1988-1989
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The Faculty
Bob
Withycombe, Director of Forensics |
Whitman News
The College renamed
the Political Science major as the Politics major.
Pete Reid, the
Chief Financial Officer of Whitman retired after 20 years of service to the
Whitman faculty. Janice Abraham replaced
him.
The acting
President was Edward Foster. David Deal
was the Dean of Faculty. Brek Lawson was the Student Body President.
Professor Jim Todd
leads a movement on campus to adopt the northern hawk-owl as the Whitman
mascot.
Michael Mann '91
and a debate team member was named as a Truman
Scholar. He was only one of 200 college
undergraduates in the nation that was able to receive such an honor.
Speech Courses
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 110. Fundamentals of Speech, 3 hours.
SPEECH 221, 222. Principles and Practice of Forensics, 1
hours (individual events), 2 hours (debate).
SPEECH 270. Argumentation and Persuasion, 3
hours.
SPEECH 370. Seminar: Western Rhetorical Thinking, 3 hours.
World News
A. George Bush was inaugurated as
President.
B. Soviet Political Reform was
approved.
C. Bess Myerson, Miss
Team Awards
A. The debate team consisted of roughly 10-20
debaters and interpers.
B. Drummond Kahn, ’89, finished fourth in the
C. Kahn, who was named the top Northwest speaker
in March, was the first Whitman student to reach a final round in the nationals
since 1984.
D. Kahn he is one of only three students in the
Northwest who have qualified for the national tournament all 4 years of his
college debate career.
E. Whitman completed the debate season
with awards from more than 14 tournaments in nine different states.
F. Whitman Competed in CEDA debate and
various forms of speech competition.