Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-19
ORATORS CHOSEN
IN FOUR SCHOOLS
Girls Take Three Positions in
Elimination Contests
in This Area.

-Four schools in The Star area have
selected their representatives in the
Fourth National Oratorical Contest
with girls taking three of the tour
positions. The schools are: st. Paui ;
Academy. Holy Cross Academy ana
st. Adams School for Boys, or the
District of Columbia, and the Lee
jackson High School of Alexandra.
Each Of the chosen orators VIII com
pete In their respective group runner
up contests for the honor or competing
in the finals in which the speaker for
The Star territory will be chosen.
Helen Cogan. 10. of the tirst-year
class at St. Paul's Academy, won hel
school championship when she defeat.
ed seven other contestants. most OF
them seniors and juniors, with an
ora ton on THE Constitution ana the
Importance of Preserving 1t To-Day.
Frank Wiegand 17-year-old senior,
won second place and Agnes ONeiil,
Is was awarded third honors. The
other contestants included Mary
Thompson, Arthur Harvey. Betty
Renner. Margaret Hurst and Jose
phine Crabll. A committee OF ST
Paul's faculty members, headed oE
Rev. Thomas +. McQuigan, served as
judges.
Wants TO BE Writer.
Miss Coean. who is of slight build.
but possessed of an ample share OF
ambition. states that her first thought
nj the present moment is TO at least
equal the pace set for her school last
wear by Joseph Haltigan, who won the
1926 private and parochial schools
District finals. After that-wel, her
dreams. she says, include becoming
IAN all.round business woman and
writer. and travelling" She is within
reach of the three-month European
tour, beginning July >, to be awarded
a student in one of the 80 partlclpat-
ing schools in The Star territory.
Margaret Bernadine Hester, Is. was
chosen as the representative OF Holy
Cross Academy. Her speech on The
Constitution" was judged best by a
committee of the school faculty. Irene
Acton, IS. was awarded second place
with her Grafton on the same subject.
Miss Hester whose chief interests
have always been in school dramatlcs
though this is her first oratorical
Efforts the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Michael Hester, ST., of 1923 Rock
Creek Ford road.
Editor of Almanac.
Godfrey Barber. l7-year-old senior
of St. Adams School for Boys and
editor of that schools Weekly
Almanac. will represent his school
with his grafton. John Marshall and
the Constitution. Barber, who is
son of Col. and Mrs. A. B. Barber or
Bethesda, Nd. has participated In
extemporaneous practice in pubic
speaking throughout his four years at
ST. Adams and is devoting much or
the Easter vacation period, which his
school is now enjoying, 10 perfectlng
himself in the delivery of his Grafton
on John Marshall
Lee.Jackson High School in Alex
andria, Va, reports that Jennie Ward,
17.year.old senior. will represent the
Lee-Jackson High School with The
Contribution of My State TO Constr
tutional Government" Louise Wat
kins, 16-year-old sophomore, speak
ing on the same subject, was desig-
mated as alternate by the faculty
Judges, Miss Frances Walker, Miss
Frances Cuatt and Mrs. Ruth A.
Jenkins The other contestants In the
Lee.Jackson finals included Mildred
Deane, Robert Craig. Raymond Lynch
and Hazel King. Miss Ward is the
daughter of Mrs. J. r. Ward OF La
conia, Va.