1977-1978

 

 

Pio Picture

The Faculty

  

Remy Wilcox, Director of Forensics

 

JoAnne Rasmussen

Instructor, Speech and Drama

 

Whitman News

A.     The SUB caught on fire, damaging the TV lounge.

B.     Whitman employees formed the Whitman College Employees’ Association to improve working conditions, pay, etc.

C.     In February, Whitman started its recycling program by distributing boxes throughout the campus as receptacles for recyclable materials.

D.     Whitman place a new emphasis on minorities with the creation of the multi-ethnic interest house.

E.      Donald Woods spoke on campus about apartheid.

 

 

 The topic was that the federal government should adopt a comprehensive program to control land use in the United States.

 

Speech Courses

The department's course descriptions reflect a focus on diction and articulation and the debate course offers argumentation training.

Speech Department Description: Courses treat public speaking as a liberal art, proposing that such speaking is not a skill learned by rule but an exercise of judgment that can be no better than the speaker's understanding of the nature of the communicative acts.

 

Speech was placed under general studies and it was called a "teaching area" (which would be changed back to a department in the 2000-2001 catalogue)

 

SPEECH 11. Fundamentals of Speech, 3 hours. (description changes; 11 and 12 are focus more on delivery and articulation)

SPEECH 14. Fundamentals of Articulation and Diction, 3 hours. 

SPEECH 43, 44. Principles and Practice of Forensics, 1 hours (individual events), 2 hours (debate). 

 

January, 1978: The high school tournament tab management is run on a computer. This is probably one of the first attempts to use computers at a tournament.

 

Dovell-Gose Awards

April 1978

1st Women’s: Maura Walsh, Ethics of Liberatioin

1st, Men’s: Doug Pauly, Breaking Isolation of Whitman College

Bill Way and Tim O’Connell tied for second in the men’s division

   

 

World News

A.     As South Africa prepared for upcoming parliamentary elections, the South African government engaged in a large scale crackdown on black organizations, arresting 30 leaders.

B.     Twenty people were killed in Nicaragua as civil war broke out.

C.     SALT II arms limitation agreement talks went on between the U. S. and the Soviet Union.

 

Team Awards

Taken from notes Remy Wilcox wrote:

1977-78

 

Our strength was in individual events this year, particularly in interp by David Hartsfield, Cathy Tanasse, Kent Brisby and Maura Walsh.

Kent Phillips and Brent Stratton both won in extemp, and ADS; Karen Wishart and Mike Bugni in oratory; Bill Anderston in Impromptu.

Karen Wishart and Brent Stratton received an Excellent in Extemp Debate at Pi Kap.

 

CEDA debate began at the U of 0 tournament and Joel Carlson and Churck Harwood were quarterfinalists.

 

A.     Whitman won several trophies at the Lewis and Clark tournament where Francis Degrin and Bill Anderson took 3rd in CEDA debate.

B.     At the Idaho IE tournament, David Hartsfield and Cathy Tanasse took 2nd in duo interpretation.

C.     Pacific University Tournament

1.      Chris Eckman and Dick Doidge won 1st in NDT debate.

2.      Eckman was 1st speaker in NDT debate.

3.      Joel Carlson and Chuck Harwood won in CEDA debate.

4.      Brant Stratton won 1st in oratory.

D.     Whitman brought home 12 trophies from a total of three tournaments.

E.      The January high school tournament had a computerized tab room for the first time.