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Show t Former resident helps BYU team Robert D. Hatch, a former Bountiful businessman busi-nessman and now an assistant professor of communications at BYU, coached the BYU debate team to a fourth place finish recently in the national Cross Examination Debate Association. Asso-ciation. (CEDA). CEDA involves 3 14 colleges and universities. HATCH SAID that unlike basketball or other competitive events, a national championship in debate depends on the accumulation of points rather than on a win at a final tournament. Competition for the year culminated with the CEDA nationals in Wichita. Kan. The University Univer-sity of Southern Illinois, which had been leading lead-ing for some time, took the national champion- j ship, followed by the University of California at Los Angeles, 2nd and Florida State University, Univer-sity, 3rd. A SON of the late Sisson C. and Hazel C. Hatch of Ogden. Hatch graduated from Weber High School in 1948. He received a bachelor's degree in history and communications in 1959 and a master's degree in public address in 1960--both from BYU. He operated his own busines: in Bountiful for about 20 years and worked at Hill AFB before joining the BYU faculty this year. Hatch and his wife Beverly Sedgwick have two children. chil-dren. He served as an Army sergeant in Korea j and a Near East-Trans British mission for the ! LDS Church. |