Springfield High School - Resume Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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Q WE N E. W debate coach, inexperienced debaters, and several other negative factors caused a pessimistic attitude toward the debating teams at the beginning of the year, but after their first engagements the teams came through with flying colors. The new debate coach, who has done much fine work with the teams, is Mr. Paul ,QUMJI Mitchum. Since this is Mr. Mitchum's first year at high school, he knew nothing about the characters and personalities of the pros- pective debatersg however, he was soon able to discriminate between good and bad mate- rial for the teams. Aside from his duties as debate coach, he teaches social science and all students who come under his supervision attest to the fact that he is an excellent instructor. The main problem that baffled Mr. Mitchum was the fact that there were few students who had any previous debating ex- perience. He decided that the most likely field to choose from was the home room de- baters. Any student wishing to do so was allowed to participate in home room debating and each of these students was eligible for one fi, of the debate teams if he was in the debating class. After carefully considering the contest- ants, Mr. Mitchum chose the members for the first team. The three main qualities required of any applicant were speaking ability, research ability, and dependability. I'.x1'i. Xl. xll'l'L'Hl'3l 'F CH NRLI-QS lilirrsslilil-1I l'Z SAM Ilicxm When the first debate of the season was Hlixm, I,,,Nmx NURWIX YUFFH. scheduled, a first team had not definitely been decided upon: therefore, some debaters went to Coffeyville, Kansas, and others to Columbia, Missouri, on December 3-4. Afterward the team attended debates in the following cities: Joplin on january I3, where it won third place: Ft. Scott on January 20: Cabool on February 3-4, and won first place, West Plains on February I0-ll and again won first place: Bolivar on February 24- Z5 and won second place in the B division: and Liberty, Missouri. where it entered the Missouri District of National Forensic League and won the championship for the Springfield district. ln Lexington, Missouri, the team tied for third place in the Wentworth interstate Tournament. The team will go to Beverly Hills, California, on june I9 to enter the National Forensic League. The first team was composed of Henry Duncan, Norwin Yoffie, Charles Grosslcreutz, and John Hoey, with Sam Dickey acting as substitute. Other debaters were Mary Burns, lna Mae Robertson, Mary Jeanne McCann, Virginia Griffin, Richard Stolp. jimmy Brown, Roy Tiller, Ted Ginsburg, Vernon Smith, Bob Hartsock, Paul Moore. and June Cave. 107

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X Q is-Q dll O31 10, GAIN this year lVlr. David 0. Sherman is the 5 ,s ' i I' ' Director of Oratory at Senior High School. Since lVlr. Sherman has so many duties as the Senior class sponsor, he has turned some of his duties over to Mr. Paul Mitchum, Debate Coach. lVlr. Sherman is well liked by all the students because of his friendly attitude ,l1m1m'I1Iwwx and pleasing personality. He has proved to be a most capable and efficient instructor and Oratory Coach. Mr. Sherman was one of the committee who chose Jimmy Brown to represent high school. He also pre- sented the winning student in Oratory with the Oratory prize during class day exercises. Jimmy Brown has a family standard as well as a school responsibility to uphold while he is in Senior High School. He is following in the footsteps of two brothers who preceded him in S. H. S. Both brothers were championship debaters. We firmly believe that jimmy will uphold both traditions as well as win honors for S. H, S. ' At the beginning of the school year, any student who wished to participate in the oratorical division was given a chance to do so. Every student participating memorized a speech of any length. These speeches I,u.H,U. Smlmqw could be copied from some book or magazine or could 1'...mi be original in composition. Each student gave his speech before several judges in the first tryout. From this group the three best speakers were selected. These three then wrote their own speeches of 900 to l5O0 words and participated in the second tryout. From these three contestants the best speaker was chosen. This student represented Senior High School for the year. This year jimmy Brown was winner of the tryouts. He won first place in the oratorical contest at State Teachers College. ln the Missouri District of the National Forensic League at Liberty, Missouri, he also won first place. ln june, when the debaters go to Beverly Hills, California, Jimmy Brown will enter the Oratorical division of the contest. We have sincere confidence in jimmy's success in this event. 106

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