Evening star., 1927-04-04
WILL PICK ORATOR
At LEONARDTOWN
Contest Tonight Win Be
Staged by Two Boys
and Two Girls.

Four young orators who have won
honors in their respective schools will
make another advance in the hard
march toward speechmaking fame
and it's rewards tonight, when they
meet in the Town Hall at Leonard
town to compete for a place in the
Maryland district finals of The Stars
area in the fourth National Oratorical
Contest.
Tonight's competitors are Emily
Elizabeth Davis of the Mechanicsville
High School, who will give battle
with an GRAFTON on Jefferson and the
Constitution; Mary Catherine Ster-
ling Of St Mary's Academy, Leonard
town, who will compete with her
speech on Our Constitution: Will
liam A Loker of Leonard Hall School,
Leonardtown, whose subject will be
THE Constitution" and Andrew c.
Gonder of the Charlotte Hall School,
who will speak on 'The Constitution. :"
Second Group Contest.
The contest tonight is the second
group competition in the Maryland
district, the first having been con-
-ducted last Friday night at Hyatts-
Vile, when Mark w. Woods of the
Hyattsville High School won the right
to enter that districts finals. The
third group contest of the Maryland
series will be held at McDonough In.
stitute, La Plata, tomorrow morning,
while others of the same series will
be conducted at Marlboro on Wednes.
day and at Rockville Friday. The
viz in Of 1R-iII
be the five contestants in the Mary
land finals at Hyattsville April A.
when a place in The Star area finals
and a cash prize of 500 are to be at
stake.
In addition 20 the third Maryland
group contest, the second similar meet
ing in the private and parochial
school district will be held at George
town University. in CASTOR Hall. to-
morrow night, when the representa-.
tives of the Immaculate Conception
Academy, St. Paul's Academy and
Notro Dame Academy will contest for
place in the finals of that district.
Girls VS.. Boys.
The rivalry between boys and girls
in the contests already held will re-
ceive added impetus from tonights
meeting in which the competing sides
are evenly divided-two boys and two
girls.
Miss Sterling. the 16-year-old repre-.
sentative of st. Mary's Academy, is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lyn-
wood j. Sterling of Leonardtown. she
is mighty active girl in her school
as she is captain of the basket ball
team, secretary of the athletic club
and an active member of the music
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this little lady finds time for tennis
and golf, as well as enough scholastic
work to put her among the students
Of highest standing. She is a junior
in the academy. and although she has
not yet decided what college she will
enter following her graduation, She
has already made up her mind that
she will be a teacher.
On the boys side of the field there
is William Loker, 11-year-old senior
of Leonard Hall. William is the son
Of Judge w. NJ. LolIer of the seventh
judicial circuit. and Mrs. Mabel +.
Loker. and the younger orator will
follow his fathers path toward the
bench William is going to study law
at Georgetown University. here. fol-
lowing his graduation. and his actiyi-
ties at Leonard Hall have given him no
member of the schools crack de-
batting team and president of the
Greek Letter Club. Speaking honors
are not exactly an innovation with
! this young man, for he won the first
place in the State Defamation Con-
test, held at st. Johns College. An
napolis, last April. Base ball and bas-
ket ball are the athletic fields in
which he works off his excess ener-
gies. and he is member of both
these teams at Leonard Hall.
Plans Teaching Career.
The second girl in tonight's contest
Is Emily Elizabeth Davis, 14-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lyn-
| wood Davis of Mechanicsyille. Miss
Davis is a brilliant junior in her high
school, as she is one of the leading
students scholastically and one of the
most active in athletics and club work.
She is q member of the debating team
and Of the Literary Society, as well
as a working player on all the ath-
letic teams She will be graduated in
June, 1928, and Like her little girl com
panion-opponent in the battle tonight,
she hopes to become a teacher, al
though she has not yet selected her
college or normal school.
Andrew c. GOnder, 16 years old. is
a sophomore at the Charlotte Hall
School. He is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. William Andrew Gonder OF
Oakland. and although his father is
a merchant. Andrew has selected law
as his profession. He will enter
Catholic University, here, when his
secondary school course is completed
In June, 1929. He is a member or
the foot ball and basket ball SQUADS
of Charlotte Hall, and between them
and his scholastic work he has time
for little else.
Each Of the contestants in the
Maryland districts group meetings
receives an engraved certificate from
The Star, and a second certificate IS
presented TO the schools whose
spokesman are winners in the group
contests. After the young orators go
on through the various competitions
until they are either eliminated or are
proclaimed United States champion
the supreme honor of the fourth Ma
tional Oratorical Contest-the certlh =
Gates are engraved with the record
established by their holders.
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