Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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THE THEATER 1axAs TI2CI'I,S speech department presented three plays this year. Work on the Hrst production began just as the school year started since it was presented at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas on the first of October. It was Antigone, with Anne Barasch, graduate from Lubbock, playing the title role. Alter returning from the Fair, An- tigone was presented on campus in connection with the Fine Arts Festival beginning Nov. 6. It was to have run three days but due to capacity crowds it was held over until Nov. ll. Orpheus Descending by Tennes- see Williams was the second produc- tion presented Ian. 29-30 and Feb. 3-5 in the Speech auditorium. This was one of the first amateur productions to be presented of Orpheus Descending following the play's New York staging several seasons ago. The story tells of a handsome guileless youth and a woman storckeeper. The youth, a gui- tar player, is a rural Orpheus who de- scends to rescue his love in a town in- fested with gossip, intrigue and vio- lence. The Madwoman of Chaillot was the third play performed by speech de- partment students. It was presented April 6-ll in the Speech auditorium. This play is a French fantasy by lean Giraudoux showing the triumph of a mad woman over the greed of the world. Elizabeth Hoyer of Wellington, Kan., portrayed the madi' woman and Wayne Gibbens of Breckenridge played the leading role of the president. The Speech dcpartment's major func- tion is to service the students in devel- oping and aiding them individually to attain the highest possible level of oral communicative effectiveness. Dr. P. Merville Larson is head of the speech department, and he has a staff of seven. Speech instructors and students pro- vide many extra-currieular activities for students and town people. They pre- sent plays throughout the year, ollfer courses helpful to everyone and spon- sor workshops and speech meetings every year. The 25th Invitational Forensic Fes- tival was sponsored by the speech de- partment in the fall. At the two-day meet, Tech debate teams competed with 44 teams from 16 colleges and universities attending. This was the largest Forensic Festival sponsored by the speech department. The depart- ment also sponsors debate teams which are active throughout the year. This year the Varsity squad went to Baylor University, Abilene Christian College and the Intercollegiate Forensics Tour- nament at the University of Wichita in Kansas. An all-speech-class demonstration meet was held this year with repre- sentative speakers from the 12 speech sections. One person from each section was chosen to compete in this meet. Many activities are planned for area high school students and teachers. The speech department sponsors an annual High School Speech Activities Confer- ence, featuring four major areas of speech: demonstration, declamation, Ronald S. Schulz poetry reading, and extemporaneous speaking. A high school speech work- shop in the summer is an annual event with the speech department. High schoolers receive instruction in dramat- ics, declamation, debate discussion, ex- temporaneous speaking, poetry reading and radio-television experience. Stu- dents produce as many plays as can be cast from the group during the work- shop. Shoptalk day is sponsored in the winter for speech teachers or teachers interested in speech instruction from kindergarten to graduate school. This is a day of cooperative sharing of ideas including both curricular and extra- curricular planning. I4 Orpheus Descending Hobbs in a iam . . . And the band played on

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