Evening star., 1928-04-10
G|RLSOF VIRGINIA
! LEAD AS ORATORS
Win Eight of Twelve Con-
tests Held-Different in
Maryland.

Two more Virginia high school stu
dents who have won their school finals
were announced this morning as con-
tenders for the championship of the
Virgins district in The Stars area OF
the Fifth National Oratorical Contest.
Alma Ferguson of the Remington
High School and Virginia Campbell OF
the George Mason High School OF Del
RAY are the latest school champions To
be chosen, Their victories Will give
overwhelming representation TO girls in
the Virginia group contests If the ratio
between bows and girls in school finals
Is 70 continue. OF the IL Virginia
schools which have chosen their repre-
sentativeS eight have selected girls as
their SpokeSmen.
In MARYLAND the situation was Just
the reverse in the results of the five
Eroup meets of that district. Miss Mary
Elgenia Hardy of the Takoma-Silver
Spring High School was the only girl
90 win first place in those competitions
and she will compete in field of four
boys for the Maryland district cham
pionShip.
Senior in High School.
Miss Ferguson. l6-year-old senior of
the Remington High School. will bid for
Grafton on The Present Significance
of the Constitution" the speech with
which she won her school finals re-
Gently. Her initial victory in the Fifth
National Oratorical Contest is not Miss
Ferguson's first conquest in fields of
literary effort, as she won prize in an
essay contest on THE Advantages Of
fered in rauouier County" and first
honors in another competition with an
essay on Consolidation of Schools" !"
She is the daughter of Mfr. and Mrs. S.
7, Ferguson of Remington. is president
of her class at high school and will be
vsledictorian in the graduation exer-
ciSes in June. Next Fall she plans TO
enter William and Mary College at
Williamsburg where she will study to
become teacher
Miss Campbell. the George Mason
High School champion, is the second
OF this years contestants to express an
ambition to become an artist and when
ehe completes her high school course
abe intends 10 enroll in an art school
in addition to her fondness for art,
Miss Campbell is an athlete. She plays
golf and tennis and she is one of the
Heading swimmers in her school. Horse
back riding also is favorite recreation
She IS Is years old.
Next Competition Friday.
Miss Campbell Friday night viii enter
the second Virginia district group meet
ing at Alexandria. In that competition
abe viii compete In field which will
Include the representatives of the Alex
@ndria High School the Clifton High
school, the Haymarket High School
and the Fairfax High School. The
meet. to be staged in the auditorium
OF the Alexandria High School. will be
presided over by Capt. Thurlow White.
president of the Alexandria Kiwanis
Club.
Miss Ferguson viii speak next in the
NTH Virginia group competition to be
held at Warrenton Friday night. April
20 Judge George Latham Fletcher. of
the twenty-sixth judicial circuit of
Virginia, viii be the presiding officer
and the other contestants on the pro-
gram VIII include Miss Lucy VIII. the
champion of the Warrenton High
School, and the as vet unchosen repre-
sentative of the Bealeton and Mar
ahan High Schools