Evening star., 1928-03-21
ORATORY CONTESTS
ALL NEXT WEEK
Maryland Schools Plan
Nightly EsentS-CentraI
Examinations Today.

| While Central High School was con-
/ cluding itSe elimination today III prep
aration for its Semi-fianlS in the Fifth
| National Oratorical Contest. Maryland
schools rapidly were getting into Condi-
ton for the five group contests which
will be held, one each night. next week.
Central had previously reduced its
large competitive field 70 % candidates
for the school championship, and two
days ago the first group of these sur
vivorS were put through their oratorical
PAGES before the Central High School
faculty contest committee. A second
yrouD delivered its orationS before the
committee yesterday. and the last of the
% ore being heard today. The ten
speakers who. in the Judgment of the
committee we're the superior orators
will be announced tomorrow and these
will constitute the competitive field III
the Central semi-flnalS one week from
today
Spokesman for Maryland.
Among the Maryland school spokes
men who have been chosen to represent
their institutions in the coming compe-
titions and whose pictures are being
printed today, are Margaret Onalee
Oldenburg of the HyattSville High
| School. William H, Waters. ir, OF the
Gaithersburg High School; Mary Cain
crime Sterling OF ST. Mary's Academy
LeonardtoWn. Md. and Joseph Null
dovney OF Leonard Hall. Leonardtown,
Md
Margaret Ol6enburg who is IS years
old. won the right 10 represent her
school in the group contest netX week
and in subsequent contests, II she Is
victorious in the group meet-by de-
feating two other Semi-finaliStS In the
Hyattsville school. The daughter OF
John c. Oldenburg, COL OaGmont
street. Hyattsville. Miss Oldenburg won
with her Grafton on The Development
Of the Constitution Her victory is
more noteworthy because she is fresh
man in the high school. Following her
graduation in 1881, she plans TO be-
come stenographer The contest III
the HyattSville High School was con-
Quoted under the general direction OF
x. J. Morris. principal.
Farmers Son Victor.
William Waters, the IT-year-old vic
tor in the Gaithersburg High School
contest is Junior" His father, the
senior William Waters, is a farmer OF
Montgomery County. Speaking on
The Present Significance OF the Con-
stitution" young Waters defeated the
best orators his school could produce.
A junior at the Gaithersburg High
School. he will enter the University Of
Virginia to study law after his gradu-
alton in June. 1929 Thomas w. TroX-
ell Is principal of the Gaithersburg
School
Joseph Muldowney. the victor at
Leonard Hall. was one of the first school
representatives TO be chosen. The con-
test was made a regular assigned sub
Ject at Leonard Hall. the school which |
produced last year champion in "Aleck"
Joker, and the delivery Of orations got
under way even before the nth ma
tional oratorical contest was formally
announced in The Star of December l8. |
AS was announced at the time of his
selection during the first week of this
month, Muldowney halls from Rich
mond.
Mary Catherine Sterling. spokesman
for St. Mary's Academy. is a veteran OF
forensic combat. 1t was she over whom
"Aleck" Loker won by a not too wide
margin in the St. Marys County group
contest last year. Defeated then by the
boy who was to become champion not
only of the Maryland district. but of
the entire Evening Star area. including
the District of Columbia and Virginia,
Miss Sterling declared her intention of
returning for further battle this year.
She is IT years old. and the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Sterling OF Leon
ardtown. Her speech is built on a par
ticular phase Of The Present Signifi-
canoe Of the Constitution" She is to be
graduated from the academy this June.
after which she intends 10 study teach
ing She is active in athletics. particu-
larly in golf. tennis and basket ball She
was captain Of the basket ball team IN
her school this year. Sister Mary HUI
bert is superior OF the st. Marys
Academy and II was under her direc-
ton that the contest was conducted