McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS- To Ioe Egan, for winning third place in Missouri in the Fisher Body Crafts- man's Guild contest. He won twenty-five dollars and, because his coach was the best from St. Louis, the St, Louis high school trophy. MUSIC- To the Girls Glee Club, for being rated excellent at the Washington University festival. Only three of the fourteen groups entered re- ceived this rating, MISCELLANEOUS- To Mary Coates, for outspelling all other McKinley entrants in the KSD contest. To Vernon Kane, for representing McKinley in the NYA spelling contest. MCKINLEY ORATORICAL CONTEST On April 26 McKinley held its first annual Oratorical contest. The pur- pose of this contest is to stimulate a wider interest in public speaking among the students and to select one boy and one girl to represent McKinley in the St. Louis High School Oratorical Contest, sponsored by Washington Univer- sity. The contestants and their subjects were as follows: Lester Abernathy, The Demands of Increased Leisure , Zenobia Cheneviere, Pan-American Relations , Ioseph Dee, The Value of the Recall , Robert Horak, The Fight for Peace g Io Lininger, 'lThe Supreme Court Issue , Charlotte Platt, Safe- guarding American ldeals g Hilda Routburg, l'Heroes of Peace , Ruby Wray, The Need for a Change in the Supreme Court . The speakers had such excellent subject matter and such fine delivery that it was difficult for the committee of five teachers to select the winners. The final ballot gave first place for girls to Hilda Routburg, and for boys to Robert Horak. These two were chosen to represent McKinley at the Wash- ington University contest on May ll, Page Fu c

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