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Show 1 4 l " l r I ' J "sr y - Y 1 - sa . y -'' - It wasn't all fun and games at the recent speech meet attended by three Grand County High School students in Salt .Lake City last week. Aleene Nielson, local media coordinator, coordinat-or, is shown here In the Utah House of Representatives chamber coaching Deanna Moab Students Involved in Lively Debates at State Capitol Three Grand County High School Students were among twenty four students from fourteen high schools throughout through-out Utah who took over the Utah House of Representative Chambers February 28th. Mike Crist, Deanna Nielson, and Susan Shafer, local and district winners of the nationwide nation-wide "Bicentennial Youth Debates" program, joined battle with "the outlanders" in the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City. This event marked the third of four phases to determine speech champions of a project recog-' nized by the American Revolution Revolu-tion Bicentennial Administration.' Administra-tion.' At stake in the meet were scholarships in amounts as high as $1,000. It seemed fitting to hold the competition in the legislative chambers as it's doubtful the recently adjourned legislature could have argued more fervently over proposed laws-than laws-than these participants did about the role of organized labor in America. The subject of labor was predetermined by the BYD program. Each student participated partici-pated in one type of speech, either debate (Mike Crist), persuasive speech (Susan Shafer), Sha-fer), or extemperaneous speech (Deanna Nielson). A-wards A-wards in each category were scholarships as follows: 1st place, $1,000; 2nd place, $500; and 3rd place, $250. The first place winner in each category will now go to San Antonio, Texas to compete in the regional contest where first place award is $6,000, ranging downward to $1,500 for third place. The high caliber of competition competi-tion at the meet can be shown by using the Skyline High School participants as an Nielson before her second round of competition. While the chambers weren't as full as they would be during a legislative session, the debates and speeches were every bit as serious as those made by the lawmakers. example. Maj J. Sylvester, debate coach for 14 years and head of the Skyline HS speech department commented that her students "were always up there." To prove her point, she told us about taking 45 students to a speech meet at Arizona State last year. They ended up the number one team. Her student entered in the Extemperaneous Speech competition won 1st place in debate at the Arizona State meet. The fact that this student didn't place in the competition just completed illustrates just- how good the participants of the meet were. The Grand County students didn't place either but the fact they were there at all is one more plus factor for Grand County High School. Coordinating the sectional contest were Dan Roadhouse, administrator at Utah Technical Techni-cal College and his wife Jeanine and Malcolm Sillars, Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. We overheard Dean Sillars remark "...excellent debates even in comparison to college debates!" Congratulations are in order for the following win ners: Debate: 1st, Dana Howells, Hillcrest; 2nd, Mark Morris, East; and 3rd, Kim Grosscup, Skyline. Persuasive Speech: 1st, Nettie Wolfert, Brighton; 2nd, Linda Nelson, . Odgen; and 3rd, Carol Mathe-son, Mathe-son, Cedar City. Extemperaneous Extemperan-eous Speech: 1st Clayton Clemens, East; 2nd, Teri Richards, Odgen; and 3rd, Wayne Pullan, Hillcrest. |