Show The 'A:' y!' s Thursday May Egle-Rfl- S poMc vfc I' ' Vk v w sw v svrMA: x- a- - :: v - SV Neil Warren Mostsuccessfulcoachoncampus ' '‘v ? 271993 t - -v- - £ v over 7500 bj Elisha Ray Many believe that Wanen is the mostsuccessfulcoachoncampus staff writer but finally after gaining national When you enter into the office in which is supported by the many room 220 you are surrounded by filled trophy cases in the Main the over 75 trophies camouflaging Building He has contributed over walls desk and shclvesThese tro7500 trophies to CEU Many fraction of would let this count get to their phies only represent a heads but not Wanen "The numthe success that make up the dynamic Neil Wanen ber of trophies is not the ultimate When asked how he got started in goal it is only an indication of the his 37 year career as a communica- fducatkwd process student go tion professor and coach of of the through They learn and then they he ranked debate team win” When asked what forensics nationally with a means to him he replied "It has not replied grin on his faceQuite by accident My first only given me ineplxeable friendplan was to become a lawyer that ships and memories but it teaches students discipline tolerance and replan became immediately inoperative because of the high cost" He spect as well as speaking skills It then decided to take a crack at engi- is an education for life" neering "I was taking classes to Throughout the yems of travelbecome an engineer all the way up ling with the squad one would think to my freshman year Then that that he would hove a favorite squad summer I had a job in the field it or memorable year but for Wanrcn didn't take me long to realize that every year is memorable "It's reWarwasn't forte" engineering my ally quite neaL I keep track of hisren had taken speech and communi- tory by squads Just ask me what cations classes all through high happened in a certain year and I first school and college "So I shifted remember who was on the squad decided commuand to gears Every squad and every squad mempursue medinications" He enjoyed both ber has been interesting exciting ums of communications and drama and challenging Sure some years therefore majored in broadcast and we have more trophies and rank television higher in national standings but His education was interrupted by fve counted each year’s squad as a a call to join the military in which he advanced to the rank of fust lieuTrying to choose a most memotenant acting captain "I served not rable moment was difficult after so many yean but Warren recalled a only in the regular Army but in the National Guard as wclL There I year when his squad was made up of all males "We were on our way to served as company commander I California and had stopped in Las then came back and was offered a job by Dr Aaron Jones who was Vegas for the evening The squad president of Carbon College at the decided they wanted to sec a hypnotist Ironically enough one of the time And I never left" One would think that after 37 members was chosen as a particiyears of leaching and coaching that pant He told the hypnotist that he Wanen would be happy not to see wanted to get straight A's in another student again but he says it school so the hypnotist did whatis quite the opposite "I love work- ever hypnotists do and when we ing with young people because they came back the boy dropped out of forensics and got A's thereafter" are stimulating invigorating and The road uphill has been a battle they keep you young” I have competed for Neil Warren And the last thing III remember for two years and there are many is Neil flipping me the bird as we things that I can recall The first of took our lag debate picture He which are Neif s strange methods of quickly followed it up with Tve been waiting all year to do that!" keeping awake and to Needless to say Neil and I were the During our long drives from tournaments Neil would keep best of friends awake by sticking his hand out the noises window and making goo-gowhile his arm that went up and down with the air currents If that didn't work he would stick his head out the window and shake it fierdy that was quite a sight to wake up to! The second memory I will have of Neil Is his playing with my toes to wake me up I thought it was quite strange to wake up to "this little piggy” as he pulled at my o toes Gilbert Archuleta The most memorable moment with NeQ Warren that I will carry with me for life is his recipe for success First: "be on time” Second: "do what you say you will do" Third: "do a little bit more" This was Neil's formula for others yet for himself it became a bit more stringent You could Is Irreplaceable There Is only one Nell Warren" 'Nell Warren 1 :r ' 1 M ” vv ' - - "Viv1 : If?? recognition four times Warren's dream became a reality "President Petersen called me into his office and asked me what it would take to be consistently nationally ranked I told him we needed more scholarships a bigger budget and an assistant coach We got all of them the next year except for an assistant coach Ibat year we were ranked first in debate fifth overall in Phi Rho Pi and third junior college in CEDA So you can see the support from administrators docs make a difference We always had a good squad before this time with spectac-ub- tf students but never enough of then Now with the help of ad-- “ ' ministraton staff and faculty we are a national power So much so that some schools and people don't like us When you're a loser people like you because you are not a threat We are very much a threat We have won more regional trophies than any other schooL One year we won it with no debate teams and another year with tmly five students” Warren's success not only cones vicariously through is involvement with forensics but through his own rite This year he was awarded out- standing junior college teacher of the year as well as an award for out- standing service to education He was also the first recipient of the Price Good Senrice Award for his outstanding dedication to education youth and society "It is with great regret that I have come to retirement I sincerely thank all of you: the school faculty staff and of course students" D Scott Pullan assistant coach will take on the awesome job of head forensics coach When asked if he was ready to replace Warren Pullan replied "Neil is irreplaceable There is only one Neil Wanen" always count on Neil and First "be early" Second: "do all that he had promised to do” Third: "do a whole lot more" Perhaps an even more memorable moment would be when Neil played little piggy on Gilbert Archuleta's toes at five in the morning By Scott Pullan One of my favorite memories Wanen was when I Neil of graduated from high school in Emery county and he recruited me to debate for the college My first tournament was in Pasadena California and the team stayed overnight in Las Vegas Neil felt that it was important that we get some culture We agreed that a dance review would be nice Even though I had seen several dance reviews that the dance teachers in Emery county put on and doubted that the one in Vegas could be that much better I guess I should have been suspicious when one of the more experienced members of the team insisted that I bring a fake ID As we stood to in line to get tickets I noticed posters of the dancers I'd had never seen dancers like that in Perron--1 had to admit though I was looking forward to the evening Unforunately our plans soon began to fell apart We stood in line trying hard not to bring the attention of the security guards to us Curtis Stevenson from East Carbon was just in front of me He worked at the old Mission Motel as a night clerk and had not slept much in the last week or so Sadly he chose that moment 10 fall asleep He fell down on the floor and before the lady behind me had stopped screaming three security guards were trying 10 revive him Needless to say after they got him to wake up with smelling salts they carefully checked or IDs Amazingly I passed But one team member had forgotton to take his real driver's license out of his wallet and when the guards found two different ID"s they tossed us out of the place (Continued omPmgo ID |