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Show THESE DEBATERS AND speech students represent Woods Gross High School which won top honors during a recent trip to Arizona. Win 'armfulP of trophies The bus home carrying the Woods Cross Drama Department certainly seemed a few pounds heavier as they returned with more than their share of trophies won at the Southwestern Forensics Invitational In-vitational Championship Tournament Tourna-ment held in Tempe, Ariz. Over fifty schools, as far east as New York and as far west as California, attended this prestigious competition competi-tion held on the Arizona State University Uni-versity campus during January 30-Feb. 30-Feb. 3. IN HUMOROUS Interpretation, out of a field of one-hundred-nine competitors, six of the twelve semi-finalists were from Woods Cross. They were the following: Stuart Mitchell, Christopher Thor-nock, Thor-nock, Adrienne Jacobsen, Bill Christensen, Lacy Holbrook and Amy Price. There were 113 competitors in the area of Poetry Interpretation. Out of the 12 semi-finalists, three were chosen from Woods Cross. They were Stuart Mitchell, Kelly Christensen and Larry Nelson. IN BOTH areas of Dramatic Interpretation In-terpretation and Oratory, Susan Higginson double-broke into semifinals. semi-finals. Erin Trenbeath also broke into Oratory. One-third of the semi-finalists in the field of Serious Interpretation were selected from Woods Cross. They were Christopher Thornock, Adrienne Jacobsen, Greg Hansen, and Ranae Slaughter. In the area of Expository Speaking, Marie Crosby Cros-by was a semi-finalist. A RARE experience in any tournament tour-nament is double-breaking into the final round. Two students from Woods Cross achieved this high honor: Susan Higginson, in Oratory Ora-tory and Dramatic Interpretation; and Christopher Thornock, in Humorous Interpretation and Serious Se-rious Interpretation. Others breaking into final rounds were as follows: Stuart Mitchell (humorous interpretation) and Adrienne Jacobsen (humorous interpretation). in-terpretation). Stuart Mitchell received re-ceived the first place trophy, Christopher Thornock received the second place trophy, and Adrienne Jacobsen achieved fourth place in humorous interpretation. interpre-tation. SUSAN HIGGINSON walked away with the third place trophy for her oratory . To top everything off, the Woods Cross High Drama Department Depart-ment received the second-place Sweepstakes trophy out of the 50 schools attending the tournament. It added another well-deserved feather to the Department's cap. The Drama Department is under the direction of Ms. Bonnie B. Hobbs. THE "50th Annual Leland H. Monson Championship Forensics Tournament" was held at Weber State College last Saturday. Thirty-six Utah schools attended. Woods Cross had a squad of 26 of the 800 students participating and had 16 students break into quarterfinals. quarter-finals. Those chosen were Marc Calder in impromptu speaking; Susan Higginson Hig-ginson in oratory; Larry Nelson, Delly Christensen, Debbie Lar-rabee, Lar-rabee, Mary Kay Schneider, and Mary Moody in Poetry Interpretation; Interpreta-tion; Greg Hansen, Lauri Dunn,-Kristi Dunn,-Kristi Larson, Holle Tibbetts, and Bekki Norman in Dramatic Interpretation; Inter-pretation; Stuart Mitchell, Brandon Bran-don Hobbs, Christopher Thornock and Brian Floisand in humorous interpretation. in-terpretation. EIGHT OF these people made it into semi-finals: Marc Calder, Susan Higginson, Mary Moody, Lauri Dunn, Greg Hansen, Christopher Christ-opher Thornock, Brandon Hobbs and Stuart Mitchell. Four of these people made it into the prestigious final round where they received either plaques or trophies. Plaques were awarded to Mary Moody and Christopher Thornock. Trophies were won by Brandon Hobbs, third place and Stuart Mitchell, first place in humorous interpretation out of 800 students. Woods Cross took third place Sweepstakes in individual events. Congratulations to the Woods Cross Drama Department for a job well done! TEACHERS AT SOUTH Davis Junior High appear to be seeing double at times because of 15 sets of twins attending the school Three sets are in the seventh grade, seven sets in the eighth grade, and five sets are in the ninth grade. They are as follows: fol-lows: seventh grade, Brian and David Interdonato, Troy and Jennifer Reich, Jenny and Brandi Galbraith. Eighth grade, Leslie and Lance Goodsell, Janie and Julie Ortiz, Or-tiz, Kirby and Kasey Cullimore, Julie and Jill Hansen, Kevin and Kalene Gillespie, Todd and Chad Benson, Melinda and Marcey Sonntag. Ninth grade, Gina and Caroline Car-oline Leopardi, Melissa and Donavan Anderson, Korin and Kristin Wilson, Scott and Eric Smith and Evan and Eric Hatch. |