Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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..V'N Vs w 11 w.’yiNwimyx.. DANIEL B. HELLER Daniel Boone Heller is a man whom every Wesleyanite is proud to have known, not only because of the great honor which he brought to himself and his college, but because the success which he has achieved was accomplished under almost overwhelming difficulties. Mr. Heller spent eight years at Iowa Wesleyan, graduating from the Academy in 1908 and from the College in 1912. During these years it was his privilege to both hear and take part in many forensic battles. A year previous to “Dan’s” enrollment as a Freshman in College, Mr. Karl Krenmyre won first honors for Wesleyan in the State Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Contest. While the excitement of the victory was at its highest a strong desire grew within him, and Heller decided then and there that during his four years in college he would leave nothing undone which might make it possible for him to bear the Purple and White to a similar victory. With practically no experience as a public speaker, and seriously handicapped by an impediment in his speech, he resolutely set his eye upon the coveted goal and began work. In order to augment what little natural aptitude for public platform work lie possessed, Mr. Heller not only competed in the many local oratorical and debating contests, but also made lecturing tours each winter to adjoining towns. In this way he added materially to his knowledge of platform mastery, which in the end was to win for him his long wished for goal and repay his efforts. In the local contest Mr. Heller was chosen to represent his school in the Eastern District. Here again his oration “Public Opinion” and his forceful and convincing delivery won for him first honors over eight other college orators. Having successfully gained two of the three desired steps to oratorical fame, he began with a new determination to prepare for the State Contest where he was to meet the fifteen strongest college orators of Iowa. The final contest was a fierce one, but when the last orator had left the rostrum and the last echoes of the battle had died away, the judges announced for a third time that Heller was again on top, Iowa’s best orator. '-X V §vi I ftmmvvA''

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 iForcttstrs As We Look Back Iowa Wesleyan has just closed another most successful season in the realm of forensic art. Although a number of valuable veterans were lost by graduation last year, new recruits have stepped into their places and have admirably upheld the splendid record of the old school. In oratory she has gained a reputation highly enviable. From each of the last two State Intercollegiate Contests, she has carried away first honors, a thing which in most colleges is rarely witnessed by one student generation. She now holds the undisputed title of having won first rank more often than has any other college in Iowa. In addition to winning first, old I. W. C. has taken high positions any number of times. It has been rather difficult to obtain a record of the State Contests earlier than 1892. However, we offer this partial list of oratorical victories. 1875 Clay B. Whitford........Beta Theta Pi........Represented I. W. U. in State. 1876 Clay B. Whitford .......Beta Theta Pi........Represented I. W. U. in State. 1879 Edwin F. Kauffman......Phi Delta Theta.......Represented I. W. U. in State. 1S80 Parkf, W. Kauffman ....Phi Delta Theta.......Represented I. W. U. in State. 1881 Parke W. Kauffman ....Phi Delta Theta.......Represented I. W. U. in State. 1883 Samuel Craver ..........Phi Delta Theta......Second Place in State 1885 John F. Riggs...........Phi Delta Theta......Second Place in State 1887 Edwin S. Havigiiurst ....Phi Delta Theta......Represented I. W. U. in State 1889 John Newsome.................................. Represented I. W. U. in State 1892 Scott Alva Power........Beta Theta Pi........Represented I. W. U. in State 1893 Scott Alva Power........Beta Theta Pi........Represented I. W. U. in State 1894 Hiram T. Robinson ............................Represented I. W. U. in State 1895 Chas. P. Frantz.........Phi Delta Theta.......Placed in the State 1897 George J. Smith ........Phi Delta Theta......Second Place in State 1898 Chas. N. Pace...........Phi Delta Theta......Second Place in State 1S99 Nelson Drue Wells.......Phi Delta Theta.......Represented I. W. U. in State 1900 Thomas Osborn ................................Second Place in State 1901 N. c™ .....Beta Tlieta Pi........) ££? 1902 Glenn Mitchell..........Beta Theta Pi.........FIRST PLACE in the State 1904 Frank M. Beaty ...............................Third Place in the State 1905 Henry Meunster ...............................Second Place in State 190S Karl Krenmyre...........Phi Delta Theta.......FIRST PLACE in the State 1909 Oscar Schwif.ring ............................Sixth Place in the State 1910 Edward Stodghili..............................Sixth Place in the State 1911 Harry Wishard ..........Phi Delta Theta......Sixth Place in the State 1912 Clarendon Havinghurst. .Sigma Kappa Zeta......Third Place in the State 1913 Daniel B. Heller .......Sigma Phi Epsilon...FIRST PLACE in the State iqi i xTpmpr o- t i' ip i (FIRST PLACE in the State 1914 SMNUS1 Newel:...........Sigma PH. Epsilon...{ Represented L W. C. in Iatawtate. In debate, Wesleyan students are renowned throughout the middle west. This year we are debating in a triangular with Simpson and Upper Iowa Colleges. The Sophomore team meets the Monmouth College second year representatives, and the Freshmen are hoping to defeat the Knox Freshmen in a dual contest. The Forensic outlook for next year is so promising that the “ Mother of Iowa Colleges’’ is confidently expecting to add many more victories to her forensic annals. A Vkr( - X Sy L 1 j j-rTTJjj JT n n s'

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 STANLEY NEWELL Tho Croaker should have assigned a special reporter to keep track of all the victories and contests with which Stanley has been connected during the past three years. He has skipped around over the state from one “speak-fest” to another and each time after all the “fuss and fume” has cleared away, we see him emerging from the scene with a new forensic honor for old Iowa Wesleyan. In his freshman year, he was leader of his class debating team, which met the strong Simpson freshmen. As a Sophomore he led the intercollegiate debating team to victory in the triangular debate, also with Simpson. However, it was not until the fall of 1913 that he entered the field of oratory. His thorough analysis of subject and straightforward presentation easily won for him the local oratorical contest, a distinction which every student covets. Later in competing with the eight strong colleges of eastern Iowa, he was awarded fourth place, a still greater honor. But it was in the State Contest that Mr. Newell especially distinguished himself for there he met the most powerful orators from fifteen different Iowa colleges. And yet in spite of such competition, he conclusively proved to the judges that Wesleyan again had the strongest orator in all the colleges of Iowa. Before the publication of the ’15 Croaker, Mr. Newell will have represented us in the Interstate Oratorical Contest, which this year will be held at Earlham College, Ind. We feel confident that our representative will rank very high in the final markings and that he will bear the interest of the Purple and White with credit both to himself and to Wesleyan. s