Dickinson State University - Prairie Smoke Yearbook (Dickinson, ND)

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First Row: Miracle. Olson, Renkc. Bruvold. Switzer. Nelson. Second Row: Hettrich, Mrs. Robinson, Muth, Wentland, Taylor. Hintz. FORUM Duane Muth, President; Genevieve Switzer, Vice-President; Donald Miracle, Secretary-Treasurer; Nell M. Robinson, Faculty Adviser. The Forum, a college forensic group, is organized to stimulate and pro- mote interest in all forms of public speaking, with special interest being given to debate. This year the Forum sponsored the first Intramural Debate Tourna- ment. In the final debate held in the assembly December 17, 1936, Duane Muth and Adrian Nelson, representing the Senior Class, defeated Donald Miracle and Wilfred Renke, Forum representatives. Other teams entered in the tournament were: Genevieve Olson and Ethel Taylor, South Hall; Walter .Jeske and Perry Bruvold, Men’s Union; David Hintz and James Lyons, Junior Class; and Zach Johnson and Joe Hettrich, Forum. The tournament stimulated much interest in debate and will be con- tinued as an annual affair. During the Winter Quarter the Forum, with the cooperation of the local theatre management, sponsored a movie to raise funds for the benefit of the debate squad. Thirty

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First Row: Bach, Dalhgren, Jewell, Miss Beilcr (Adviser), M. Bahm, Molloy, Tormaschy, Taylor. Second Row: Lautermilch, Fisher, Schuster, Langdon, Hull, Mineah, Hohman. Evenson. Erickson. Third Row: Jacober, Thorson, Lcadon, L. Johnson. Moore. I. ILindquist. M. Johnson. A. Johnson, Barstad. ART CLUB The Art Club is an organization which gives training and practice to the students who have a liking for art work and wish to cultivate their abilities. Composed of two groups, the Sketch Club and the Sculp Club, the Art Club is under the supervision of Miss Beiler, Art instructor. The members of the Sketch Club are interested in sketching from life and still life, both human and animal drawings and paintings. In addition, much emphasis is placed on the sketching of landscapes with the result that many of the local scenes have been reproduced on paper by the students. The sketches are done in oil, ink, charcoal, chalk, and pencil. Each quarter the best works are bound and placed in the library. As officers the Sketch Club elected James Jewell, President; Gladys Dahlgren, Secretary; Myrtle Mae Bahm, Treasurer; and Verlie Fisher, Historian. In the other division of the Art Club, the Sculp Club, the objects of nature are reproduced in clay rather than on paper. All ceramic produc- tions are made from the clay found in this vicinity. Among the things turned out by this Club are ash trays, book-ends, vases, busts, and statuettes of animal and human figures. All production is performed by the coil and thumb methods. The officers of the Sculp Club are: Dugalda Langdon, President; Ethel Taylor, Vice-President; Anna Johnson, Secretary; Myrtle Johnson, Treas- urer. During the week of May 21-27 an Ait Exhibit will be held in room 311, at which time the work of the Art Club will be held on display. Twenty-nine

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Perry Donald Wilfred Duane Adrian Bruvold Miracle Renke Muth Nelson DEBATE Meeting a total of twenty-six college teams all over the middle north- western parts of the United States, the 1937 Debate Squad successfully completed the most extensive campaign ever attempted by the college. The Dickinson squad, coached by Mrs. Nell M. Robinson, was composed of Adrian Nelson, Duane Muth, Wilfred Renke, Perry Bruvold, and Donald Miracle. Nelson and Muth were the only veterans on the team. On February 5th and 6th the debaters opened their season by entering the Red River Valley Tournament at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minne- sota. Each team debated seven rounds. Muth and Nelson met teams from Moorhead, Valley City, Mayville, River Falls, Wisconsin, and St. John’s University, the University of North Dakota, and Bethel Insti- tute of Minneapolis. The other team of Renke, Bruvold and Miracle met teams from Concordia, Chadron, Nebraska, University of North Dakota, Mayville, Macalester, and Augsburg, Illinois. The Dickinson teams were the only North Dakota entries in the North- west Tournament at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 1, 2, and 3. Both teams were eliminated at the end of the sixth round. Nelson and Muth defeated teams from St. Olaf, Augsburg, Morningside and St. Cloud, and lost Concordia and Luther. Renke, Miracle and Bruvold com- peted with teams from Macalester, River Falls, Wis., Eau Claire, Augus- tana, 111., Hastings, Neb., and Upper Iowa University. March 24th, the team gave an exhibition before the Dickinson Rotary Club. The season was completed by the annual radio debate over KFYR, Bismarck, on March 29. The question which was discussed through the season was: Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should be empowered to fix min- imum wages and maximum hours for industry. Both teams alternated from side to side of the question. , Thirty-one