Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-26
Santa Fe High School Again
Carries OFF First Prize for
0ratory; Donald Wilson, Az
buquerquc, Wins Silver Medal
ROSWELL HIGH WINS
DECLAMAT0Ry MEDAL
GIee Club Of New Mexico State
Normal Scores Another ri.
unph at Closing Exercises
of Educational Convention.

Santa Fe repeated It's favorIte stunt
last evening Of capturing the gold
medal In the state oratorical contest.
within the past few years, the Capital
city has carried home several times
from the state educational conven-
tions. the much coveted prize. Her
champion last night was Miss Frances
Lesson. who presented her practical
and appealing subject, Commercial
value OF Good Roads In a convln-
cling manner.
The silver medal went to Albuquer-
duc, Donald Wilson capturing il with
his Grafton Peace an eloquent plea
for the cessation OF warfare Miss
Anna Marie Nolan, Of the Normal
university Mt East Las Vegas, stood
third i'm the estlmo ton of the judges,
with an Grafton on Irish History"
The other contestants. twelve in all.
stood In the following order: The
Cali OF Our Nation" by Charles Ster-
rift. of Roswell "The Cost" by Cliff
ford Griffin OF Ration: Honesty and
Efficiency IN Public Service by Cow
den Evans OF state College: "univer-
"a, iea ps'. ~ ""o'se s ua,'ne y CO .n
Nation" by Harry Cumpsten. of Hag-
erman: Architects OF American His
,orv .hv pohsr, c,rouard ~ rucu,n-
cart; THE Gem City" by Lloyd
Mayer; America and World Peace"
.sAon sfevsco,s ,,iaa for rnaaars" nv
pa,ea, r.,a
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Tue 'nuS'o was 'en"e'o' ps VI. ~,
m.A'oo u''Ness"s ".a,c p'a,''
a'Dr1ae'1ae rs , $500. ~
cies c,,h u,ss ,rcA,,ister Of CAL
i'm rendered = solo Dr Frank II
ri 'paho~,s nrasiaad ara announead
~ 800. s.,,o s,'saos ,,asa. County
ean, u . wsn,a., ,,o De-, peavsn
~ an pa,, rrsrar,a,, Tha inayer
~ 50. asssat ~, thansht and com.
.' y no "ra ~ Tax os Aim.
roo,s u,uhs ,,,aa,nss ~ san,a
ne ia .ss.s,ens ennarintendent Of
p,,,sa tns,r,,ctlo, rglaanlso paca
nm ~. aon,a@, saassho,a ,r tba Central
. "s $3.50 s,",A.a,., .h..a,,
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The judges of the declamatory con-
test in the high school auditorium
had n difficult task and so close was
the merit OF the deelalmers that no
two Of tho four judges had marked
the Same contestant FIRST ana the flrst
prlze winner was the only one, VINO
had two seconds to ms credit IN ad-
dltion 10 one first. This was Arthur
Farnsworth. Of Roswell, the last de-
claimer. whose defamation was The
Waterman"
The second prize went to Margaret
I.arkin. OF the Las Vegas high school.
whose defamation was; THE Honor
OF the Woods" Third was Miss Jua-
nita Schaff, OF Tucumcari, the first
speaker Of the evening, whose subject
was The Leper.p The other confess
tants were: "Toby." by Leona
Grcenclay, Of the Normal university
al East Las Vegas; "Jim's Leap" by
Marguerite Sweet. OF soeorro; Dan
ger of the Spirit of Conquest. ny
Ferdinand Koch. Of santa re; 'The
prnnkards Dying Soliloduy,' by LUIS
NJ, Garcia, OF the Menaui school OF
Alhnquerque; Tho Doom OF cynth't
and Claudius" by llda sganzlnl. OF
Alhuqnerqne; who's AFRAID. by Hal
lie Mitchell. OF Portaies; How the
Ia Rue Stakes Were Lost by Leona
Mayse. Of Ration: and Extract From
Daniel wohsteris RtinSer Hill ora
tion." by Pat 7. Garrett Of Las
Cruces. whose name has Q familiar
ring TO New Mexico's ears. In fact.
tho names on the program betray
something of the cosmopolitan char
acter of the New Mexico high schools.
for among the DISCLAIMERS were youth
OF Spanish. Italian. German. Irish.
English and American descent The
judges were: Miss Lutte z. Stearns. oil
Milwaukee; Mrs. Wallace i. QUINN.
of Carrizozo: Assistant superintendent
Of Public Instruction Filadelfo Bacs,
and Paul A. i. Walter, Of Santa Fe.
Normal University Triumph.
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