O Gorman High School - Knight Legend Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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Six in terpers take first at sta te This year under the coaching and leadership of Miss Spelts, O'Gorman had a person in every division of the state oral interp contest. Mary Ellen Doyle with humorous, Pat Lalley with prose, Jeanne Barnett with poetry, Matt Norris with oratory, Kevin McClus- key with dramatic, and Jeff Barnett teaming up with Rita Kane, for duet-acting, made up the fine group of interpers. The O'G students left the judges spellbound at both the divisional, and state contests. Seven students went into Augustana divisional contest filled with fear and anxiety, and about eight hours later, seven came out Hlled with joy and pride. Then, at the state contest, O'Gorman received super- iors in all but one division. The YY. O'Gorman interpers can be thought of as a family, which could be seen at any of the contests. When one wins, everyone congratulates each other and when one loses, everyone consoles each other. The interpers act as a team. The divisional and state con- tests make up only a small portion of the total contests they attended. Others include, Springfield contest, The Silver Bowl, Clear Lake Invita- tional, Midwest Tournament Invita- tional, Washington Warrior Invita- tional, and the NFL Contest. At the Springfield Contest, Jeanne Randall and Janelle Ranek took first, Karol O'Connor and Laura Buckwalter took seconds, and Nancy Gellerman took a third. At the Midwest Tournament Invitational, Mary Ellen Doyle took home a third in humorous. At the Washington Warrior Invitational, Jeanne Ran- dall, Mary Ellen Doyle and Theresa Brunetti all placed. At the Clear Lake Invitational, Jeanne Barnett took a third, Kevin McCluskey and John Richardson took a first, Rita Kane took a fourth, Kevin McClus- key took a second, Jeanne Randall took a third, and Karol O'Connor took a first. Also, Pat Lalley and Mary Ellen Doyle did well at the Silver Bowl. Another very impor- tant contest, the NFL, included winners Pat Lalley, Karol O'Connor, Jeanne Barnett, and Rita Kane. 89

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Complexity may be the key to winning a debate. Debate: lvl to discuss opposing points: to deliberate, consider: the act of debating. A simple enough definition, sounds like a slack activity, huh? Well, looks can be deceiving. Not any simple-minded person can be in debate. You need a complicated vocabulary, patience, and a mouth that is ready to express ideas, which all of O'Gorman's debators truly exemplify. Debate has four different areas: extemporaneous, oratory, tradition- al debate, and Lincoln-Douglass debate. Extemporaneous means un- rehearsed or impromptu. In this category, you draw out a topic on a current event and do your darndest to win. At the Washington Inv., Liz Piersol took 5th place and 1st at the divisional, while, Jenny Luke took 2nd at Madison. 88 The definition, of memorized speech, fits the category of oratory. In this category, Tami Domeyer took 5th in the divisionals and 5th at the Lincoln Silver Bowl. Traditional debate, what we all picture in our minds, pits two people against two others in a furious, somewhat planned out battle. ln this category, Liz Piersol and Tami Domeyer took 9th at the Midwes- tern Invitational and at the Univer- sity of Nebraska Tourney, while Nancy Hobson and Anna Sochocky placed 5th at the divisionals. Other honors in this category include: Laura Tam and Yoli Zepeda taking second place in speaker points at Lincoln Nebraska and Kathy Harris and Karen VanBuskirk remained undefeated in novice debate at Lincoln. The last Douglas debate, pit one-on-one with category, Lincoln- prepared defenses. This category, Jenny Luke broke into the semi- finals at the Midwestern Tourney. All in all, the debate team ended a very accomplishing season under the coaching of Steve Sim- mons and Cindy Ahrendt. Clockwise starting below: Jenny Luke takes a break from examining a new case . . . Laura Tam searches hurriedly in the files before a big tourney . . . Coach Sarah Spelts gives a couple of pointers to her lnterpers . . . Divisional oral interp winners: first row: Pat Lalley, as Rikki Tikki Tavi, Kevln McCluskey with his piece, Flowers for Algernon, Jeanne Barnett with MacBeth, Rita Kane and Jeff Barnett as a young couple in love: second row: Matt Norris with the Gideon Knot, and Mary Ellen Doyle as a dingy waitress. f n v e rf, .3-I ' -1

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