Mount Vernon High School - Surveyor Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Top: Debaters at a recording session to hear themselves as others hear them are Mary Jean Harris, Lilo Weihe, King Troensegaard, and Mike Skelly. Bottom: Officers of the 1956 Debate Club are, from left to right: Ray Barnes, vice-president, Mr. Bert Cohen, sponsor: John King, treasurer, Edith Petersilia, president: Ronald Keener, president of the Northern Virginia Debate League, and Kathy Meyer, secretary. Top: Debating Federal aid to higher education are, Left to Right: Kathy Gray, Kathy Meyer, Alex Korns, and Robert Yens. Bottom: Typical of study session is this shot of Judy Conk, Ronnie Keener, Ray Barnes, Mike Skelly, Evelyn Edson, Alex Korns, Robert Yens, Bonnie Graham, Edith Petersilia, and Kathy Meyer, with Mr. Cohen at his mentor's desk. Forensics and Debate

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THE 1956 DEBATE CLUB. First Row, Left to Right: Mike Skelly, Evelyn Edson, Bonnie Graham, Judy Conk, and Ronnie Keener. Second Row: Sue Paterson, Edith Petersilia, Kathy Meyer, Robert Yens, Alex Korns, John King, and Raymond Barnes. Absent are Mary Jean Harris and King Troensegaard. MR. BERT COHEN Debate Sponsor Top: A practice debate studying both sides of a controversial issue involves Bonnie Graham, Ray Barnes, Edith Petersilia, and Evelyn Edson. Bottom: Another team for the two sides of a resolution are engaged in a practice debate: John King, Sue Paterson, Ronnie Keener, and Judy Conk. FORENSIC FINALISTS FOR T955-56. Front Row, Left to Right: Bonnie Graham, Joanne Ulrick, Evelyn Edson, Kathy Gray, and Lilo Weihe. Back Row: Mike Sanford, Ronnie Keener, Sue Pater- son, and Sue Lukehart. Our Debate Club is a very active group of students who participate in panel discussions and debates on current subiects with other schools. The Debate Club does research for its arguments in the Library of Congress, followed by pizza and la sagna at Luigi's. Also, the club each year has a theater party and sponsors a trip to New York City. This year, Mount Vernon's Debate Club won both negative and affirmative arguments in all their debates along with first-place in the pre-tournament series. The first full-length debate for our students was well-received when an affirmative and negative team debated before all those of the student body who could attend in the auditorium. The Club officers are: Edith Petersilia, president, Ray Barnes, vice- president, Kathy Meyer, secretary, John King, treasurer, Ronnie Keener, president of the Northern Virginia Debate League, and Mr. Bert Cohen, sponsor. zz

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OFFICERS. Lett to Right: Margaret Munday, Flozelle Thompson, Nancy Howard, Barbara Bell, and Shirley Shepherd. MRS. MARY RUTH O'NEIL Sponsor Quill 8 Scroll The Quill and Scroll is an international honorary society for high school iournalists. Members of all high school publications are eligible to ioin if they meet the qualifications set by the Society and the publication sponsor. To ioin the Society, a student must be a Junior or Senior, in the upper third of his or her class, honest, dependable, and cooperative, doing above average work on the publication, and passed by the National Quill and Scroll. The purpose ot the Quill and Scroll is to inspire high school iournalists to do creative work of a quality satisfactory for publication. NEW MEMBERS FOR THE SURVEYOR AND INK BLOTCH. Left NEW MEMBERS FROM THE EM VEE HI STAFF. Left to Right: to Right: Sidney Thompson, Anne Flynt, Danny Kinsler, Gret Linda Robinson, Charles Coe, Jerry Kidwell, Jane Snyder, Ann Hoover, Sara Shepherd, Cynthia Ann Bennett, and Kay Wall. chen Young, Shirley Gorman, Bob Hobson, and Bob Brown Missing from picture: Nancy Pastore, and Norbert O'Hare