham- burgers for the salad, main course, and dessert. We certainly pity the boys who had to make them all. A little later they held a weiner roast at Kern River, and girls were invited, After it was over they all went into Bakersfield to a show. During the second semester a walking scavanger hunt was given, and girls were invited. Those close neighbors of the school had an awful lot of callers-and of all the different things they wantedl Marriage licenses, peacock feathers, pic- tures of Hitler, and a dozen other things. The event of which everybody got the benefit, though, was the basketball game between the Y and the faculty, You should have seen all those teachers who are usually supposed to act dignifiedl They were dressed in football togs, all different- colored stockings, and silly hats, They played a new type of game that called for no rules, and where nobody lparticularly the facultyl paid any attention to the referee. lt isn't often new rules are introduced in basketball, so every one was immensely interested in the game, The proceeds went to help in the flood relief. Outstanding also was the presentation of a free assembly- Professor Dummel- head's Class -before the student body, and later before the P, T, A.