Champlain College - Du Lac Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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DEBATE CLUB ln The early Tall oT l946 The STudenT Forum Com- miTTee under The leadership oT Edward Benskie planned a debaTe Tor one oT iTs programs. Mr. Jerome Kovalcik, assisTanT proiessor oT English, was asked To acT as moderaTor. Comcerences concern- Ed Benskie and Bob Price againsT Canisius College, Buffalo. ing This Forum acTiviTy grew inTo meeTings, and meeTings grew inTo The organizaTion oT a Tormal de- baTe club. Since Then, The growTh oT The Cham- plain College DebaTe Club has been consisTenT wiTh ThaT oT The AssociaTed Colleges oT Upper New York. The year l946-47 was highlighTed by.yicTarieS over McGill UniversiTy, ST. Michaels, VermonT, Middlebury, and Rhode Island STaTe aT The Uni- versiTy oT VermonT TournamenTg by a radio debalfe wiTh Middlebury College: by The spliT-Team, no.. decision debaTe wiTh Cambridge UniversiTy beTore 600 people aT The campus TheaTerg and by aglive parTicipaTion in The Model Congress aT Rhode lsland STaTe College. The radio debaTe wiTh Middlebury was chosen as The NaTional Model Uni- versiTy Radio DebaTe oT i946-47, and The enTire TexT oT The program appears in The UniversiTy De- baTers' Annual. ln The 1947-48 season, Tour Two-man Teams won I2 oT I6 debaTes To lead 29 colleges and universi- Ties in The UniversiTy oT VermonT 'lournamenT. Coached by Jerome G. Kovalcik, Ed Benskie, Bob Price, Frank Bruno, Max Zelikovsky, OTTo MerTz, T-larold DrinkwaTer, Lawrence LaFounTain, and lvens STanTon represenTed The Champlain DebaTe Club. Ed Benskie and Bob Price also iourneyed To New York CiTy beTore ChrisTmas where They were de- TeaTed Tor The TirsT Time by Fordham UniversiTy. FurTher acTiviTies ThaT were scheduled Tor The second semesTer included home-and-home debaTes wiTh Dawson College, parTicipaTion in The Brooklyn College lnviTaTional TournamenT, and a Trip To meeT Mohawk College oT UTica, New York, and Canisius College oT BuTTalo. FronT Row: Barbara Gale, Jerome Kovalcill, RoberT Price, Harold DrinkwaTer. Second Row: Frank Maslak, Elmer Arnold, Edward Benskie, Max Zelikovsky, Frank Bruno. Back Row: OTTo MerTz, Lawrence La FounTdl'1- Myron RoThschild, HerberT Mann- 1, I p ire 1' . PICFP , . iiVi - Fil ECONO ,vu wifi px' 164 ,are U wg rf' ., ,. ,fx '- OA! , . . ,I Q r' if ' i . I IM! I ,A . 3112.1- --ir' . . -' , F . I fi 1 2 ui 1.6 I r,n' n 1 .ua ri' .4-' f Q - '51 P1655 .4 1 ,.. ri ' ' nf' .- VY. Sf'p Q.-3 Ilzarig-p1,,,, S5-fi lr' 5 is Bog., , ,q W mfr

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l948 EcliTors: Edmond Semel, Eugene Chillemi, Dan Ma- honey, ArnT Froshaug. I, TTEE , I gg .refers - Q: s'.:enTS -4 Q.-3-:phnn .UT - guiieiwffl 'g-'15, in f if :'9r85T T ' 'AL Mft:-'E 'Y -A ' '55- . n :saw nd Mrs Domlh 1 '?' Z 5 7 f ff' ,a z ,. 1 'f,,.:1f Ol' -N YZ' -- is-, 4 4 JT iff! :fl Z - , f Z9 . .f7',1 fi 4 KC f . ,:-31' 15x JZ' ?, Z TTTTXX T s S X eb. S NF' X ' Sa X is Ti' XR aes, 2-is X, :ill 'QX .f -- X 3 i -X . SX - T' i'c ' f? g X.-,. -:X if ,mei X345 Els if XXS X XX X , Q .--:fi .:.- X . 117 4. FronT Row: Don Freund, News EdnTorg Lois Levy, Eric Bruell, EcllTor: AlberT Kosow, Business Manager. QW' Second Row: William Freedberger, William Leder, Daniel Peyser, Bernard BrownsTeun, Marion Mar- shall, Arnold Craft Third Row: WalTer Wagner, AssisTanT News EdiTorg KenneTh Sfein. FourTh Row: Phil Scalzo, Dave Bird, Murray Berlin. Z Z7 f 5 '14 Z ' 2324 S , TWT ... --:- .fyf Z- -Z 12 M5 X :gf 111 ,f .T . Q 5 1 1 .-5-9 ,Q ff f iv , 1 ,gf Z 1-'-' , 'ff 1 , Z 61 5 . ,1 Z , f if Z . 1 f f w' f f Za! 'gf 1 1,1 Z , fi X ' 4' 'f 1 f 1 f f 7 gf 1 y 1X 7 Z 1 7 f 5 1 Q' ' Q X .. X is X N J s. X s K X f il K 6 X 5.5 XX X ga - g .3 5 X X X XE Q .EN i nz X .ga QNX , 'za X X ' Q X XX L vw E ax 1. g s X in STX oi 5 -. .- ' h 1 E r X A 1 W ij: .f If fi y Q14 . 2 .if .- J' Qi A f if . 4 Z ,1g ji X, .- T if .- , X f I, Z If 1 ,Z X 1 K Qt 74, 1 ,Q If ef f Z X f? 1 y , if 44 X , jf pf! 9 ' f Z if 4' f gif ff' f THE CHAMPLAINER As The TirsT sTudenT publicaTion charTered, The Champlainer in iTs Two years oT publicaTion has charTed, Through news and TeaTures, The progress Ol: The college. WiTh z.-any ups and downs The paper has conTinued To TuncTion as an organ oT The ThoughTs, news, and opinions oT The sTudenT body, and has aTTorded all sTudenTs an opporTuniTy To PGV' TicipaTe in The necessary producTion, b wriTing phases. T ln The academic year T946-47, The Champlainel' usiness. and grew sTeadily Trom a dope-sheeT To a saTisTacTory college newspaper, and reached rnaTuriTy in The Tall semesTer oT l947. A club news secTion was insTi- TuTed, TeaTures were expanded To include RuTus T. FireTly, and The Thumb-Nose SlceTches. The news and sporTs sTaTTs were able To secure more cornpleTe coverage oT local happenings, and The phoTographs were increased To enhance TurTher The cleaThless prose. V cf-Y Q f W L W5 X A

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