Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-11
SIX SCHOOLS ADDED
IN ORATORY TEST.
Latest Enrolment in Stars
Area Brings Total to II.
Territory Represented.

The enrolment of six additional
schools in The Stars area of the Sixth
National Cratorical Contest brings the
total number Of participating schools
& here up to IL.
Virginia supplied four of the latest in
stitutions to enter the meet, while
Maryland added two to its complement.
Those of Virginia whose participation is
made known today are the George
Mason High School OF Potomac. Ar
lington County; Nokesville High School.
Prince William County; Calverton High
School, Fauquier County, and the Villa
Maria Academy OF West Falls Church,
Fairfax County.
Maryland's latest two entries are the
Great Mills High School and the Char
lotte Hall School, both of st. Marys
Academy.
Schools List 800 Students.
The enrolment of these six schools
represents the participation Of over 800
more students, according to the state
8 nents from the institutions themselves.
s The George Mason High School has en-
tered $50 boys and girls whose work on
contest orationS is assigned as regular
class work w. H. Thomas is principal
Of the school, while the contest partici-
patton is being directed by faculty
Il committee of which Mrs. Henry Ran
som, third and fourth year English
!. teacher, is chairman and Miss Eleanor
4 Nfilcher, first and second year English
I instructor, is assistant.
E The NokeSville'S Schools contestant
field IS reduced already to six picked
3 students, who now are working on their
orationS in preparation for their final
eiiminationS which will be held before
the Community League next month
Forty-three students are entered from
5 the Calverton High School of which v.
I Z. Tyler is principal and contest COM
nlittee chairman
4 Villa Maria Academy Enrolls.
The Villa Maria Academy, of which
b SISTER Cyrenla is superior, is entered in
the contest for the first time this year
& ne preparation of contest orations on
Z Inc official contest subjects pertaining
J. p the Constitution of the United States,
E has been assigned as regular class work
70 the senior class in English Sister
Maria Sidey, teacher of English. is
: CHAIRMAN OF the academy's contest COM
nittee.
SeVenty-five pupils of the Great Mills
School are competing for the right to
represent their school under D. E. Will
+ iard. teacher IN history and chairman
OF the faculty contest committee. l., E.
Cooper is principal of the school.
Charlotte Hall School is sending so
students into the competition this year.
7 Ihey are members of the junior and
senior classes and are making their
preparation for the future meets of
s the contest under the direction of ]. p
Coad, public speaking instructor and
s contest committee chairman of that
school. Col. C. F. Crowson is principal
OF the school,
Students Begin Preparation.
At present the II schools, including
tlae eight senior public high schools of
the District of Columbia. are in the
carly stages Of preparation. Each of
the State schools and those of the pri
Vat5 and parochial school district will
reduce its contestant field to a single
orator who, in turn, will represent his
school in the inter-school group meetA
1ags, and the victors in those meets will
compete for the championship of the
various districts. Each of the District
pubic high schools, however, constitutes
district" in itself, and the winners
IN these institutions consequently are
district champions entitled to COM
pete in The Star finals.
The winner in The Star finals will re-
ceIVe the right to compete here in NAV
II the national finals. and, by virtue of
mat competition, will receive the big
I2,O90-rnlle tour through South Amer
lea next Summer.