Evening star., 1927-10-12
FIVE JUDGES NAMED
/. FOR ORATORY TEST
Members Skilled in Three
Languages to Be Used in
Competition.

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national Oratorical Contest, to be held
in the Washington Auditorium at
o'clock Friday night, were announced
today by Randolph Leigh, founder
and director of the contest institution.
Each a master of the three lam
guages which viii he used by the con-
testants in the delivery of their re-
spective orations, the judges are: DIR.
Herman q. Van Royen, Minister of
the Netherlands TO the United States;
DIR. Glen l.. Swiggett. chairman of
the national council of foreign serv-
ice training and lecturer in the For
eign Service School of Georgetown
University: DR.. Guillermo Rivera,
professor of Spanish at Harvard Uni
versity; DR.. Richard Henry Wilson,
head of the department of romance
languages at the University of Vir-
ginia, and DIR. Richard Frederick An
tonic Moller, Belgian engineer and
author.
TranslatiOnS for Audience.
Although printed translations of the
French and Mexican contestants ora
tions win be given to the audience,
the FIVE judges, each occupying a seat
removed from the other four, will rem
der their individual. Judgment on the
verbal speeches, as delivered by the
contestants. The findings of each
judge will be written upon separate
ballots without conference and com
( piled hy officials of the contest while
the scattered jury members remain
in their seats. This process was fol-
lowed in the finals of the Fourth Ma
tional Oratorical Contest held May 81
in the same auditorium, at which time
f1ye members of the United States Su.
Nn4ar AZ 3.aI
DIR. Van Royen is a graduate of
the University of Groningen, doe
tor Of laws. Prior to his appointment
as Minister of the Netherlands 10 this
country last Spring. his diplomatic
career took him to Germany, Turkey
and England.sin addition to the ma
tions in which he has been his coun-
try's Minister. including, with the
United Statess Japan, Spain and
italy,. Besides his diplomatic work
DIR. Van R6yen has distinguished
himself as a man of letters.
Interested i'm Latin America.
Br Swiggett. the Georgetown
University lecturer has been keenly
interested in international relations.
especially as they concern the Latin
American countries. He organized
g the second Pan-American Scientific
Congress held in Washington 10 years
ago, the proceedings of which he pub
lished es Government publication of
1 volumes in four languages. DR..
Swfggett was born in Indiana and
was educated abroad. He has served
as professor of modern languages in
several of the country's larger uni
versifieS.
DIR. Rivera was born in Porto Rico
and he has been teaching at Harvard
since his graduation there in 1909.
He is the author of the Spanish ver-
sion of James Bruce's South Amer
lea" and of En- Espana" and he has
collaborated in the writing of num-
Der Of modern language text books
DR.. Moller. a. native of Liege. Bel
glum, is a distinguished electrical and
hydraulic engineer, having followed
that profession in Europe and in Cen
trail and South America. He is the
author of articles and books onA gov
ernmental problems in French and
Spanish. He supervised for the gov
ernment of Ecuador. the organization
OF the department of English in the
University of Quito. one of the oldest
and best known educational institu-
tions in the Western Hemisphere, hav.
ing beer founded in 1868.
University Professor 25 Years.
DIR. Wilson has headed the depart.
ment OF romance languages at the
University Of Virginia for Is years.
He was born in Kentucky and edu-
Gated chiefly in France, Spain, Italy
and Germany, and French today is
the language of his household He is
widely known as the author of fiction
and history in French, Spanish and
English.
Four of the five contestants
Georges Guiot-GuiIlain of France,
James Keith Watson of England,
Frederick p. Hotson of Canada and
Arturo Garcia Fermenti of Mexico
were guests of Business High School
at a special assembly shortly. before
noon today When the visitors were
presented to the student body of the
school they greeted their hosts with
brief message from the high school
students of their own lands.