Evening star., 1926-05-24
MISS POSEY GETS
CLUB INVITATION
KiWanians to Have Girl
Orator as Honor Guest
on Thursday.

Miss Myrtle Posey. 17-year.old East
ern High School girl and The Stars
representative in the third annual
National Oratorical Contest finals at
the Washington Auditorium on June
4, will be a guest of honor at the
weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis Club
on Thursday, 1t was announced today.
Mark Lansburgh. president OF the
club, states that he has invited both
Miss Posey and her mother, Mrs. ID.
M. Posey, whom the daughter credlts
with being largely responsible for her
winning in this territory. They are to
be entertained by the Kiwanians at
their regular meeting on the roof OF
the Hotel Washington.
1t is possible that Miss Posey will
be persuaded to give her ten-minute
oration on Americas Contribution
to Constitutional Government" mas
much as the Kiwanis will be unable
to attend the June finals. On this
evening they are slated to meet del
egation of out-of. town kiwanians, who
are to be here for several hours that
night. At any rate, President Lans-
burgh says the Kiwanians want an
opportunity to wish her luck" in the
national finals.
Girls Have Majority.
The victory of Miss Guita Bearman
of North High School, Minneapolis, at
Chicago last night is a distinct feather
in the caps of the feminine contin-
gent, inasmuch as this assures the
girls a majority in the national finals
here on June 4. Miss Bearman is
the fourth girl to be chosen as a dis
trict finalist out Of six selected. There
Is still an opportunity for the girls
to win fifth. place among the seven,
as two out of the seven contestants
in the Philadelphia finals Friday night
are girls.
Rear Admiral Luther f. Gregory
chief of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, and Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries.
chief. Chemical Warfare Service, were
announced today as the official time
keepers for the national finals.
Admiral Gregory and Maj. Gen. Fries
will sit directly In front of the stage
and the moment any one of the seven
speakers exceeds 10 minutes they will
be signaled to stop. The contest man
agement insists that all of the
speakers keep within their time and
provides that any speaker who fails
to heed the warning of the time
timekeepers will be provided with
time and stop watches for their i'm
portant duty.
Randolph Leigh, in charge of the
local Oratorical Contest Bureau, to-
day received a telegram announcing
that Joseph Mullarky of Augusta,
Ga. who won at Kansas City, will
be the first of the six out-of- town
contestants to arrive in Washington.
Mullarky believes it will be wise for
him to follow the same policy he
pursued at Kansas City, where he
arrived early for the contest and
rested up for the big occasion.
Comes From Noted School.
Mullarkay will represent the Acad-
emy of Richmond County of Augusta.
Ga, in the contest. which is one of
the oldest boys academies in the
country. This academy was visited by
George Washington and attended by
the late Woodrow Wilson while the
latter's father was pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Augusta.
Miss BArman, the latest district
f1nalist to be selected. is II years old
and is president Of the North High
Girls League at Minneapolis. She
has been on the debating team for
three years and this year is captain.
This Is the second honor accorded her
lnasmuch as she already has won a
State extemporaneous contest this
year. She will be accompanied to
washington by c. L. Saxby, one of
the contest managers in her territory