Lima Central High School - Annual Mirror Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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ninety six Barmlt liruzeltuii Cutter DeVoe X Ii 1-. Debate RIiSOI.X'1ED: Thu! at least Hfttf per cent of all stale and local taxes should be tlerz't'etl from sources other than ltlfltllllltl property. FNTRAL High School's debate squad. member of the Ohio State Debate ing League for the last six vears. achieved first honors in its debate district by maintaining a clean slate. Unfortunately. however. our team was defeated in its first debate in the state championship elimination trials by Columbus East. which later won second place in the state in the league. On January lZ our affirmative team. debating at home. won a victory over Libertv Center. Our affirmative speakers were Mary Cutter. Bill Mereness. Merrill DeVoe. and Gene Heil, alternate, Our negative team. composed of Ann Brazelton. NVilliam Barndt. Kent Leach. and XVarren Lewis. alternate. defeated Marion Harding. at Marion. on the same day. Bluffton. state champions of the league in 1932. met defeat at the hands of our negative team on the evening of January 26. in Central's auditorium. while the same evening our affirmative team traveled to Ciibsonburg and scored a victory. On the evening of February 2 our affirmative speakers won their third successive competition by defeating Fostoria. Our negative team, scheduled to debate Upper Sandusky the same evening. won its decision by forfeit. Thus Central had a clean slate. having won all of her debates. However, up to this time Fremont was also undefeated. but. fortunately for Central, was eliminated from further competition in the Ohio State Debate League by Gibsonburg. Therefore the Central high school debate squad gained first place in the second district of the league. Having won this honor. our debate team prepared to enter the state elimination contests. in which the winners of the eleven league districts participated. Our negative team. composed of Merrill DeVoe. Bill Barndt, and Kent Leach lost to the affirmative team of Columbus East high school at Columbus. on the afternoon of March Z. This defeat. the first of the season.