Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
SIX ORATORS WIN
IN SCHOOL FINALS
Names of D. c., Virginia and
Maryland Students Sent to
Contest Headquarters.

With the two weeks of county elimi-
nations already under way. credentials
for school winners throughout The
Evening Stars Maryland, Virginia and
District of Columbia territory in the
| national oratorical contest are being
rushed to local contest headquarters.
Six names of intraschool victorS, chosen
from among the thousands of students
who participated in the primary stages
of the contest, are the latest additions
to the rapidly growing list of qualified
contestants.
! Randolph Leigh, jr., IA years old, has
been selected to speak for St. Adams
School, Washington, at the private and
parochial finals on April IS. Young
Leigh won his school competition with
an grafton on Edmund Randolph and
the Constitution" He is a freshman at
st. Adams and a member of the tennis
team.
Finals at Alexandria.
Three Virginia Schools which were
100 per cent in the first contest work
this year report the elimination of all
but one of the many students who COM
posed orations ON the Constitution. At
Alexandria High School, where $50 pu-
pills participated in the initial round,
John Haywood Davis, a senior, 16 years
old, was chosen as the speaker who will
represent that institution, jointly with
Francis Rosenberger. at the City of Alex
andria finals tonight, when two orators
from each of the Alexandria high
schools win speak. Davis, who is the
son of Mrs. @. S. Davis of sic Cameron
street, Alexandria, has been active in
public speaking, dramatics, the literary
society and Latin club at his school.
Following his graduation this June he
rffin at{ hi
sity to study engineering.
1880 Victor Repeats.
Ray Swank, the Prince William Coun-
ty winner of last year, again will rep
resent Brentsville District High School
at the county finals this year. Swank
has been prominent as athlete and lead
er in other school activities, acting as
captain of the base ball and basket ball
teams, member of the soccer team,
president of his class, editor of the
monthly school paper and chairman Of
the Athletic Association. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. w. Swark of Nokes-
vile, Va. His father is dairy farmer.
After the completion of his high school
course this June young Swank will at
tend Bridgewater College to study law.
At the Franklin Sherman High School
Louisa Arnold, 16-year-old daughter of
Va, triumphed over the competition OF
six fellow f1naliStS to win the honor Of
representing that school in the Fairfax
County finals on April 10. Miss Arnold
is editor-in-chief of the school paper
vice president of the senior class, a
member of the girls basket ball and
track teams, secretary of the Athletic
Association and prominent in other
branches Of extracurricular activity.
She chose as her subject, THE Virginia
Plan for the Constitution"
Girls Win in Maryland.
Gordon e. Smith, principal of Frank
lin Sherman High School, presided at
the Dreliminaries and Judges were G. C..
Carr and Thomas Chapman, jr., Of
Fairfax. Va, and Rev. r. H. Gentry Of
Sterling, Va.
In the Maryland district Ellen Earn
shaw. speaking on THE Framing of the
Constitution" won the Brandywine High
School finals. She is the daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. P. A. Earnshaw Of Town
shend, Nd While in high school Miss
Earnshaw has been president of her
class and member Of the field ball and
volley ball teams. Subsequent to her
graduation this June she will become a
teacher.
Mrs. Lessee Dyson, Mrs. James Hogue
and w. T. Mcpherson were the judges
acting at the Brandywine meet, under
the supervision of Miss Ruth Warren,
principal of the school
Damascus High School, Damascus,
Md, has chosen Ruth Peck, a 15-year-
| old senior. from among the Is local
| flnalistS who competed for the right to
represent the school at the Montgomery
County finals. Miss Peck's Grafton con-
| cerned THE Men Who Made the Con-
| sitution." She is the daughter of Mrs.
| A. E. Peck of Damascus.