Tome High School - Trail Yearbook (North East, MD)

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S i Club Debating

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F7 V3 aQ,,,QzX X- gf: 6 X' Qfwkwgg Aviation Club HIS YEAR has seen a new club founded and flourish. Presley and Lark started this organization with a nucleus of fellows interested in aviation. These were Geohegan, Haas, Hawrin, F. W., Law, Moore, Rae, Spallholz, E. H., Steimle, Weil, and White, K. The club was very fortunate in securing Mr. Garrett as faculty advisor. At the first meeting of the club Lark was elected President and Presley Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. Beveridge and Gleeson Murphy were elected to honorary membership. The purpose of the club is to give the members a wider knowledge of modern aviation than that which could be acquired by the reading of newspapers and maga- zines. The meetings, held approximately every two weeks, have been interesting and abounding in information that helps in the understanding of aviation problems. Ar the first meeting of the year Lark and Presley gave talks on The Modern Air- port and The Fokker Super-Universal respectively. The other speakers of the year were Mr. Beveridge on European Airways, Presley on The Flight of the Question Mark, Mr. Mock on The Bellanca Airplane and Factory Operations, and Richard james on My Experiences, all of these speeches being very interesting. At a second business meeting Barron, Easley, Gray, james, U. S., and Wise, were taken into active membership, while all the outside speakers of the year were made honorary members. Presley has asked several other men, prominent in aviation circles, to speak to the club this year, and they are awaited with eagerness by the members. ig? - , X W VP' S' is 4 1' 497 Q .. . -4,4 N ine! y-three

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,r f l ,LX in , ll W .lllilllg CNBDIE-S Cnosiq Alum Llq Debating HE DEBATING CLUB began the third year of its activities at Tome when candidates reported to Mr. Kelbaugh, the Faculty Advisor, and Mr. Tuttle shortly after the Christ- mas recess. These men comprising the Club were President jones, Secretary Woodbury, Owen, Webber, Weyersberg, Hodge, and Helvenston. At the first meeting the purpose and function of the Club was explained by President Jones, and preparations were begun for a debate to be held twelve days afterwards by which those men best suited to repre- sent the school could be selected. The same query was debated then as on February lst with the George School at Philadelphia. It was Resolvedg That the quota provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 should be eliminatedw. The debaters selected were jones, Owen, Webber, and alternate Weyersberg. Upholding the negative side of the above mentioned resolution the Blue and White team was defeated by the George School debaters. The arguments were exceedingly well developed by both sides, and in his criticism of the speeches after the close of the conflict, Mr. I. R. Kraybill, the judge, declared that the faults of the Tomester's orations rested primarily in the facts that the boys used notes and did not enunciate clearly. At the time THE TRAIL goes to press preparations are under way for the coming debate with Gilman at Tome on April 26th concerning public utilities. It is quite likely, too, that arguments with other schools will be held. Although possibly the small- est extra-curricular activity at Tome the Debating Club has proved both entertaining and interesting to its members. Ninety-fue