Show I i I II Seventh Graf Oratory ory Contest Draws Many Entries Merits high Praise The me Tue annual Washington's Washington s birthday oratory contest featured b by the ManU Manti High School held Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day daO afternoon was witnessed by one ono of the tho largest crowds had one of or orthe the largest groups of contestants I and the quality of the orations ranked ranked rank- rank i ed cd among the finest eVer eer heard from the local platform six fix sl entered the time finals four finals four I r young oung ladies ladles and two young men men The I latter Sam Parry and Ther Therald 1 Jensen Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen were were awarded first and second prizes respectively The Misses Letha Lowry Vera Anderson Lois 11 Sears and Bessie Bessle Taylor were the young ladies who were in the finals I Dr Knudson Professors Barton Darton and I Professor of the Snow College acted as judges Dr Geo Gea L. L Sears was the donor of the prizes This year Oear was the first time a second I prize has been awarded Tho The prizes wore were gold medals properly engraved Mr Parry entitled his oration Grit and ably set forth in his argument that it requires grit to develop the mental physical and spiritual elements essential to sue- sue cess In individual and community j life His argument was clear cut i couched in fine language and I ered in a a. convincing progressive J I I aau Sam Parry masterly manner His close opponent Therald Jensen Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen spoke spoke- of the moral fiber and spirituality as a fundamental tal element clement in success The Tho easy and free delivery of his argument his flowing flawing phrases and the tho content i of his substance marked him a close doso second to tho the winner All AH the young ladleS ladies I themselves with singular honor The effort of each was worthy of the finest praise and each one though not a prize winner won a triumph for herself hersel that will be more lasting and beneficial than a prize in III ma ma- material material things Six other students tried in the eli u- u try tryouts outs It Is reported that the judges had great difficulty in i reducing the number from all aU those who had entered to the number who i could be heard in the finals Those who did not appear in the finals wore were Beth Shand Lorna Voorhees Dorothy Olsen Glen Kenner Lillian Hanson and Grace Nielson the orations the high school orchestra favored with an as an Interlude a girls Continued on Page Pace 8 I Seventh Orator i i Contest i l' l lI I Continued from page 1 1 4 chorus from the high school fa z i Memories 1 and andas as a final musi musj number a mixed chorus of the hi I school students sang Land of F Fri Fr dom r I. I Mr Judd acted as chairman the oratorio f I I Those who have sponsored the the they S contests by awarding pd I I II I thus us far far are r. r a are re Lewis Anderson A ABarton Al AlBarton Barton Peter Lund Judge Woolley Atty Lewis Larson Ai AI Peterson and this year ear Dr Geo I Sears JI Those in char charge e of the oration oration orations s. intensely appreciative of the a aI a asa I tance lance rendered by persons out of the school sc-hool in making these o 0 tory contests successful Were not for the public in or of orI offling I ing to finance the prizes the con cont cof cofI I would be e minus one of its most s sti 1 I ul factors an and were it not nott the good will of competent judges judg give ghe their time an and service to h judge the efforts another tell e factor for success would be minus minu The Lions Club of Ephraim P vided the judges for the ellmina and the Snow College R provided t I judges in the finals The hi lI school wishes to acknowledge t appreciation to Dr Sears for then the fl I prizes and to the Ephraim ins for their judges J j t |