The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-05-04
CEISEN TAKES SECOND PLACE
in STATE ORATORY CONTEST

Bernard Geisen, Wolf Point
high school boy. representing the
northeast Montana district at the
state oratorical contest. at Great
Falls last Friday night, won splen-
did honors for himself, his dis
trict and his school and a cash
prize of $50 as the winner OF
second place. His friends and par
ents are proud of JnIs fine young
student who is but Is years of age
His Grafton on the Development
of the Constitution was published
in The Herald two weeks ago
The Montana state contest, a
part of national and interna-
tional contest, was sponsored by
the Great Falls Tribune and car
ried through in generous style to
a splendid success. All expenses
of the contestants to the state
contest were paid by The Tribune
and the students nicely entertain
while in Great Falls. The Tri-
bune's story of the state contest
follows:
/ Willard Schendel of Billings is
Montana's champion high school
orator
Taking first place in state ora
/ torical contest conducted here
Friday evening under the auspices
of The Tribune, the Billings high
school boy will represent this
state in the national semifinals in
Kansas City. May II. Victory in
the Kansas City event would put
him in the national finals in
Washington on May 25. The in
ternational finals will be held
Oct. 13.
AS winner of first place in the
competition at the Grand theatre
Friday evening, Mr.. Schendel also
was presented with SIS in gold,
the award of The Tribune, which
also gave $50 in gold to Bernard
Geisen of Wolf Point. second and
SIS in gold to Carolyn Delaney of
4 Till Wv. i<-f
Erickson presided The judges
We're Associate Justice John A.
Mathews of Montana supreme
court District Judge John j.
Greene of Choteau, F. E. Strana-
/ han of Fort Benton. c. e. Man
ming, superintendent of schools at
Lewistown, and l. w. Smith, prin-
cipal of Central high school,
Great Falls.
The Tribune, cooperating in a
plan in which other leading news
papers of the United States are
participating, conducted the con-
test for Montana. The competi-
tors Friday evening represented
nine districts of the state. The
general subject was the develop
ment and present significance o.
the constitution of the United
States. The newspaper conduct
ing the contest in each state pays
the expenses of the competitors in
that state and of the winner to the
semifinals, or to the national or
international finals if the state
representative should advance
that far. A trip to Europe will be
provided for the eight national
finalists.
Other Contestants
In addition to the winners, those
who met Friday in the Montana.
finals were: Felicia McLemore.
Baker, district No. 6 Margaret
Benjamin, Roundup, district No. 8,
Kenneth Mortag, Cascade, dis
trict No. /; Raymond Laswell,
Shelby, district No. 8; Joseph
Wright. Havre, district No. a. and
Lloyd Beirness, Whitefish, dis
trict No. 2.
The contestants were the guests
of The Tribune Friday afternoon
and evening. At noon there was
a luncheon at Hotel Rainbow. At
2 o'clock a photograph of the visi-
tors, Governor Erickson and MEM
bers of The Tribune organization
was taken. Then there was a
motor ride. At The Tribune
plant was inspected At 6 there
was a dinner at Hotel Rainbow,
Governor Erickson being a guest.
Willard SchendeI is II years old
and sophomore in the Billings
high school. His father, A. D.
Schendel, an oil producer, accom-
panied him here. The young ora
tor and his father will return to
this morning in an air
plane, a promise the elder Mr.
Schendel made, conditioned on the
sons winning the state contest.
Theatre OverfIows
Tire Grand was filled to over
flowing and the interest in the
addresses was close Prior to the
speaking a concert was given by
the high school orchestra. In
opening the program, Governor
Erickson called attention to the
work being done in the national
and international competitions, in
which the. fundamentals Of good
are being discussed
This is the fifth national and the