1979-1980

 

 

(back row, left to right) Cathy Tanasse, Jim Pogue, Megan Salzman, Brenda Cameron

The Faculty

  

Remy Wilcox, Director of Forensics

 

JoAnne Rasmussen

Instructor, Speech and Drama

 

Whitman News

I. Whitman College

  1. College President was Robert Allen Skotheim
  2. Memorial was renovated.
  3. General Studies debuts to replace “breadth of studies.”
  4. A new alcohol policy was instituted – the college would no longer use college funds to purchase alcohol for students.
  5.  Trustees approve funding of William O. Douglas Hall
  6. The student body president was Tim OConnell

 

 

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 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). 

 

 

Megan Salzman won the women’s division of the Dovell-Gose contest, April, 1980.

 

 

World News

II. The World

    1. Mt. St. Helens erupted

B. Seagate Technology created the first hard disk drive for microcomputers. The disk held 5 megabytes of data, five times as much as a standard floppy disk, and fit in the space of a floppy disk drive.

 

 

 

 

Team Awards

Taken from notes Remy Wilcox wrote:

 

1979-80

 

We were strong in Debate placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in six of the 9 debate tournaments we attended and were quarter-finalists at Western States.

We placed 2nd in sweepstakes at our first four tournaments: Gonzaga, U of 0, Linfield, and Lower Columbia. Particularly satisfying was our record at the large U of 0 tournament. (31 schools)

At U of 0 Karen Wishart and Brent Stratton placed 1st in CEDA Debate and Carolyn Snyder

and Tammy Grytness placed 3rd. Carolyn and Tammy also tied for I' at Linfield, were 2d at Pacific Lutheran and 3d at Boise State. We had a I" place tie in CEDA at Linfield with Kent Phillips and Tim O'Connell winning also. Brenda Cameron and Jim Pogue were I sT in NDT Debate at Pacific Lutheran, 3rd at Gonzaga and 2nd at Boise State and Lower Columbia where Frank Biaggi and Cheryl Schonhardt were P. Brenda Cameron and John Morrison were 3rd at the U of Montana.

 

Individual winners were Megan Salzman, Mike Bugni and Allen Weymiller in Oratory, Cathy Tanasse and Lauri Perry in Interp, Brenda Cameron in Extemp, Kent Phillips in Extemp and Impromptu, and Tim O'Connell in Impromptu. Kent Phillips won the Outstanding Speaker Award at the Linfield Tournament.

 

III. Whitman College Debate

  1. Remy Wilcox was the debate coach
  2. The team won 2nd place in sweepstakes at the University of Oregon Tournament and the following awards;

Karen Wishart and Brent Stratton, 1st in CEDA Debate

Carolyn Snyder and Tammy Grytness, 3rdd CEDA Debate

Cathy Tanasse, 1st Poetry

  1. At the NIET Regional Tournament we won the following awards:

Jim Pogue, Finalist in Extemp

Brenda Cameron, Finalist in Impromptu