Creston High School - Saga Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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SPEECH Students of freston have shown an in- tense interest in the speech department this year and an unusually large nuniber turned out for the annual declamation, oration and extemporc contests. Entering in the deelaination contest were Betty Church, Mary Mastenbrook, Grace Sopcr and Ruth Van Dyke. Grace Soper's presentation of Jane Addams won her the honor of representing Creston in the sub-district contest held at Creston April 6. There she placed first and en- tered the district contest at Lansing on May ek. Here she won second place. In the oratory division, open to the eleventh and twelfth grades, the seniors alone decided to try their luck. Under the direction of Miss Lois Conrad, speech in- structor, Helen Bruce, Thomas Chulski, Lois Steed and Nellie Voshol presented their orations. Lois Steed gave her win- ning oration, Let's Go to VVar,' at the district contest. Robert Budlong was Creston's repre- sentative in the extempore division at the sub-district contest. DEBATE And l f u r t h e r maintain that the United States should form an alliance with Great Britain, declared the affirma- tion in the last debate of the season with Ottawa. ltesolved: That the United States should form an alliance with Eng- land, was the question discussed by the students under the supervision of Mr. Merle Dawson, debate coach at Creston. Margaret Blyinier, Robert Bud- long, and .lune Cowdin. represent- ing the negative, succumbed to their opponents at Central in the first de- bate of the season. ln the second negative clash Margaret Blyinier's position w a s t a k e n b y Eileen Toenges and they were defeated by St. Joseph. Robert Bndlong, .lunc Cowdin, and Tom Dempster upheld the affir- mative against Muskegon, losing to them -1- to 1. Against Ottawa they brought forth a two-to-one decision.

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