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Show SUSC forensic students garner honors at B.Y.U. tournament's outstanding speakers. Gary Mullins, costumed as Bram Stoker's immortal vampire, vam-pire, won a third place trophy for his expository speech "Count Dracula." Expository speaking, Van Dyke said, is an event requiring the utilization of displays and visual aids to teach or inform. Also winning forensic honors were Snow College transfer Linda Reeder who received fourth place in oral interpretation in-terpretation and Tony Hardman, a freshman from Salt Lake City, who broke into final rounds in oral interpretation, persuasive and informative speaking. The T-Birds are now making preparations to host a major collegiate tournament on their own home ground, the SUSC campus, December 5-6. Southern Utah State College forensic students are busily adding trophies to their new trophy case -- another six were won over the weekend at a Brigham Young University meet in Provo. "We've done it again," T-Bird debate coach Steve Van Dyke said elatedly, "we entered 14 people in the tournament and everyone of them broke into semi or final rounds in forensic competition." Transfer students from Snow College, Kaelyn Johnson and Tina Mortenson, received a first place debate trophy. Third place in championship debate was won by Diane Halverson, a West Jordan freshman fresh-man and her colleague, Gary Mullins, Salt Lake City. Cedar City freshmen Tim Tucker and Joe Burns won fourth place awards as did Cal Rollins and Steve Cook, both from Kearns. Van Dyke noted that Mr. Cook was recognized as one of the |