Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-12
CUSACK TAKES FIRST PLACE IN
fourteenth ANNUAL lYF0RD PRIZE
SPEAKING CONTEST AT COLBY CHAPEL

The Fourteenth Annual Lyford In
terscholastic Prize Speaking contest
was held yesterday afternoon and
evening in the Memorial chapel at
Colby college. The final speakers
were heard in the evening and prizes
awarded at the end of. the program.
Academy, Ashburnham, Mass, won
first prize. Last year Cusack also
carried off first honors. The second
prize was awarded to Edward Ber-
gen of Classical high school. Wor-.
cester, Mass. The third prize win
ner was Frances Shaw of Easthamp-
ton high school, Easthampton, Mass,
and the fourth prize was awarded to
Carlton Spencer Of Sullivan high
school, Berwick.
Owing to the unusually large num-
Der of contestants for the prizes, it
was necessary for the committee in
charge or the affair to hold the pre-
liminary speeches in several different
recitation rooms and the college
chapel. The list Of 73 speakers was
divided up into five groups, each with
two judges and the winners in each
group formed the final group Of con-
testants whose speeches were given
i'll the evening. All of the small pre-
liminary groups were held at $50
o'clock, directly after the taking OF
the Lyford picture of all the contest
ants.
The program for the preliminary
speakers was as follows:
Group Judges. Dean Nettie NJ.
Runnals, Prof. Curtis H. Morrow.
Thomas Scott French, Wilfred Ear
land Bailey. John Grant, Calvin
Brown. Frederic H. Young. Herbert
Cole, Earl Isaac Brown. Ralph Henry
DeOrsay, Francis Eliot L:---rabee.
Bradford Howard Hutchins, Carlton
Il. Leopold, Walter Beckwith.
Group Judges, Prof. j. William
Black, Prof. George F. Parmenter.
Scott Babcock, Moreton G.. Abbott,
Fred D. Jenkins, Harold Todd Alb
bolt, Harold John Moody, Edward
Morley, James Madison Bridges. Dana
Merle Moore, Donald Ireland, Alvanus
Bennett, Percy Merrill, Maurice E.
Graves, Vaughan H. Clay, Lawrence
Works, Stanley Stevens.
Group 3-Judges, Prof. Charles p.
Chapman, Prof. Antonio P. s lvides.
William c. Cusack, Howard Goody.
Robert Wagg, Donald w. Weber,
David F. Hoxie, David Mclean, Leon
: Pota shinski, Edward Bergen, Robert
Scott, Edward Merrill, Walter E.
Wilson, Cecil Harrinbine, Harry ].
earle. Clifton Conary, Rodney Hall
Bartlett.
Group Judges: Professor Thorn
as B. Ashcraft, Mr.. Everett Fiske
Strong, Freddie Benjamin Philbrick.
Donald Bates Mitchell, Don Defiance
Irish, James Ashworth, earle c. Per-
Tnh McNonohfny, ~
Googins, Clifford Davis, Wesley Pat
terson, Marion N. Rhoades. Leigh d.
Chase, Walter S. NOVEL;, James Nc
Dougall, Ralph Haskell. Elmer
, Campbell.
Group 5-Judges: Professor Clar-
| ence H. White. Miss Florence E.
Dunn, Prescott Emery, Paul Chesley.
Charles Nelson, Harry Stern, Bur-
dette O'Connor, Howard D. Fowlie.
Randolph Engstrom. Jacob Hoffman,
Cleveland Sleeper, Aubrey u. Fender
son, Kenneth L. Hunter, Henry
Lynch, Gray Curtis, Francis Shaw.
The winners last year were: First,
William C. Cusack of Gushing Aca-
deny, Asburnham, Mass; second.
Donald w. Wcbber of Edward Little
High school. Auburn; third and
fourth prizes divided between Rob-
ert w. Coyne of Bangor high school
and Leon P. Townsend Of Newport
high school,.
The winners of the group contests
in the afternoon preliminary speeches
We're announced at 100 o'clock by
President Arthur J. Roberts. This
action has been the custom for the
years that the contest has been held.
All of the contestants being required
to appear in the chapel at this hour
and the contestants for the finals are
announced by the presiding officer.
The speakers for the finals were as
follows: Frederic H. Young, Earl
Isaac Brown. Ralph Henry DeOrsay.
Carlton Spencer. Scott Babcock, AL
vanus Bennett, Maurice E. Graves,
William c. Cusack, David F. Hoxie,
Leon Potashinski, Edward Bergen.
James Ashworth, Fred T. Googins.
Ralph Haskell, Elmer Campbell, RAN
dolph Engstrom, Henry Lynch, Gray
Curtis, Francis Shaw.
The presiding officer Of the eve
ming was President Arthur J. Roberts
OF Colby college and the board Of
members Of the college faculty: DR..
j. William Black, chairman; Profess
sors Webster Chester, Euclid Helie
and Herbert C. Libby.
This morning all of the contestants
who are to remain for the day are to
be taken for rides in automobiles
about the city and shown all Of the
local sights. A greater majority Of
the speakers are to return to their
homes this morning and afternoon.