Evening star., 1933-05-05
PASTORS SON WINS
0RATORY HONORS
Henry William Snyder, Jr.,
Adjudged Champion of
Western High.

Henry William Snyder, jr.. 15-year-
old son of the pastor of st. Paul's
Lutheran Church, has been adjudged
champion orator of Western High
School, and he will represent that
school in The Star finals of the 10th
national oratorical contest May IL.
Receiving second place rating in the
Western High finals, David Bennett
Parker was named alternate to Snyder.
Young Snyder won the right to be
spokesman for Western High in a con-
test between the five best orators the
school could produce. The fourth of
these speakers to be heard, Snyder
presented first his prepared Grafton,
Justice Holmes, Champion of Human
Rights" He clinched his victory with
a four minute extemporaneous talk
under the assignment to answer why
Should Only Holmes Dissenting Opin-
ions Be Cited to Prove Him a Champion
of Human Rights? Is the Majority
Report Necessarily Lacking in an Ap-
probation of Such Rights?"
Compared With GulIion.
Snyder was compared by the West
mund Gullion, the Western High School
champion who is 1880 was victorious,
not only in The Star finals, but In
the national and international finals, of
the contest. Gulhon's voice was mod
erately low pitched. clear and en-
phatic, and his vocabulary, diction and
pronunciation unusual for high school
boy. Snyder, the Western High peo-
pie believe. has much of Gullion's pol
ished form of oratory, and they be-
lieve in him they have a good spokes-
man in the 1888 contest.
Snyder lives with his parents at 5124
Chevy Chase parkway.
Parker. the alternate. was the first
/, orator to take the stand. His pre-
pared Grafton was Roosevelt, the
was based on the instructions, "Am-
plify your statement: He brought
about the great change from a cor
poration Government to the peoples
Government
Other speakers on Western Highs
final program and their two respective
grafton titles were: Elizabeth Pangburn
Brandes, prepared grafton, Calvin
Coolidge" and extemporaneous talk,
Explain your use of the term strict
as applied to Coolidge's Interpretation
of the constitution. Give specific il
fustration or acts or policies applying
this strict Interpretation" Charles
Francis Osborn, prepared Grafton, Lin
coin and the Constitution; extempo-
raneous talk" Discuss the forces of op-
position which Lincoln encountered
among his subordinates in 1861" and
Chris Aubrey Mathisen. prepared ora
tion," Grover Cleveland, Champion OF
Executive Independence; extempo-
raneous talk, "Show by actual examples
how Cleveland's advance in public life
was affected unfavorably by his fear
lessness and adherence to principle"
Western Finals Judges.
The judges of the Western finals were
J. Fred Essary Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun; Rev. Albert
H. Lucas, head master, st. Alban s
School; Donald Sherbondy. instructor n
political science and speech, American
| University; Harold G. Sutton, direcl,f;
of admissions. George Washington Un
versity, and DR.. Charles &c. Tansill, pr
fessor of history, American Universit.
DR.. Elmer S. Newton, principal Of tn
school, presided.
| Music completed the program, will
the orchestra contributing largely to the
entertainment. A feature of the musica
program, however, was four solos ano
choruses. Harry McKnee, Alan War
field, Mary Offut and Busey Howard
were the soloists, while the student body
itself provided the choral accompani-
ment.