Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
Miss Dorothy Zepp Is Named
to Represent Business
High in Finals.
SECOND-PLACE AWARD
GIVEN RUTH |. BYRD
Eileen Haltigan, Daughter of
House Reading Clerk, Represents
st. Paul's Academy.

The list of contestants from the loca
high schools was completed this morn
ing when Dorothy M. zepp, 17-year-olC
Junior, was chosen to represent Bushes:
High School on The Star area finals o.
the National Oratorical Contest. ONLY
orators of the Maryland, Virginia anG
private and parochial districts remain
to be picked.
The contest this morning in the au.
ditorium at Business High was partici'
pated in by three speakers, two girl
and a boy, who delivered their grafton:
before the entire student body.
Miss Zepp In her prepared speech
discussed ''The Liberty offered to the
Foreigner by the Constitution OF the
United States and in her extemporane-
Gus address told of the significance Of
the designation of America as great
melting pot" During the course of both
orations she pictured the Constitution
as the force welding together and de-
veloping into a Nation the various re-
ligious, racial and cultural elements OF
our population.
Graduates Next Year.
She Is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Carroll S. Zepp of 4916 Illinois avenue
Mr.. Zepp Is q policeman. Following heI
graduation from high school next year
Miss Zepp expects to take up steno-
graphic work.
Second place was awarded to Ruth L.
Byrd, IS, who spoke on the subjects,
1.-THE Constitution: Its Privileges to the
Youth of Today" and THE Significance
of Calling the First Ten Amendments
the Bill Of Rights"
The third orator. Fred E. Schaeffer,
II, discussed In his prepared speech
''The Significance of the Constitution"
and explained in his extemporaneous
address How the Rights of Mankind
Are Expressed in the Constitution"
Principal Alan Davis presided and in
troduced the speakers. The judges were
Mrs. Gertrude McClintock of the
AUGMENTATION School, James Kirk
land, an assistant United States district
real estate operator. The latter two
are alumni of the school.
Eileen HaItigan Wins.
eileen Haitian, 18-year-old daugh-
ter of Patrick T. Haltigan, the reading
clerk of the House of Representatives,
was selected yesterday afternoon by q
score of Georgetown University stu
dents, acting as judges, to represent the
second group of the private and paro-
cllial schools of the city IN later ellmi-
naClonS OF the NHtiohaA OAoVOAH~0A S"AA
test.
The competition, held In CASTOR Hall
at GEORGETOWN University, was contest
ed closely, there being little to choose
between the four girl orators who tooE
part.
Miss Haltigan, who represented St
Paul's Academy, spoke with composure
and reserve before an audience COM
posed of the students Of the competing
schools which filled the auditorium. Her
subject was 1.-THE Citizen; His Privileges
and Duties Under the Constitution"
Second place was awarded to Eleanor
M, Rattigan, 16 years old, OF the sacred
Heart Academy, who spoke on the
Constitution; Guaranty OF Liberty Tor
the Individual"
other orators and the subjects OF
their orations were Mary Smith. OF st.
Patricks Academy, Unity the Key
stone of the Constitution" and Blanche
Lee Lyddane, Holy Trinity High School,
"The origin Of the Constitution.
Plans Business Career.
The winner resides at 1860 California
street. She is senior at the academy,
and following her graduation in June
she intends to pursue business career.
Rev. John j. Toohey, s. j., OF George.
town University presided and presented
the speakers. The Judges were student
members Of the Philodemic Society, old
est college debating organization in the
United States. Each voted by written
ballot, rating all of the speakers
Music was furnished by the Holy
Trinity School Orchestra.