1935-1936
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The Yearbook Varsity Women’s and Men’s Teams
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The
Faculty
John Ackley John
William Ackley, A.M. Assistant Professor of English, A.B., University of
Redlands; A.M., University of Southern California, Instructor, and Director of
Forensics
Edith
Blackman Merrell Davis, A.B. (Mrs.) Assistant Professor English, A.B. Ripon
College; started in the English department in 1924 (she taught Latin as an
instructor prior to that).
W.R.
Davis, DSR Faculty Advisor |
Whitman News
Team Members, 1935-1936
1. John Ifft
2. John Tuttle
3. Lawrence Minnick
4. Helen Wheeler
5. Marrion Canfield
6. Faith Craig
7. Mary Libby
8. Betty Ann Jacobs
9. Faith Brown
10. Elizabeth Storie
11. Betty Jean Osborn
12. Inez Warrell
The Wrangler’s Club (Frosh debaters)
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Details on the courses Courses
in Writing 1 or 2.
ORIENTATION AND DISCUSSION.—This course includes: ID
lectures with assigned reading by members of the faculty of 1)
lectures with assigned reading by members of the faculty oi each
division on the significance of studies in the social sciences, in
letters and arts, and in the basic sciences; (2) instruction and training
in effective communication of thought through written discussion
of topics related to the lectures and others. Written discussions
are presented to the class and also receive individual conference
criticism by the instructor. Required of all freshmen. correlates
with Course 15 or 16. Three
hours, one semester. Davis,
Lapham, McCall, Ackley 31.
JOURNALISM.—A study of the newspaper as a medium of interpreting our
contemporary American civilization, and supervised
practice in newspaper forms: news story, news letter, interviews,
editorials, feature stories, and book reviews. Two
hours, first semester.
MitcheU 51.
SHORT STORY WRITING.—A course in writing short stories and
other narrative forms, accompanied by a study of narrative structure
and reading of contemporary types. Students present their
writing to the class for criticism, and to the instructor for individual
attention. Two
hours, first semester. Lapham 52.
THE SPECIAL ARTICLE.—Practice in writing long and short
articles of whatever sort the student desires, and a study of
the elements of good writing based on assigned readings. The student's
writing receives the individual attention of the instructor as well as class
criticism. Two
hours, second semester.
Lapham 54.
BUSINESS WRITING.—A study of current usage in business correspondence
and business publications and practice in writing reports,
letters, and other forms. Two
hours, second semester. 81-82.
ADVANCED WRITING.—Course 31, 51, 62, or 54 is pre- requisite.
Registration by permission of the instructor. One
or two hours, first and second semesters.
Davis, Lapham Courses
in Speaking and Dramatic Art 15 or
16. ORIENTATION AND DISCUSSION.—This course aims to train
the student in effective communication of his thought on topics
related to lectures and assigned reading (described in Course
1 or 2), and other topics in which the class has interest. Speeches
are given before the class each week. Attention is given to
voice defects and the formation of right vocal habits. Individual direction
is given as required. Men and women are organized into separate groups of not
more than sixteen members each. Required
of all freshmen. Correlates with Course I or 2. Three
hours, one semester. McCall,
Mrs. Davis, Ackley 45 or
46. ORAL INTERPRETATION.—This course aims to develop ability
to read aloud and to gain through oral interpretation an added
appreciation of literature. Attention is given to void training.
Open to sophomores. Two
hours, one semester.
Mrs. Davis Courses
of Instruction, Division II
6747. DEBATING.—Readings
in current social, economic, and political questions and constant practice in
speaking before the class. Two
hours, -first semester. McCall 56.
ADVANCED PUBLIC SPEAKING.—Elements of effective public speaking
and practice in speaking before the class. Attention is given
to extemporaneous speaking and to the oration. Two
hours, second semester.
McCall 57-58.
(Unit) DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION AND PLAY PRODUC- TION.—Instruction
and practice in dramatic interpretation followed by experience with problems
of play production through public
performance of several plays. Consideration is given to Scene
design, stage lighting, costuming, and directing. I Two
hours, first semester; three hours, second semester. >
Mrs. Davis 75-76. SEMINAR
IN SPEECH OR
DRAMATIC TRAINING.—Advanced
study under individual instruction to students who have .taken
courses offered in either field. One
or two hours, first and second semesters. McCall,
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Speech
Major and Courses THE
MAJOR: Thirteen hours selected from courses in speech; Dramatic Art 55, 56;
twelve hours selected from English 25, 26, 35, 36, 39, 40, 79, 80; two hours
selected from Classics 65 and 68; three hours selected from History 27, 28,
57, 58, 61, 62, 64. Of the total of thirty-six hours, eighteen must be in
courses numbered above 50. Advised: As much additional work in dramatic art
as time permits. SPEECH
11, 12. Fundamentals of Speech, 3
hours. SPEECH
41. Theory and Practice of Discussion,
3 hours. SPEECH
42. Argumentation and Debate, 3
hours. SPEECH
53. Introduction to Radio and
Television, 3 hours. SPEECH 56. Persuasive Speaking, 3 hours. SPEECH
71, 72. Radio Production and Direction,
3 hours. SPEECH
78. Oral Interpretation, 3 hours. SPEECH
81. Introduction to Speech Correction,
3 hours. SPEECH
82. Problems in Speech Correction, 2 or
3 hours SPEECH
85, 86. Senior Honors Course, 3
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Team News
DOVELL-GOSE
CONTEST
That the
classes and the graduates continue to show interest in Whitman is proven
annually
during the Commencement week when the Dovell-Gose Oratorical Contest is
held
and two prizes, one of $25 and one of $10, are announced at Commencement.
William
Thomas
Dovel, '88, and Christopher Columbus Gose, '86, both distinguished members
of the
Washington Bar Association are the donors and founders.
The
winners of the 1935 contest were:
1st—William
LeRoy Firfield, '37.
2nd—George
Wilmot Rogers, '35.
INTRAMURAL
DEBATE
A
decision which hinged upon the five to four clauses of the question:
"Resolved:
'That
Congress should be permitted by a two-thirds majority vote to over-ride any 5-4
decision
of the Supreme Court declaring a law unconstitutional'," gave the victory
to
the
Beta affirmative team over the Independents in the final meet. The championship
team,
Eric Hagberg and Ross Reid lost once to the Independents—Wear Clark and Owen
Pugh—defeated
the TKE's twice and won the last contest against the Independents.
Other
teams were Jack Shaffer and Ben Stone, Phi Delt; Ed Robel and Stanley Lind-
quist,
TKE.
That
intramural debate is one of the best training squads for Varsity debate is
proven
yearly by the number of men who make the jump from intramural competition
to
represent Whitman in Varsity competition.
Floyd
Fitzpatrick held the managership of men's debate this year.
In the
women's intramural debate, the team of Delta Delta Delta bowed to defeat
in
their last match with the Kappa team to return the gavel to the Kappa's possession.
All
groups participated in this event, which took the varsity question:
"Resolved: That
Mussolini
has been beneficial to Italy." Varsity debaters are ineligible for this
competition. The winning team consisted of Georganne Barber and Florence Martin.
Peggy Kelly
was
originally a member of this team. Katherine Pengelly and Marjorie Jones
followed
Helen
Ruth Maddox and Jean Smith on the Tri-Delt team, which placed second. Other
opponents
include: Alpha Chi, Roberta Sandoz, Jeannette Kiefer; Delta Gamma, Margaret
Morgan,
Margaret Smith; Phrateres, Helen Pruter, Genevieve Gaard; Phi Mu, Kathryn
Williams,
Ruth G. Van Patten. Helen Rasmussen managed women's debate.
The two
gavels presented annually to the winner were made from the wood of
the
famous Colfax tree, especially for this purpose and as a gift of Mr. W.
Worthington
in the
interests of Whitman forensics.
John
Brining Freshman Extemporaneous Contest
1935
1st—ERIC
HAGBERG
2nd—MARGARET
SMITH
FORENSIC
LEAGUE CONFERENCE
Climaxing
the year's debate activity, Whitman College was host to the 12th annual Pacific
Forensic
League conference March 25 to 28, at which the leading educational institutions
of the
West
were represented. The purpose of the league conference is to promote forensics
and to pro-
vide an
annual meeting place where student and faculty delegates may discuss their
problems.
The
league provides specifically for contests in extempore speaking, oratory,
debate and after-
dinner
speaking. The Whitman varsity team placed fourth in debate.
Schools
represented were: Washington State college,
Stanford, University of
Southern California, University of Oregon, Oregon
State college, Willamette
University, Pomona college,
University of Idaho, University
of Arizona, University of California at Los Angeles, University of
Washington, University of Nevada and
Whitman college. John W. Ackley, debate coach, was chairman
for the
conference and Malcolm Smith was student chairman for local arrangements.
The
varsity team of Minnick and Ifft will be lost by graduation after four years of
college debating together. Good material for the future will be found in
Hurtle, Butterfield, Kelly, Fitzpatrick,
Jones
and Tuttle.
WOMEN'S
VARSITY DEBATE
Arguing
the resolution: "That the Federal Government should fix maximum limits on
personal
incomes
and inheritances," the women's varsity teams were hostesses in December
for a triangular
debate
series in which Washington State college, University of Idaho, and Whitman were
represent-
ed. The
outcome found Washington State in first place, with seven victories; Whitman
second witTi
four:
and the University of Idaho third. Whitman debaters were Faith Brown,
Betty Jacobs, Inez
Warrell,
Elizabeth Storie, Faith Craig and Mary Louise Libby.
Whitman
women did not enter the Linfield tournament this year. However, it is expected
that
during
the coming year they will once more represent Whitman at McMinnville.
MEN'S
DEBATE
The
debate season for men officially began at Thanksgiving when seven men at-
tended
the Invitational meet held by San Francisco State College. Eric Hagberg, Ross
Reid,
Wear Clark, Ben Stone, Mervin Butterfield, Ed Roble and Floyd Fitzpatrick
attended this meet, which was made possible by the Teachers of Speech
Conference held later
that
week. The trio of Clark, Reid and Hagberg went to the semi finals in
competition
with
sixty-four teams, finally losing to Stanford after defeating two Stanford
teams.
Reid
also placed in the finals in extempore speaking against forty contestants.
Besides
the seven who attended the California meet, Earl Fossum and Murl Miller
debated
in the triangular meet with University of Idaho and W. S. C. After a record be-
ginning
in 1931 in which Whitman won all debates, and succeeding years in which Whit-
man always
won the event 5-8, this year's record of tying with Idaho for second place was
exceptional.
This year may be marked as a year of preparation rather than achievement,
despite
Whitman's fine debating record, remarkable in the number of underclassmen who
were
gaining their first experience in college forensics.
At the
Linfield Invitational meet in February, debaters Reid and Tuttle reached
the
semi-finals; Butterfield and Hagberg won 4-6, as did Fitzpatrick and Roble;
while
Clark
and Bill Pugh split their winnings. Three Whitman orators reached the
semi-finals—
Fitzpatrick,
Fifield, and Roble. Fifield and Reid competed in the extempore semi-finals
and in
the finals Fifield reached fourth place with sixty competitors.
The
Pacific Forensic League, at which U. C. L. A. was host, gave Whitman the
distinction
of winning the only unanimous decision of the tournament, a telling commen-
tary on
the strength of the evenly matched teams. Whitman's other debates were lost by
2-1
decisions, in which fate Whitman was not alone.
SORORITY
INTRAMURAL DEBATE
The
question, resolved: "That the Federal government should fix rnaximum
limits on personal In-
comes
and inheritances," was discussed this year by sorority women in the annual
intramural debate
competition.
The Delta
Delta Delta team, Mary Louise Libby and Jean
Smith, received the Hugh Elmer
Brown
debate plaque and the intramural gavel as winners. Debating against
them were Dorothy
Tontz
and Helen Verne Hall, Alpha Chi Omega: Betty Ramage, Virginia Hatch and Rae
Koster,
Delta
Gamma: Elizabeth S+orie and Inez Warrell, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Wilma Harvey and
Helene Rhuddy, Phi Mu: and Jean Pratt, Evelyn Southard and Faith Craig,
Phrateres.
The
intramural debate competition offered the women qualified in forensics
excellent training
and
experience. Faith Craig, Mary Louise Libby, Elizabeth Storie and Inez Warrell
were chosen as
members
of the women's varsity debate squad after the series. Marion Canfield was the
chairman
of the
tournament.
YE
TALKE SHOPPE
Ye
Talke Shoppe, freshmen women's forensic club organized to foster interest in
public speaking, extended its discussion this year to current events and
literature. Members were elected through
a
series of tryout debates which were judged by retiring members.
Jean Smith was
elected president of the club,
Jean Pratt, vice-president and Rosalie Watkins, secretary.
MEMBERS
Betty
Bright
Helen
Dahlstrom
Virginia
Davenport
Virginia
Hatch
Jeanette
Kiefer
Susan
Libby
Margaret
Morgan
Virginia
Neace
Catherine
Penaellv
Daisy
Philbrick
Jean
Pratt
Mary
Jean Sloane
Jean
Smith
Margaret
Smith
Olive
Stocking
Patricia
Sweeney
Rosalie
Wa+kins
Martha
Yeomans
In
oratory Fitzpatrick reached the finals; in extempore Fifield placed in final
competition;
and Ross Reid's place in the after-dinner speaking contest is not known
among
the nine competitors.
For the
second half of the season the forensic program has included debating before the
service clubs of Walla Walla. Purposely this has two results—to bring-the
debaters in contact with live interested audiences and to present a portion of
the Whitman
educational
program, demonstrating its effectiveness.
Non-decision
cross-question debates were held with the University of Washing-
ton
freshmen, representing the type of debate which they hold to be most
beneficial. Eric
Hagberg
and Wear Clark also met the St. Mary's team. Floyd Fitzpatrick was in charge
of
men's debate for the year.
WOMEN'S
DEBATE
In
their first meet, a triangular meet with the University of Idaho and W. S. C.
the
Whitman girls to take the platform broke even in their wins and losses, placing
second.
The
last of the triangular series was broadcast over radio station KUJ.
The
debaters, with the number of debates in which they participated are: Helen
Rassmussen
(4) ; Jean Smith (3) ; Katherine Pengelly (4) ; Elizabeth Storie (2) ; Mar-
garet
Smith-radio debate; Olive Stocking (1); Virginia Hatch (1).
At
Linfield a trio of Whitman girls competed and were eliminated in the
preliminaries. They were: Faith Brown (5 debates); Helen Rassmussen (4
debates); Georgane
Baber
(3 debates). Helen Rassmussen held the office of women's debate manager for
the
year.
WRANGLERS'
CLUB
Donning
their "top hat and cane" emblems was merely the
"Wrangler's," fresh-
man debate
society, preparation for the year's activities. Besides debating the varsity
question
they have encountered Ye Talke Shoppe (no announced decision). However
in
retribution they were hosts at a joint banquet with the girls' group, as well
as a joint
frolic.
This year's innovation is the Wrangler's singing quartet.
Members
and executive board of the group, of which Mr. Roy McCall is faculty advisor,
are: Bill Pugh, president; Stanley Lindquist, vice-president; Charles Winders,
secretary;
Dick Zwicker, Ferris Albers, John Luker, Bill Fairbank, Richard Bates, Clinton
McElhiney,
Charles Guthrie, Murray Taggart, Ted Best, Leslie Voorhees, David McFadden and
Don Holt.
WRANGLERS
CLUB
Wranglers
Club, made up of freshmen men who are chosen because of their interest in
debate,
is active
throughout the entire
year. Joint meetings
with Ye Talke
Shoppe, given over
to debating
and
informal round table discussion, were held this year. Members of the club met
the University of
Washington
freshman debate squad in a series of non-decision debates. Two members of the
club
took
part in varsity debate in the Linfield debate conference. Officers were Ralph Hurtle, president: Mervin Butterfield,
vice-president, and James Beer, secretary-treasurer.
MEMBERS
Roberta
Barowski
James
Beer
Mervin
Butterfield
Wear
dark
Eric
Hagburg
Ralph
Hurtle
DeWane
Larnka
John
Meek
Murl
Miller
John
Morton
Carter
Townes
Richard
White
FRATETNITY
INTRAMURAL DEBATE
The Independent
team, George Rogers and Ralph Hurtle, took first place in intramural debate
after a
series of close contests on the same question as that used by the varsity teams, resolved:
"That
the nations should agree to prevent international shipment of arms and
munitions." Outstanding material was discovered among the entrants, Mervin
Butterfield, Floyd Fitzpatrick, Ralph Hurtle,
Dwelley
Jones, William Kelly, George Rogers and John Tuttle having been chosen as
varsity men
after
the contest closed.
Opponents
of the Independent team throughout the tournament were Dwelley Jones and John
Tuttle, Beta Theta
Pi: Ben Stone and Mervin Butterfield, Phi Delta Theta;
Earl Fossum and
Philip
Meyers,
Sigma Chi: and Floyd Fitzpatrick and Wear dark, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Lawrence
Minnick
was +he
chairman in charge of +he series.
DEBATE
Forensic
competition is one of the leading extracurricular activities on
the Whitman campus.
This
year's varsity debaters have been able to maintain a creditable ranking with the
larger schools
of the
Pacific coast.
SALT
LAKE TRIP
At the
convention of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech, held at Salt Lake
City,
November
27, 28 and 29, the varsity team of Minnick and Ifft placed second to Stanford.
Whitman
lost
its first debate to College of Colorado and reached the finals without further defeat, winning
from
the previously unbeaten Stanford team in the semi-finals. The Whitmanites were
eliminated in
the
return contest.
Fifty
teams were entered from all the states west
of the Rocky Mountains.
Coach John W.
Ackley
accompanied the Whitman team to Salt Lake.
Teams
met were College of Colorado, Brigham Young university, University of Redlands,
Pasadena college, University of Idaho, University of Utah, Utah State college,
and Stanford university.
TRIANGULAR
MEET
The
annual triangular meet between Idaho, Washington State and Whitman, held at
Pullman
December
10, was added to the Whitman victories of the year. Whitman won five out of
eight
debates, Idaho four and Washington State two. Whitman
was represented by Minnick and Ifft
and by
Jones and Tuttle.
In the
debate tournament held on the Linfield campus at McMinnville, Oregon,
February 21, 22
and 23,
Whitman was represented by five teams: Zwicker and Smith; Hurtle and
Butterfield: Kelly
and
Fitzpatrick: Fossum and Myers: and Rogers and Leslie. Whitman won fifty per
cent of its de-
bates,
breaking even in the six debates with Willamette, the tournament champion.
OTHER
DEBATES
In March,
Ifft and Minnick met and defeated the debaters from St.
Mary's who were
making
a tour
of the Northwest. The same team held non-decision debates with Eastern Oregon
Normal and
Lewiston
State Normal.
Team Awards