Evening star., 1928-04-08
VIRGINIA ORATORS
MEET THIS WEEK
Falls Church and Alexandria
Hold Group Contests Thurs
Gay and Friday.

with the Maryland district awaiting
its championship battle and the private
and palochial school district rapidly
completing It's field Of spokesmen. the
Virginia district will enter the group
phase of It's participation in The stars
area OF the Fifth National Oratotical
Contest this week when two gioupS OF
its schools meet at Fails Church ana
Alexandria. Thursday and Friday nights.
respectively.
THE three remaining group meets OF
the scheduled five will h2 staged curing
the week of April Is at Hernoon on
Monday. at Leeshurg on Tues lay ana al
Warrenton on Friday.
First Meet Thursday.
vireinia's first group contest for selec-
ton OF State district finalists VII DC
between four orators at the Fails
Church High School at O'Clock nurS-
dav night. The Falls Church winner
will receive a $50 award.
The schools are the Falls ChIrcr
High School. the Washington-le2 Histl
School of BallSton, the Oakton H!sn
school and the Franklin sherman hlgn
school of Mclean. The Fails Ihurcn
school is the only one which has lot
vet chosen its champion. lts tulats
are to be held on the day OF tne group
meet. a.,
Harry M. Keyser, secretary of lhe
Washington Railway and Electric Co,
will preside. The orators VIII be TOTO
that they must confine their oratlons 70
10 minutes. One word spoken alter
time has been called automatically
drops contestant to last place
The three contestants ALREADY named
Josephine Sterling OF the washington
Lee High School, Dwight Brown OF tne
Oakton High School and Vncen'
Schermerhorn OF the FranKiln-Snermai'
High School.
tarv United states Tariff Commission
Louis Alderman. specialist in ADULT
education. United States Bureau oil
Education and George }. Jones. head
of the history department in the DIS
trict of Columbia public schools.
Alexandria Friday.
The second group contest this week
will be- held in the auditorium OF the
Alexandria High School at 8 O'Clock
Friday night where Ave school cham
pious will seek place In the Virginia
district finals and the group meet
award of 500. The competition will be
presided over by Capt Thurlow White,
president OF the Alexandria Kiwanis
Club
The schools. Alexandria High. Cliff
ton High, the Haymarket High. the
Fairfax High and the George Mason
High. None OF them has yet chosen a
spokesman
The Alexandria High School proposes
to make q real evening of the contest,
and win. draw or lose, II Is going 10
fete all the contestants and members
of the audience with dance immedi-
atelv after the decision Is announced
The Alexandria High School Orchestra
will play
The Judges: Representative r. Wal
ton Moore of Virginia, Arthur s. Flem-
ing. instructor in the public speaking
department of National University, and
Fred p. Myers, director of the legal
debating class at National University
The winners of the two meets to be
held this week viii compete, each in
his own right with the winners OF the
group meets at Herndon. Leesburg and
Warrenton, who in turn will make their
own individual bids for victory. In the
Virginia district finals to be held at
Baliston. Wednesday. May ?.
Maryland already has staged its five
group meetings, and the winners are
awaiting the Maryland district finals to
be staged Monday. April 80. The dis
trict champions Of Maryland, Virginia,
the private and parochial schools OF the
District OF Columbia, and the cham
pions OF the five Washington public
high schools will compete with one an
A.. L. M~Ks Fas4
the championship OF this area in the
national oratorical contest. The cham
pion will receive cash award and the
grand prize OF a three-month tour Of
Europe next Summer with all expenses
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