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Show Editorial ... Full Support Should Be Given All Student Body Activities It has been very heartening to see the amount of school spirit shown this year at the football games. The student body is really behind the team. School spirit, however, should not e limited to athletics alone. We need to give our best and put our support behind the other activities in the school. We have the potential of coming out near the top in nearly all of our functions. Band, chorus, debate, and drama are just a few of the things in which we can excel. We also need to support the faculty and our classes. Our faculty is capable of making us leaders, academically speaking. If we would allow some school spirit and a backing of our teachers to seep into our classes, there would be no limit to the things we could accomplish. Support is also necessary in our contacts with the administration. It is through their efforts that most of our opportunities are possible. We should do all we can to cooperate with them. Last, but not least, we should support the social functions of the school. Remember, nothing can succeed without your support. The school needs us all, and we all need the school. With all of us giving our best and no one holding back, we can truly make this the best year of our lives. Quota Reached . . . Yearbook Drive Is Successful; Darais Heads Staff as Adviser After a month of vigorous Year- campaigning, Byron Fisher, book Business Manager, happily announced that the quota was reached and once again B.Y. high will have a yearbook. He also pointed out that last years sales have been exceeded.. Faculty advisor nd consultant of the yearbook staff is Mr. Alex Darais, who is new to the high school teaching staff. His experiences in the artistic and literary fields have been wide and varied. Before graduating from the Brig- ham Young University, he served as Art Editor of the literary magazine and president of the Art Guild. Since receiving the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Claremont, California, he has taught school in California high schools and was advertising artist for Hechtle and Art Enge, photographers; Jane Gilchrist, copy editor; Rose Mary Andrus, copy; Val Harris, touch-uartist; Jon Hicken, general staff; Steve McDonald, Colleen Calder, Phillip Keeler and Alberta Jacobs, layout and art. Alberta will also design the cover. The theme of the yearbook is still top secret, but the whole staff agrees that it is unique and hopes it will be enthusiastically received by the student body. p Speech Classes PlanfYears Activities; Debate Meets to Start in January One of the big problems in college is to learn to do research. student. It Debate is an excellent preparation for the teaches him to search for facts to back up his opinions; to organize his thoughts in defense of his opinions, and above everything else, debate should train each individual to see and understand faulty reasoning in political campaigns, radio and television advertising. Very often debaters will improve their grade level after a season of debate, Professor George Lewis, instructor of debate stated. students in Taking addvantage of this opportunity, are thirty-onAdvanced Speech class, twenty-sevein Speech Workshop and seventeen in Speech I. Twenty others, who, though unable to enroll in one of these classes, will compete for positions on debate teams. The subject for this years deThe Speech Workshop De- bate question is centered around partment, under the direction of tariffs and free trade. In prepGeorge Lewis, presented the play aration for coming events, the reading current Jack and the Beanstalk, in Col- students are and discussing topics magazines lege Hall. of interest and value. The first of January rftarks The play was given before audiences of 5000 youngsters from the beginning of intensive study, as the Weber Invitational Meet schools in the surrounding areas. will As be held in Two performances were given many students as February. are interested each day and three on Saturday will be entered in debate, oratory, and extemporaneous speaking. in American Fork. Region anld State Meets will Mr. Lewis said, You must see come in March, with a fourth the play through the eyes of the division, legislative forum, added. children before you can really Last year three students merited it. superior rating at the State enjoy The cast was as follows: Meet, and BY High took second in the finals. Giants wife, Gay Marchant; Three contests, rewarding trips Harp, Claudia Johnson; Jack, and scholarships will be held this Warren Davidson; Giant, Joe year. They are: I Speak for the American LeGammett; Man in the Moon, Jan- Democracy, United Oratorical. A and gion et Olsen; Widow, LaWona Dix; $4,000 scholarship will be preJoan, Carol Ann Jenkins; Annot, sented the winner of the United Jackie Porter; Rafe Heywood, Nations Oratorical. John Heneger; Nickolas, Stuart ACTIVITIES Biddulph; music and lights, Marilyn Swenson; Props, Kenny Oct. 30 Journalism Conference. Nov. 5 Notre Maison Slumber Stone and Clark Harding; Prompters, Helen Anderson. Party Nov. 8 Sadie Hawkins Dance Nov. 24 Thanksgiving Dance. all-aroun- n Speech Department Presents Jack and The Beanstalk Published monthly by the students of the BYU High School Printed by the BYU Press When asked if he had a statement to make about the yearbook Mr. Darais replied, I feel I have an exceptional staff this They have a lot of enthustalent, and the ability to as a team. Under the capleadership of Gale Gagon, editor in chief, I feel we will have an outstanding yearbook. This years staff includes Gale Gagon, editor in chief; Byron Fisher, business manager; John d e ZCMI. year. iasm, work able Oct. 29, 1954 Yld Cat Page 2 Wildcat staff, left to right, front row: Colleen Calder, Rose Mary Andrus, Janeile Brimhall, Gale Gagon, Jane Gilchrist, Alberta Jacobs; back row: Philip Keeler, Val Harris, Byron Fisher, John Hechtle, Steve McDonald, and Mr. Alex Darias. Absent when picture was taken was Art Enke. Jennie Lin Poulson John Hechtle Photographer . Adviser . Winston Mercer Reporters Mary Urban, Joyce Jackson, Rose Mary Andrus, Helen Anderson, Jane Gilchrist . |