George C Marshall High School - Columbian Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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f Winner of first place. Girls' Extemporaneous Speaking competition, Jane Dawkins chats with a member of another team while David Sands concentrates in the background. 43

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Not really an established organization at Marshall, the Forensics team nevertheless made a good showing at the District Meet. Competing in Prepared Speaking, Extemporaneous Speaking, Prepared Prose, Poetry Reading and Spelling, the team came away with one first and two third place awards. Unlike other years, enough interest was shown to make some preliminary matches necessary, since only one per-.on from each school was allowed to compete in each category. These matches were scheduled for after school the week before the meet, but because of missing school due to snow, the matches had to be combined with the last rehearsals before the January competition. On the rainy Saturday morning of the 25th the Forensics team and their sponsor, Mrs. Janice Howell, arrived at Langley. After registering, the members went to their respective rooms for the competition, which was then followed by a lengthy wait for the announcement of the judge's decision. Marshall was well represented in the list of winners and a general feeling of success was the result. Helen Macdonald, John McMorris, and Tiare Wilson jest to relieve the tension of waiting for the final decision from the judges. Linda Schoumacher, Ellen Murphree and David Sands sit silently watching during the last elimination match. 42

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Girls can dribble SWAN — Support Women's Athletics Now! Humanities classes studying communications wound up the semester with the study of the effects of Mass communication. They planned a simulation to study the effect of large-scale promotion of an activity on the student body. Since it was the middle of the basketball season, girl's basketball was a logical selection — here was a talented and successful group of girls who had thus far received little or no attention. SWAN was born. The students in all three classes worked on posters, signs and buttons that kept the student body mystified as to their meaning. The actual game against W-L on February 24 was never mentioned in the PA announcements or on the posters, during the major part of the campaign. The game had been scheduled to be held in the main gym, but snow interferred with practices, and it was finally held in the auxiliary gym. The 100-plus spectator turnout was probably the largest ever for any of Marshall's girls sports teams. It was also very exciting as the Stateswomen took control of the game from the start, to win with a 41 point spread, 61-20. too’ Betsy Bailey signals the beginning of another offensive play. In the closing moments of a tight home game, Claudia Griffith and Chadene Payne attempt to block a W-L field goal. 44