University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Donald Smith Glen Borden C, T. Ryan Charles Gass J. Clark Weaver George Henigan J. D. Hansen Carl Frame» Pi Kappa Delta Dedicated to the advancement of forensics, the Nebraska Zeca chapter of Pi Kappa Delta completed its most active season this spring when it entertained representatives of seven colleges at the provincial tour name nr and convention of Nebraska and Colorado. The local chapter of the National Honorary Forensic fraternity, America’s largest honorary group, introduced two inovations to forensica at Kearney this year, when it sponsored both an international debate and a high school invitational debate tournament. In December, the speech group brought two British debaters to Kearney and sponsored a meeting between the University of London men, David Scholes and JL Hirshfield, who were the leading debaters of Great Britain’s student union, and the Kearney team, George Henigan and Don Smith. More than seven hundred students and townspeople came to the inter- national argument which concerned the nationalization of munitions. Nearly fifty students from high schools within a radius of one hundred miles from Kearney, attended the Pi Kappa Delta invitational meet on February 9. The success of this first tournament has encouraged the forensic group to lay plans for making such a competition am annual event at Kearney. While sponsoring such meetings, members of the local chapter were also active in inter-collegiate forensics, participating in the practice tournament of the Nebraska forensics association, the Hutchinson, Kansas College tournament and a meeting with Oregon’s Pacific University debaters. Kearney’s “A” debate team placed forth among eleven colleges in the competition. Ending the season, the forensic fraternity sponsored rhe first major debate tournament ever held at Kearney, when the Pi Kappa Delta provincial meet was conducted here. With the national Pi Kappa Delta president, George McCarty, in attendance, this tournament, considered one of the strongest in America on a basis of the records of the colleges competing proceeded with a maximum of smoothness. Hastings College won the sweepstakes award. Kearney men’s A debate team losr a chance to oppose Hastings in the finals when it was eliminated by the Nebraska Wesleyan A” team in a semi-final encounter. Socially, the forensic group was also active, holding two dinners during the course of the year’s work and sponsoring two all-college dances. Don Smith Glen Borden George Henigan Pag» Twenty-nine ... President Vice President Executive Secretary

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Sigma Tau Delta If students arc to write successfully, they need stimulation and encouragement. To provide these, Xi Beta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English fraternity, was organized with Mr. C. T. Ryan as sponsor. Since that time the chapter has sought to provide constant incentives for students interested in creative writing. Each year freshman writers are given an opportunity to submit essays to be judged by the local organization. It is indeed remarkable that so many freshmen take advantage of this opportunity and produce material of such high literary merit. This year there was an especially large amount of creditable material submitted. Willard Nyquist of Axtell won the first prize for his essay, The Unhandy Man,” and Charles Hanson of Loomis won second place with his essay, Cats.” At the beginning of this year there were only two active members in the fraternity, Genevieve Keenan, who was formerly the editor of The Antelope, and Ralph Fortna, the editor of last year’s Antler. Bryce Newman, Royal Henline, Stanley Johnson. Margaret Murray, Wanda Jeanne Baxter, Doris Wright, and Ardis Olsen become members at the first initiation ceremony. At the end of the second quarter the active membership was increased to eleven by the initiation of Miriam Freridis and Juanita Lang. Besides sponsoring the freshman essay contest. Sigma Tau Delta is this year publishing the second number of a campus literary magazine, The Antler,” for which any student may sub- mit his work, be it short stories, long stories, essays, poems, or just plain verse. All students are invited to do creative writing for this magazine. The outstanding event of the year was the customary Christmas dinner, which was attended by alumni as well as active members. The speaker of the evening was Mr. Ryan, who talked about The Creative Mind in a Mechanistic World,” a challenge to all young writers. At the last meeting of this school year, the members of Sigma Tau Delta were entertained at the Ryan home at a breakfast. Ralph Fortna -—--— President Doris Wright Viet President Stanley Johnson Treasurer K. Fort rut, Mary Crawford, George Martin. Calvin T. Ryan, JL Clark Weaver. G. Keenan. W, Baxter, R. Hcnline. S, Johnson, M Murray, S. Newman, A. Olsen, D. Wright. Page Twenty-eight

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 Top Rev—‘E. Nelson, E, Albrecht. E. Barton. E. Brown. R, Brown, C. Franzen. First Row—-H. Graf. R. Henline. E, Jacobson. G. Keenan, G. Richardson, H Smith. D. Wright, Theatre Arts League Whatever might be lacking in quantity in the college dramatic organization (there are about twelve active members) is more than made up for in the qualiry of the members. You see, in order to become a member of T. A. L„ you must have forty merits; these honor points arc given to those participating in, writing, or producing plays. Naturally only those who are truly interested in dramatics are willing to juggle scenery, slap on make-up, and do the thousand and one other things to make a play a success. Consequently those few willing ones constitute the promoters of dramatics in our college. Last October (somewhere near Hallowe'en) a very secret, very scarey, very solemn initiation took place in the loft of a local barn. Edith Albrecht, Erselia Barton, Ortho Ebright, Royal Henline, Wilfred Tressider, and Woodrow Wirsig were the neophytes who, upon that occasion, became Thespians. Theater Arts has furnished the ushers for the lyceum numbers sponsored! by the school; it has sponsored play writing contests; it has held open meetings; it has also held tryouts and furnished material for the one act play production class. A pot luck dinner was held at Mrs, Barton’s home in March; it was then that we learned that '’Budge” Ebright could scallop potatoes like nobody else, and that George Richardson had a heretofore un- known ability for whipping cream. Theater Arts sponsored the production of Comedy of Errors” given several times this year. Below, is a picture of one of the sets used in that play. COMEDY OF ERRORS. Pag Thi