Western Union College - Pilot Yearbook (Le Mars, IA)

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Dr-amatics The current year's dramatic productions under the direction of Professor Osborne included two types of plays. The drama, Our Town, presented to the Homecoming audience, was effectively done without the aid of scenery or properties. The idea of the stage manager-actor was entirely new and intriguing. The appreciative audience was touched by the poignancy and wholesome goodness of the play. In definite contrast, the hilarious 6'Charley's Aunt, a rejuvenation of a late Nineteenth Century favorite, was staged. The combination of the ridiculous and the improbable gave the audience psychological release-the Catharsis of laughter. CAST Jack Chesney ............ .................... ............. T 0 m Lenihan Charles Wykeham ........ ......... Q uentin Lansman Lord Babberly .......... .............. E arl Werner Sir Francis .......................,..... ........... D arrel Stark Donna Lucia D'Alvodorez ........ ........ M arion Hazelton Kitty Verdum ......................... ........ P atricia Hatch Amy Spettigue .................... ....... S ylvia Dahmes Stephen Spettigue ........ .............. L yle Davis Miss Delehay ......,.. ,........ B onnie Burgard Farmer ............... ......... H oward Stinger Maud ........... ............... M argy Willianis Brassett ....... ....... P aul Christopherson

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Miller. Honnoid. Dull, Roscbvrry. Varsity Debate The first varsity debate team, Bob lioseberry and Lowell Miller. ranked among the top three debate teams of the Sioux Province area which includes Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa. Western Union defeated, during the 1940-4-1 debate season, Augustana, South Dakota University, Morningside, Huron, and South Dakota State. The team, debating the national Pi Kappa Delta question, niiesolved: That the nations of the Western Hemisphere should enter into a permanent union, lost only three debates during the entire season and tied for second place at Mitchell, South Dakota, where it was the only Iowa team partici- pating in that tournament. The team also tied for second place at the Sioux City Provincial Tournament as well as receiving excellent rating at the Iowa Forensic Tournament at Cedar Rapids where ranking was based on a supe- rior, excellent, good, fair scale. At Cedar Rapids where Drake, Dubuque, Upper Iowa, Luther, and Cen- tral were rated superior teams, Bob Roseberry received a medal for superior debating ability, the highest honor possible for an individual debater, and also gained the highest number of points for individual debating, 95, at the Provincial Tournament. Lowell Miller was ranked with an excellent and an 89 respectively at these two tournaments. Both the first and second teams debated Northwestern Junior College at the beginning of the season in a non-decision debate.

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tg! D U LL M. BROWN Oratory Marcella Brown's oration, i'The Fool's Puzzle, is a plea and a plan for world economic cooperation. It was placed among the first five orations at botli the University of South Dakota and the Sioux City Provincial Speech Tournaments. Mr. Dull's oration, HAmerica's Role, was given at the Sioux City Provincial Tournament. uAmerica's part in the present world crisesf' stated Mr. Dull, is not that of participation, or even of arbitration, but that of mediation. America must be the leader- must take this role in world affairs. The oration was placed lifth in the Provincial Tournament.