Bay City Junior College - Crucible Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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TEE CR 0'C PB iE The next day the season closed with one of the season’s best debates, when Jackson traveled to Bay City. Arnold and- Nickel defended the proposition and Patterson and Guiles Ten Eyck, meanwhile having taken the negative of the question. The audiences that followed the team’s schedule were given a series of interesting discussions. The question was one of current interest and the defense and attack on it were carried out on varied and original lines. Political science, history, economics, and current events, especially pertaining to the N. R. A. or European politics, were ranged in argument. The method of debating was the newly adopted Oregon Plan. In it, the constructive speaker is cross-questioned by his opponent who then delivers the rebuttal. Mr. H. C. Klingbeil, head of the speech department, who coached the team, points to the 1934 season as one of the best that Jaycee has ever achieved. Orator HE Speech Department was represented by a strong squad of forensic T competitors in the 1934 season. Jack Shaler’s oration on the ‘Versailles and Afterward” won the local prize in the annual Peace Oration contest and was eliminated only by a slight margin in the finals of the state competition in Lansing. Edmund Arnold spoke on “Propaganda Toward Peace,” Ira Butterfield’s entry was “It Can Be Done”, and Paul Harvey gave “The New Patriotism’’. Bay City’s delegation to the seventh annual Model League of Nations at Ann Arbor was one of the most prominent at the convention. Eric Timm was amember of the credentials committee and Arnold was one of the guest speakers at the International Relations club’s luncheon for the delegates. Harvey and Timm represented Spain and Arnold and Butterfield the Irish Free State.. They served on committees on Tariffs and Trade Barriers, Disarmament, and Min- orities. Mr. H. C. Klingbeil, speech coach, accompanied the delegation. Butterfield and Shaler represented Bay City at the first convention of the Anti-War League which was also held at Ann Arbor. Top Row—Harvey, Hewitt, Mr. Klingbeil. Second Row—Schade, Hannan, Hart.

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THE CRUCIBLE Debate Timm, Arnold, Patterson, Butterfield in its history. Although the rules of the Michigan College Debate League eliminated judges’ decisions, the local team made a strong showing against excellent opposition. Edmund Arnold and Jack Patterson were the only men on the squad to debate both sides of the League question ‘‘Resolved, that the powers of the president of the United States be increased as a settled policy.”” Arnold, who regularly took the negative, defended the affirmative twice; Patterson changed from the affirmative to the negative once. RB: CITY Junior College had this year its largest and strongest debate team Olivet opened the season in an early tilt with Paul Harvey, a veteran, and Arnold, taking an unofficial decision from Olivet’s affirmative and Patterson and Ida Hannan, the only co-ed on the squad, dropping one to the opposing negative. The team traveled to Highland Park, February 16, to open the regular League season, where Arnold and Ira Butterfield, another veteran, argued the negative before a student assembly, and Eric Timm and Patterson defended presidential power. Timm and Patterson again took the negative when they appeared before an assembly at Port Huron, March 8, while Arnold and Butterfield encountered very strong opposition in the Huron’s negative. A debating field day was held when Muskegon invaded Bay City, February 23, Hart and Schade debated the negative and Timm and Ida Hannan the affirmative in the regular debates. Arnold and Patterson took part in the cross- questioning and rebuttal contests after luncheon given for the debaters in the Little Theatre. Arnold and Patterson debated Flint’s negative at the student clubhouse at Flint, Sunday, March 4, Harvey and Butterfield taking on the affirmative before a large audience at the Lincoln M. E. Church. In a return engagement, Arnold and Butterfield took the negative in a feature debate before the Jaycee assembly on March 21. The same day Timm and Walter Hewitt argued the affirmative. On March 15, Harvey and Carl Nickel engaged Grand Rapids’ affirmative and Miss Hannan and Patterson jousted with the opposing negation. [22]

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T bee) @ Bay CBRL. Publications Top Row—Tucker, Washington, Morrow, Lourim, McCauley. Second Row—Birchard, Bailey, Ceglarek, Lang, Wenger. ne wee Miss McGregor, Fritz, Clymer, E. Arnold. Fourth Row—Watson, Bessyngier, Sullivan, A. Arnold, Beyer. HE Staff which published this annual graduation edition of the Crucible was headed by Edmund Arnold, editor-in-chief. Bruce Hayden was photo- graphy editor and Alice Arnold had charge of the copy. The staff was divided into four sections; classes, activities, sports, and art. Edna Smith, Rosamond Lang, Margaret Morrow, Virginia Bialey, Marie Ceglarek, and Clifton Wenger worked on the graduate section of the book. Recording campus activities were Robert Birchard, Georgia Washington, Jack Tucker, Betty Clymer, Ruth Watson, and Milton Brown. The sports staff was made up of Winifred Thompson, Clifford Swanson, Katherine Lourim, and Francis Barnett. Helen Sullivan, Irene Bessyngier and Dolores Beyer did the art work. Miss McGregor was the faculty advisor. During the past year the Crucible staff was granted the office space for which it had been asking for years. On authorization of the Student Council, one of the conference rooms off the Jaycee reading room has been set aside for the use of publications staffs and equipment is being purchased by the Council. The editor for the 1935 annual has not been named. Changes made in the Student Union constitu- tion last year provide that the yearbook editor shall be named during the first semester of the year of the book’s publication. The book, as usual, was financed by appropria- tions from the Student Activity Fund. All the woik on the book was done by students; no professional help was used in either photography or makeup. Distribution was free to every regularly enrolled Jaycee student. Editor [24]