Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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wi 'T' ' ' c I. . k- . ,, I-Y -55'7f'4-I . lvlar'rin Pulich Gregg PhiTer Perhaps The mosT inconsisTenT oT Those who represenTed The P. S. A. This pasT year was The sophomore duo oT lvlarTin Pulich and Gregg PhiTer. ConsisTenTly deTeaT- ing The besT compeTiTion on The PaciTic coasT, They losT iusT as consisTenTly To The worsT. STarTing well aT BakersTield. They losT ouT To U. S. C. only in The Tinal debaTe oT The TournamenT. In PaciTic's iunior college TournamenT They dropp-ed Tour ouT oT six debaTes againsT relaTively weak compeTiTion. In exTemporaneous speaking The debaTe colleagues Tied Tor Third place. Going norTh To l.inTield wiTh This unenviable record, PhiTer and Pulich proceeded To win seven ouT oT Ten debaTes againsT The besT compeTiTion available. Pulich also disTinguished himselT by qualiTying Tor The semi-Tinals in exTemporaneous speaking. AT The Redlands TournamenT Tor junior colleges Pulich made The Tinals. Dropping only Two hard-luck debaTes in The local Pi Kappa DelTa TournamenT secTion B, They seemed on The way up- again. ln ThaT TournamenT PhiTer won second place in exTemporaneous speaking. Turning easTward To The Phi Rho Pi inviTaTional TournamenT in Norman, Oklahoma, The Two boys dropped halT Their debaTes. BoTh qualiTied Tor The semi-Tinals in exTem- poraneous speaking, buT neiTher could go TarTher. The NaTional STudenT Congress oT Pi Kappa DelTa occupied Their Time aT Topeka. The women's sophomore varsiTy Team oT ChrisTina Vanden Akker and Gladys BarTholomew made an excellenT record. Their TirsT noTable success was in PaciTic's junior college TournamenT, where They losT TirsT place by a Two-To-one decision. Bar- Tholomew won second place in exTempore. AT The Redlands TournamenT They losT ouT in The quarTer-Tinals. ln secTion B oT The Pi Kappa DelTa inviTaTional BarTholomew again Tinished second in exTempore. 7

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C STarTing her drive Toward The Top in The opening TournamenT aT Bakersicield, Hancock won second place in eXTernlOOre and Tirsjr in deba+e. AT Linfield she again Tailed by a narrow margin To bring peek The Tirgf pleee epdfempere Cup, Finally, in The Far WesT lnviTaional pf Pi Keppe DelTa, She Came Through wiTh a unanimous TirsT place raTing in The Final round Tp keep The C0veTecl Trophy aT home. The climax OT TWSF GTTorTs was reached aT The naTionals, where she placed second in a Tield oT sixTy-Tour, LasT year Doris l-lanCOCk COl'T1k3lneCT wiTh Marie Nichols To win The cham- pionship OT Phi Rho Pi. IUFITOF COHSQS honor Torensic socieTy. This year They COr'1TinUeCl Their winning WGYS wiTh TTTVGG sTraighT vicTories over U. S. C. To Take TirsT place aT BakersTield. AT l.inTield They losT only Two dSbaTes ouT oT Twelve, buT Tound Those enough To drop Them behind P6S6ClGna. ln STockTon They Tinished Third. and The low ebb oT Their I937-38 season came aT Topeka wiTh an even spliT in eighT debaTes. PresidenT Louis Sandine had as his colleague This year on The men's var- siTy Team, PresidenT-elecT Erwin Farley. Traveling over Ten Thousand miles represenTing The College oT The PaciTic, They gained honor Tor Their insTiTu- Tion and renown Tor Themselves. AT Bakersifield They Tinished in a Three-way Tie Tor Third place, losing Twice To U. S. C. l.inTield Tound Them wiTh an enviable record oT seven wins ouT oT Ten debaTes. Four vicTories ouT oT six Tailed To carry Them beyond The pre- liminaries in The PaciTic TournamenT. AT Topeka The varsiTy broke even in The eighT rounds. ATTer making The semi-Tinals in exTempore aT BakersTield and l.inTield, Farley barely Tailed To make The semi-Tinals in The naTionals. T661

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Top row: Grifl'iThs, Russel, Biddick CenTer: Miller, Barfholemew, KienTz FronT: Vanden Akkef Bill Biddick was The sole freshman squad-member This year. ColloboraT- ing wiTh Trevor GriTfiThs in Bakersfield, he succeeded in making The finals of The iunior college division. AT Redlands he and Bill Russell dropped only Two ouT of six. Russell came Through To win The firsT place exTempore Trop-hy for STockTon J. C. Biddick qualified for The semi-finals in exTempore in The home TournamenT. Jean Miller and l-larrieT KienTz compeTed as a Team aT Bakersfield. BoTh enTered exTemporaneous speaking and oraTory There and aT The home Tourna- menT Miller placed Third in oraTory in secTion B of The Pacific Province TournamenT. Individual debaTes Through The year found The College of The Pacific meeT- ing many ouTsTanding Teams from WesTern UniTed STaTes. San Francisco STaTe, The American Bankers lnsTiTuTe, NorThwesT Nazarene College, STanford, and WhiTman were among Those To drop decisions To Pacific debaTers. OThers meT in non-decision discussions included Texas Technological College, Univer- siTy of San Francisco, Nevada, ST. lviary's, The UniversiTy of Wyoming, and SeaTTle Pacific. This year's debafe program included also several appearances before local service clubs and oTher groups. Combined wiTh The exTensive parTicipa- Tion in individual debafes and in six maior Tournamenfs. The forensic season of I937-38 was The largesT ever underfaken by The Pacific STudenT AssociaTion. T681 J