White Oak High School - Roughneck Yearbook (White Oak, TX)

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Poetry and Prose Contestants Cite Selections for Points in District Mrs. Sandra Koonce took full advantage of the Tuesdays and Thursdays set aside during the annual ‘Activity Periods’ to prepare her Prose and Poetry contestants for | the District Meet. The hours of read- |} ing and recomposing paid off in the | end. Poetry contestants were Paula Chappel, James Webb, Larry Rice, and alternate Sherry Webb. Larry Rice and Paula Chappell advanced to the finals and Larry Rice brought back the third place medal and advanced to Regional. The Prose contestants, Pat Voss, Debra Payne, and Becky Donald, all advanced to the finals from Preliminary competi- tion. Debra Payne won the second place medal and earned her place at the Regional Meet. Prose and Poetry together contributed 15 points to the overall Literary victory. | ma ie | ad Competing in Prose UIL this year were: Debra Payne, Pat Voss, and Becky Donald. They were sponsored by Mrs. Sandra Koonce. bi Poetry contestants were: Brenda Robinson, Tina Humphrey, Gail McConathy, Larry Rice, Paula Chappell, James Webb, and Sherry Webb. Mrs. Sandra Koonce was the sponsor.

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Speakers and Debaters Place at District The contests started early for debaters this year. The first few meets were held around Longview. Debaters did not fare well around home, but they moved on to bigger towns and competition and did very well. Ferlin Blood and Lori Barnes debated at Lake Worth, a small town out of Fort Worth and Barnes came home with the most outstanding Debater award. The teams also went to Ennis, outside of Dallas, but did not do well. The next com- petition was District held at Tyler Jr. College. Lori Barnes and Brad Crittenten paired up and came home with third place. This victory got them to Regional, but they failed to place. Debbie King also debated at various contests with her partner, Clay Carpen- ter. The Debate teams were sponsored by Cheryl Stem- bridge. This year’s extemporanéous speakers claimed several hon- ors for White Oak. The stu- dents brought home trophies from every meet. At District Lisa Vickery placed first and Tricia Hill made it to finals. Randy Hill also competed at District. Janet Capps, Rebecca Han- cock, and Robin Blood repre- sented White Oak in persua- sive at the Dis- trict Meet. Janet and Rebecca advan- ced to Region- al and Janet went on. to State competi- tion where she failed to place. Mrs. Sandra Koonce’ and Mr. Robert Bohn — spon- sored these events. Debate partners and sponsor Cheryl Stembridge devoted a lot of their time to research and the District contestants in Informative Speaking and sponsors Robert Bohn, and San- dra Koonce. sapaer. ee Ss 3 rs 18 organization of their materials.

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Journalists Make Clean Sweep at District Gwen Ham, Brenda Hays, Becky Donald, Jan Capps, Serish Boyett, and LeeAnn Darden were White Oak’s Journalism entries at UIL. These girls not only practiced hard during Activity Period, but all year long. All are members of either the Annual or Gauger Staff. Their many weeks of effort paid off with UIL Journalism being domi- nated by White Oak stu- dents. Sponsor, Mrs. Vera Porter has reason to be proud. xs ieee A A Ale Rie ti ; ’ : ; 4 : ‘ . ' 4 Mrs. Porter’s Journalism contestants ended the district competition by earning a considerable amount of points to give White Oak another Literary victory. Ready Writing Sends One to Regional Every year Ready Writing sponsor Glenda Moeller, suc- cessfully crams years of information into her contest- ants in a few short weeks. This year it paid off with Leslie Hancock becoming a Regional Qualifier. Other contestants were Rebecca Hancock, Jill Hammett, and Danny Hender- son. 20 a Mrs. Moeller sponsored Ready-Writing contestants Leslie Hancock, Rebecca Hancock, Jill Hammett and Danny Henderson.