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Show Dixie College News A meeting of school secretaries of District 7, which comprises Iron, Kane and Washington counties, coun-ties, will be held in St. George Friday. Miss Nellie Kruys, president presi-dent of the Utah Association of School Secretaries will be here to direct the conference. D. J. C. One of the interesting events of the speech festival to be held here April 30th will be an extemporaneous ex-temporaneous speaking contest. John T. Woodbury will give a medal to the winner. Subjects for discussion are being given out this week. Students will study the general subjects carefully care-fully in advance, but will be given but one hour before the contest to prepare on the specific topic which each will draw. Participating in the speech festival festi-val will be Dixie, Hurricane and the Woodward. D. J. C. Receiving special recognition during the week in elementary typing at the college are Mary Cheney, Misha Bentley, David Finlayson, Katherine Stirling and Paul Thompson. Paul did the outstanding out-standing work in a ten-minute test, typing 53 words per minute. D. J. C. Earl J. Bleak and Miss Ruth Falck will present their students of music of the Woodward high school in a recital Monday, April 19, at 8:15 in the college auditorium. audi-torium. D. J. C. The Dixie college interclass track meet will be held Friday at 4 p. m., at the local field. The following week the high school boys will participate in an invitation invi-tation meet at Hurricane. D. J. C. Walter Miles was in Salt Lake City the first part of the week in the interests of the national defense and the pilot training program. pro-gram. D.J.C. Six new members were initiated into the Omega Delta club, dramatic dra-matic and speech fraternity, last Saturday night. They are: Dilts Workman, Alvin Cottam and Joyce Wilkin, St. George; Mary Pratt, Hinckley; Mary Webb, Hurricane; and Homer Christensen, Delta. These enrollees have all done work in dramatics. D.J.C. No details have been neglected for a successful Junior Prom on April 16, according to Nelda At-kin, At-kin, chairman of the committee. All that is required between now and that date, she states, is work. Placement' of decorations will begin Monday. The class members have been working for weeks making flowers and caring for other details. The theme of the Prom this year is, "Moonlight and Roses". D. J. C. Nearly 50 boys took Navy screening tests at the college last Friday. The purpose of the tests is to select prospective timber for special training in the officer reserve re-serve corps. Several former students stu-dents were among those taking the tests. D. J. C. The sophomores won the college intramurals in softball which ended end-ed Tuesday. They were undefeated unde-feated in the series. The freshmen fresh-men were second. |