J D Darnall High School - Sphinx Yearbook (Geneseo, IL)

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THE SPHINX . . . 1947 SPEECH H946-472 During the 1946-1947 season the speech department has had out- standing talent in all squads and has won most of the contests in which the members of speech participated. The girls, declam squads consisting of twenty girls went to Davenport, November 18. Polly Sassen, Audrey Meier, Alice Winefordner, Margaret Mohler, and Janice Smith were in the finals. Janice Smith won first in Oratory. Bob Vickroy, Bill Stamp- er, and John Ahnert ranked high in Boys' Declam. In the all school Extempore Contest, February 3 to February 20, Janice Miller won first out of 264 students who participated. Other finalists were Marvin Kleinau, Roma Hoeft, John Ahnert, Bob Vickroy, Phyllis Adams, Carol Johnson, Richard Raschke, Polly Sassen, and Elsa Burton. , The speech squad won the N.C.I.C. award February 22, by getting six firsts, four seconds, and three thirds and ten out of a possible twelve ribbons. The first place winners were D. Noble, J. Smith, J. Miller, J. Ahnert, B. Vickroy, and A. Winefordner. On March 1, Geneseo captured the District Speech Championship with five firsts and two seconds. The advanced dramatics class also won a second place with the play Jazz and Minuetf' At the N.C.I.C. dramatic festival at DeKalb, March 8, Geneseo pre- sented a one act play, The Neighbors. D. Noble and J. Smith were selected to be in an All Star cast while S. Nitz and J. Miller were named as understudies. Geneseo won the Class A school award for total participation, and Janice Miller and Delores Nobel qualified for the state finals in extempore and verse respectively. The debaters tied for third, and the play Jazz and Minuetl' also won third place. J. Ahnert and A. Winefordner each won a fourth place, C. Johnson, a fifth, and Smith a sixth. The Varsity debaters were M. Kleinau, G. Torreyson, affirmative, with R. Hoeft as alternate, and J. Miller and R. Raschke, negative, with P. Adams as alternate. At Geneseo on December 9, and at Burlington, Iowa, January 18 our group won six out of eight debates. At Augustana, February 7-8, they won five out of twelve. Twenty-four schools were entered at Sterling, February 15, in Conference Debate, the debaters won four out of six and second place. In Mendota, March 15, at Sectional they tied for third place. 20