Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Aspirants to Demosfhenes' Role One, fwo, Hwree . . . We shall overcome . . . Hue Bears, of course. Mrs. Amefs Junior homeroom foins in a bear-ine-bears chorus. The qualify of mercy is nor drain- ed Sharon Biekman :jg Brcfners and srsfers, ie? us pray. Mr.F1em

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Oration, Persuasion, Rhetoric Train Edelweiss Ames: Speech Nelda BrisTow, Speech Rex Fleming, D b T Ch ' e a e airmen JusT aTTach This rubber band To The door and . . .' Greg Lucia and Ted SiTT cuT crepe paper Tor The door- decoraTing conTesT. FrequenTly, nervousness among sTudenTs can be explained by an aggressively- sTaTed OraTion Today , or a plainTive l'm supposed To persuade somebody To deTend The KKK. Through acTual perTormances akin To These. accompanied by candid criTicism. speech sTudenTs aT all grade levels learn The Tine arT oT oral communicaTion.. These performances are always based on a Thorough program oT insTrucTion and demonsTraTion presenTed beTorehand. I +houghT The police were The only ones who used This Thing. David Rollce and Mrs. Ames

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NFL Team 3 Ted Siif, Mike Bigger, Joe Siff, Mike Ellaby, Sieve Brake, and Rick Rozelle pose wifh Trophies won a'r 'the Bellaire Speech Tourna- menf. Lanny Smiih and Jeff Goodman proudly display a 'trophy +hey've iusl' won. Inheriis Challengep Though few Jreams have had such high siandards io live up io as Memorial's I966 speech squad, Hs members, under Mr. Rex Fleming's experienced insiruciion, have noi only mainfained buf enhanced iis fine repuia- +ion. Tournamenis ai Corpus Chrisli, Wal- irip, Baylor, Bellaire, Jones, and San Jacinio found rhe forensic Jream viciorious in such fields as senior boys' and girls' debaie, poerry reading, exiemporaneous speaking. oraiory, humorous inierpreiaiion and due? aciing. These viciories were achieved only fhrough ihe sacrifice of leisure 'rime for long hard hours of research and Safurday morn- ings speni ai' school in rehearsal.