Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-17
FIRST GIRL WINS
0RATORY CONTEST
Seminary Student Is Chosen
b Represent st. Marys
County in Finals.


the judges, Miss Harriet Adams Nc
Call, 15-year-old freshman in the ST.
Mary's Seminary, was chosen last night
to represent st. Marys County in the
Maryland district finals Of The Evening
Stars zone in the National Oratorical
contest. Miss Mccall, who spoke on
Origins of the Constitution" Is the
first girl to capture a county CHAM
pionship this year.
A crowd of several hundred persons
packed the Leonardtown Court House
to hear the annual forensic event. Miss
Lettie M. Dent, superintendent OF st.
Marys County schools, presided over the
meeting and introduced the speakers.
An orchestra from st. Mary's Academy,
Leonardtown, rendered three selections
as the musical portion of the program.
will Enter Maryland U.
Miss Mccall was judged winner by
George P. Sacks, president OF the Bank
of Bethesda; Aldo l.. Rata, teacher OF
public speaking in the Georgetown Uni
Versitv Foreign Service School, and
Robert P. Reeder of the Department Of
Justice. She is the daughter OF DR..
and Mrs. A. G. Mccall of College Park,
Md. Her father is soil scientist In
the United States Department. OF Agrl-
culture. Miss Mccall intends to enter
Maryland University following the COM
pletion of her preparatory school work
She will study public speaking.
The fourth and final preliminary
meet in the Maryland district VIII pc
held tonight at the Bethesda CHEVY
Chase High School, Bethesda, Mo, at
O'Clock, when eight Montgomery Coun-
tv High School orators will vie for the
gold medal awarded each county VIM
ner in The Star area.
Judges Selected.
Superintendent of Schools Edwin w;
Rroome will act as chairman, ana
Judges will be: Dorsey Hyde. jr.,, secre.
tary Of the washington Chamber OF
Commerce; w. D. Boutwell, OF the of1lce
of education, and George w. Simpson,
associate editor of the Pathfinder Mag
azine. Musical selections viii be given
by the Bethesda Chevy Chase Hign
School Orchestra, under the direction
of Miss Mary Bennett, and That scnoois
Girls Glee Club and elective music
class. under the leadership OF Miss
The schools entered and their repre-
sentatives are: Takoma-Silver Spring
High School, Ted r. Bohannan; Sher-
wood High School, Sandy Spring, Mo,
Eleanor Cissel; Falkland High School,
Beltsvine, Md, Sylvia Miriam Elm;
Gaithersburg High School, Doris Pal-
mer; Rockville High School, ALVIN
Perkins; Bethesda. Chevy Chase Hign
School, Lucy Frank; Georgetown Pre-
paratory. School, Garrett Park, Nd,
Francis K. Cole, and Damascus High
School, entry.
Zone Finals May 8.
The champion Of the Washington
Star area will be designated in the ina!
Cos which Will
be held the morning Of May 8.
The same plan followed In previous
wears will be followed. There Will be
meetings in nine auditoriums through
out the morning. Order In which the
speakers viii be heard in their differ
emit auditoriums viii be announced
later.
The judges viii be: Frank J. Loesch,
attorney of Chicago, member OF the
national Commission on Law Observa-
tion and Enforcement and president OF
the Chicago Crime Commission; Albert
w. Atwood editorial writer for the Sat
urday Evening Post, author OF numer-
GUS books and member CT PM Beta
Kappa; Wade H. Ellis, prominent Wash
tngton attorney, who Is also president
of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa;
French Strother, administrative assis-
tant to the President Of the United
states, author and former editor OF the
Worlds Work; George r. Bowerman,
librarian of the Public Library OF the
District of Columbia, lecturer, author
and member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Each speaker will be allowed six min
utes for the delivery Of his prepared
and memorized address and four min
utes for the eXtemporaneouS address,
which win follow.
Extempore Contest Rules.
The plan for the extemporaneous ad-
dress will be the same as that used last
year. That is to say, each speaker WIZ
be given his extemporaneous topic 40
minutes In advance of the time when
he must deliver his talk. The extern
poraneous topics will be based on ma
terial contained In the prepared adj
dresses and will be so framed as 70
thoroughly test the speakers knowledge
of his entire subject.
Each Of the IL participants in the
finals for this area will already have re-
ceived cash prize of 500. The winner
Of The Washington Star area cham
pionship will receive an additional prize
Of 5000, plus the privilege of participat-
ing in the national finals. Participation
in the national finals automatically
carries with 1t, as prize, Summer
tour of Europe, with all expenses paid.
The winner in the competition Of May
Will participate IN the natlonsl IlnalS
meeting to be held in Constitution Hall
on May %. At that time, he or she
will compete with the champions of six
national zones, namely, Pacific, South
ern, Midwestern, Central, Northern and
New England.
Loving Cup Offered.
In addition to the substantial cash
awards which all Of the contestants will
have received before reaching the ma
tional finals, and in addition to the
Summer tour of Europe, each partici-
pant in the national finals will have a
chance to win the handsome silver low
ing cup, which is the national trophy.
The winner Of the national cham
pionship viii compete for the world
championship in the international finals,
to be held in Washington October "a.
A Washington contestant, Edmund
Gullion of western High School, last
year fought his way through to the in
ternational finals, and there won the
grand prize, the world championship
cup.
The nations whose contestants won
the privilege Of participating in the
grand finals of last year were ENGLAND,
France, GERMANY. Canada Mexico.
United States. Irish Free State and
Chile