Latter Day Saints Business College - S Book Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Junior College N View of the fact that all for this year at the begi we're inexperienced, the L. D. feel any great disappointmen silver loving cup which the J. last year. The coaches, John t Draper Smith, were well pleas effort and the diligent work 0 SYLVIA D. SMITH . , The question for Junior Resolved: That the Nations Should Adopt a Plan of ment except for Such Forces as Are Necessary for Police Jacobsen and Carter Jones upheld the affirmative side and Louis Judges made up the negative team. Leo with both sides. Practice contests were held with Snow College, X versity of Utah freshmen. No decision was made in The first scheduled meet took placezagainst Dixie Colle the latter a slight margin over the L. D. S. in both th negative arguments. This loss put our representative for the league championship. Throughout the year the squad members upheld Saint institution in a creditable manner. Coach Gubler has directed L. D. S. debaters for It has been through his eHorts that this valuable form ment has come into prominence at our school. Not c lege, but the High School students appreciate the w assistants, Mrs. Smith and Miss Lambert, have so corn JACOBSEN JUDGES Mg 1 14 gm- CDebating f the Junior College nning of the season S. students need not t at the loss of the C. contestants won 3. Gubler and Sylvia ed with the untiring f the creators. College debate was: Complete Disarma- Purposes. Dorothy Frankey Richards ne Bunot alternated Weber, and the Uni- 1ny of these debates. ge. The judge gave e afErmative and the out of the running the standards of the a number of years. of student develope nly the Junior C01- ork that he and his mendably put forth. RICHARDS

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Competitive Speech PEECH is the index of the mind. It is an essential factor of success. The L. D. S. has provided an unusual speech department under the supervision of Margaret Caldwell, assisted by Bessie Jones and Frank McGhie. During the year two oratorical contests have been con- ducted. The Grant Oration was one of them. This year the subject was: iiWhy Observe the Law of Tithing. From the participants in the semiufinals, four were chosen. Merlyn Porter represented the Business College; Grant Webb, the Junior Col- lege; and Dennis McCarthy and Edna Boyle, the Seniors. Be- cause of the excellent quality of their speeches, Grant Webb and Dennis McCarthy were chosen winners; Merlyn Porter and Edna Boyle were given second place. Beautiful leather-bound copies of the Book of Mormon were awarded to McCarthy and Webb. In the preliminary tryouts of the National Oratorical Con- test more than fifty students competed. Of these, fifteen were chosen. Then ten were eliminated and from the remaining five, three finalists were selected. Sam Thurman, a Senior, won out over the other contestants, Florence Derrick and Dennis Mc- Carthy. In the district tryouts, Sam made a splendid record. He was placed as alternate. Because of his high scholarship, his ability as a speaker, and his participation in school activities, Sam was chosen vale- dictorian of the Senior Class. The variety of phases treated in competitive speech at the L. D. S. assures continued interest in this activity. MCCARTHY THURMAN DERRICK swat 1 13 gem-

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High School Debating HE high school debating teams, under the , careful tutelage of John G. Gubler and Lucille Lambert, upheld the traditions of the Saint institution in a creditable manner throughout the past season. An appropriate question for seasonal discussion was carefully selected. The proposition was: uRe- solved: .That the State School Compulsory Age Limit be LOwered from Eighteen to Sixteen Years. Those who upheld the aermative were Alma Clark, Beatrice Jensen, and Florence Gubler. The negative group consisted of Lenore Weggeland, Richard Cahoon, and Paul Badger. LUCILLE LAMBERT Several practice arguments were held at the beginning of the season. Those who provided competition for the Saints in these meets were Amerie can Fork and Davis High Schools. These contests provided valuable assist- ance to the team members and aided considerably in developing the students for league competition. Although the L. D. S. orators lost out in the first round of the district debates, they presented themselves in an excellent manner. Profiting from their past experience, the members of the afflrmative and negative teams were shifted and the Saints emerged victors in the second contest. Those who competed with the Church institution in the district were Park City and Weber High Schools. The final standing of the teams at the close of the season read: Park City, three; L. D. 8., two; and Weber, one. This exceptional group of debaters has accomplished a great deal in the furtherance of this activity. WEGGELAND JENSEN CAHOON ea 115 Ee-