Waterloo West High School - Wahawk Yearbook (Waterloo, IA)

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tt? JOHN CORSON , A ,, , , iQ ' x ' 't MERLE FRANCIS .,X ' EARL LONDON NEGATIVE Corson's delivery, and in fact, his whole attitude is calm, clear, and convincing and is very effective in opening the negative. ,lohn's manner and the context of his speech are interesting and far from dry. He is not in the least bom- bastic, but is very conversational, and instead of talking at his audience, talks with them. Corson avoids dry statistics, but employs real facts, presented clearly, to refute points. His much reading on the subject has aided him to be more logical. John tried debating this year for the tirst time, and is only a sophomore. Francis, a Junior, with his explosive style of delivery, com- mands immediate attention of all present. with his opening words. ln the course of his speech, he uses many examples. drawing word pictures. describing the horrors of anything proposed by the affirmative. Merle injects into a gab con- test the element which distinguishes a real debate from a social gathering. He is antagonistic enough to stir up the opposition and keep the contest interesting. His rebuttals are just as full of tire as his main speeches. This is lXIerle's second year of first-team debating. London's make-up as a debater, contained a unusual amount of pep and snap. He was neg. captain and third speaker. Earl puts his whole being into his debating, and consequently con- trolled the audience to the extent that they laughed at his sarcasm, smiled at his determination, and kept absolutely si- lent while he stated his plan. London is wide-awake, alert, witty, and firmly believes that Military training should not be adopted. Earl was a game little scrapperf' this being his second year at the game. and also the year of his grad- uation. He was a whirlwind and never failed to secure de- eisions. W Page one lmndred and eleven

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Interclass Debating Something new in XYest High activities was exhibited this year-Interclass Debating. The idea behind the plan was to give more people practical experience in debate work and to serve more or less. as a developer of talent for the regular debate team. Tryouts were held in the various classes to determine the four best debaters. the first three to do the actual debating. and the fourth to act as alternate. The following teams were chosen: Seniors-Bickley Lichty. Clarence Hileman, and Kenneth Burnham, with Owen Hitchens as alternate. Juniors-Lewis Leach. Maurice Cohn and Francis Eighrney. i Sophomores-Victor Kaplan, Kenneth Knoop and Austin Jones: alternate- .-Xhce Forbes. Freshmen-,Iosephine Lumry, Dorothy Clasen, and XYendell XYebb: Frank Court, alternate. The first debate was held February 6 between the Sophomores and Seniors. This resulted in a 2 to 1 victory for the Seniors. who upheld the negative of the regular state question. The judges were Merle Francis. Max Levingston. and Kenneth Kistner of the regular squad. The second debate was on February 14, with the Juniors and Freshmen as contestants. The Freshmen upholding the negative. were victorious, 2 to l. The judges were Earl London. Jewell johnson. and -lohn Corson of the school team. The third and final debate should have been between the Seniors and Fresh- men: but the Seniors, who would have been forced to change sides. declared themselves unable to perform this and so forfeited the debate to the Freshmen, who thereby became Interclass champions. ' The unfortunate part of the otherwise satisfactory season was the fact that, thru a misunderstanding with regard to the awarding of XY's which the Freshmen claimed they had been promised, a good deal of feeling was aroused which only ended with the giving of small emblems to the claimants. Some dis- satisfaction was also expressed at the work of one of the teams, of whom it was said, that their work was not entirely original. In spite of these small troubles the season was highly successful and has brought out much good material for next year's school team. -J. c. Page one lwzvzdrad and ttizrlsnt