Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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'WI' Public Speaking UPPER PANEL ' TOP ROVV, Left to right: , Miss Pauline B. Sleeth, Ruth Walker, Elsie Patton, Max- ine LeFaivere, Geraldine Kantzer, Edith Wilcox, Dorothy Ewing, Selby Funk. Louise Clark, Ellen Kittrell. SECOND ROW: Dora Gillig, Helen Hart, Fern Warren, Kenneth Frank- lin, Marguerite Thomas, Anna Ruth Mans, Gaye Stites. Debate LOWICR l'ANl'Il, STANDING, Left to right: Bill Hamilton, Selby Funk, Milforrl Rawlings, Glzulye Cowen, George Reynolds. SIQATICD: Helen Ward, Harry Skornizt, Anna Ruth Mans. Moonlight The entire city was covered with a silvery sheen and a soft glow that only the light of the moon can produce. Beautiful things were more pronounced and even dullcr objects had taken on an aspect of beauty. Trees shinimered in the moonlight like delicate pieces of cut glass, giving forth twinkling lights as they swayed back and forth in the breeze, reflecting the light of the moon on their shiny surfaces, looking too fragile to be touched. Harsh colors were now softened to more pleasing qualities, and the world seemed to be wrapped in a blanket of deep silence. The tranquillity of the scene added to its splendor and made one forget his daily cares and worries R-Jack Axley The Approaching of the Fog The other evening as I was driving east of town under a clear sky and the light of a nearly full moon, I had the opportunity of seeing the approach of a fog. Far to the north it appeared, coming toward me as a low cloud of smoke. Closer and closer it came until at last I was engulfed in it. The first cloud of fog passed quickly and I saw it moving into the south as a passing cloud of dust. Shortly after came another cloud of fog so dense that the bright moon became only a blotch of dim light. In this short time the clear beautiful evening had been converted into a dismal damp area of darkness. -Donald Beatson PAGE 253

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Public Speaking Department Active UBLIC speaking department of the Arkan- sas City Junior College has made a name for itself locally and in the state. Ever since the organization of the department, it has served as a bureau of entertainment for the whole community, and its members have had the opportunity to put on whole programs for clubs in the city and for rural schools throughout the southern part of the county. Its players and readers have been in constant demand, and have appeared on as many as sixty-five outside pro- grams in one year. Last year, members of the class provided a guest program for the English Club of Southwestern College in Winfield, and have an invitation to give a choral reading program for the same club in the near future. This is one of of the few schools in this part of the state which has developed a reading choir. Whether of the nature of comedy or tragedy, the plays produced have always been of a high type and have received the Commendation of the public. Among the long plays produced in the past are: He and She and Everyday by Rach- el Crothersg Second Childhood, Covington and Simpsong You and I, and The Youngest, Phil- lip Barry, The Enemy, Channing Pollockg 'tMary Rose, by James Barrie, and The Garden of the Moon, by Arthur Jearue. For the last two yars the annual speech play has also been given in Cedar Vale as a number of the Lyceum in that town. In the state and district contests Arkansas City Junior College has ranked high, having received a number of firsts and seconds in both reading and oration. Last year Edward Bowlby won second place in oration, and Joy Maurine Parman, second in reading in the district contest. The preceeding year Ray Sandefur won first in reading. Those who have done well in this department have in some cases won immediate recognition in other colleges to which they have gone, and in some cases have been granted advanced standing. Members of the class who have gone into teach- ing positions have found much use for the training received in this department. Another feature of the department is the College Dinner Club, which provides opportunity for de- lightful social contact as well as for practice pro- grams. It meets once a month. All former mem- bers of the class are welcome to attend at any time. Members of the class are: Dorothy Ewing, Louise Clark, Dora Gillig, Sarah Elizabeth Gots- chall, Helen Hart, Geraldine Kantzer, Ellen Kit- trell, Anna Ruth Maus, Elsie Patton, Gaye Stites, Marguerite Thomas, Fern Warren, Ruth Walker, Edith Wilcox, Dale Davis, Kenneth Franklin, Selby Funk, Robert Somers, and Maxine Le Faivere. Miss Pauline B. Sleeth is the istructor. Reward Time-you open-handed thief, Stealing all the golden brief, Sweet hours of life--what bold defense, What calculated recompense Can you oH'er'? Who's to pay For the loss of each glad day A? Time is silent, but the thought Of memories that can't be bought Comes to solace me, as though Time had always willed it to. And I smile to see, each day, Time to snatch the hours but leave the pay. -Miss Inez Johnson. PAGE Z2 To A Live Coal A weird pulsating glow, a crimson heart, An everchanging oft-times fading light. Thought nought but just a piece of anthracite, T'is now transformed-a mystic work of art. Dids't ever dream a thousand years ago That this would be thy end '? Thy final goal? For waving plant to ever turn to coal, And glow there, as the dying fire burn low! Be thou content, Oh Rock, could I but have A life as long and odd as thine has been, Though knowing I'd be ashes by and by, T'would be a soothing balm, a healing salvc To find that in one thousand years or ten, Like thee, I'd glimmer there-till time to die. -Marguerite Thomas.

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Skornia Coaches College Debaters HE question for debate this year was Re- solved, that Congress should be allowed to override, by a two-thirds majority vote, de- cisions of the Supreme Court declaring acts of Confrress unconstitutional. This question is a vital one at the present time because cf the recent decisions of the Supreme Court involving the New Deal legislation of the present administration. Therefore the material for both thi- alfirmative and the negative sides of the fi'i':ft.iot1 was to be found in many current news- papers and magazines, as well as in the political fpeeflics of the representatives of both political parties. As the members of the team were late in get- ting started on their collections of data and ma- terial to be used in their speeches, they are to be coinmended for their show'ng at the first practice tournament which they attinded. It was held in VVinfield on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7. They only attended one other tournament, also a practice, at Hutchinson, February 7 and 8. The members of the team were furnished with the same general iraterial which all the debaters of the various schools used. In addition, they are expected to read articles in current publications to secure more material for their speeches. In order to clinch their arguments for or again- st the question for debate, the speaker must have many references and much evidence with which to prove his points. He must have many quota- tions taken from the speeches, sayings, and let- ters of famous leaders all over the country in or- der to prove that his statement is backed by the opinion of someone who has carved out his niche in the Hall of Fame and who, therefore, may ex- press his opinions and thus win the respect and backing of his followers. It is also especially ef- fective to have a statement from either one of the Suprenxf- Court judges or a member of Congress who has been rash enough to commit himself u.ga'nst his own faction. In that way a debate! may confuse the opposing team cnsiderably. There are various technical terms in a debate whicli the debater must learn to recognize and rse. He must also be able to be a forceful speaker, impressing his listeners and the judge with his knowledge o the question and his firm belief in his opinions and arguments which must, as stated before, be backed by conclusive evidence. There are certain procedures for each speaker to follow, for instance, the second negative speak- er must first sum up the opponents arguments i'.'.Gl'1 24 which have been refuted by his colleague, the first negative speakerg he must then name those that he is going to disprove and then do sog he must give his own constructive speech, as well as building up his colleague's case again if it has been torn down by the first affirmative speaker. These are only some of the things the second negative speaker has to do, and there is a certain procedure for each of the speakers to follow. Thus, one may sie that debate has a great deal of work connected with it. and that, since each de- bater must be first on one side of the question and then on the other, he has a lot to lea1'n in the time in which he is preparing his material. Debate activities are a vital part of the school's activities, and a team needs encouragement just as badly as a basketball or football team. The debate team of the junior college this year consisted nfostly of new members, all of the for- mer ones having graduated last year, Milford Rawlings was the only one who had been out for debate at any other time in Arkansas City, and Gladys Cowen had had one year of debating eX- perience in high school at Cullison, under Miss Elsie Penfield, a former member of the Arkansas City debating squad. Those who went out for debate this year were Gladys Cowen. Anna Ruth Maus, Helen Ward. Selby Funk, Bill Hamilton, Milford Rawlings, and George Reynolds. Harry Skornia is the coach. The Firelight It leaps and writhes, casting grotesque shadows about the surrounding room. A sharp, white Hame will suddenly leap from the smoldering red log. Its tongue is quick as that of a snake. Small yellow points of fire dance about and on the logs, giving me the impression of demons leaping glee- fully. Now there is a flare as a log falls apart and a shower of sparks lights up the whole room, caus- ing the furniture to loom against the brightened walls. As the flare dies down a few feeble sparks cling to life. Then nothing is left but a bed of red hot coais to be reduced in time to cold gray ashes. -Nina Maurine Davis.