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Extemporaneous speaking named as strongest event of speech season

By Jenny Jedlicka there were several good beginning
The speech and debate teams speakers such as Kathy Reiser,
won a tremendous amount of sophomore, Ti m Lukowski, sopho­
awards, in fact, according to the more and Tony Weber, junior.
coach, it would take too long to Tim Coffelt, junior, and Reilly
name them all. were the group's leaders in policy
Speech and debate coach, Dr. debates. The national topic was
Charles Tichy said, that one of the how to reduce overcrowding in
strongest events this year was the prisons and jails.
extemporaneous speaking. Some Tono Wer, junior, felt that he
of the best speakers included, Eric personally did real well. He felt
Funkhouser, junior Ryan Lorenz, that there was a considerable im­
junior Ben Lundgren, junior, and provement from last year. Even
Pat Reily, junior. Lorenz qualified though Wer was a Lincoln/Douglas
for the national tournament in San debater, his favorite debates were
Jose, California, which took place the policy debates, because the
in June. Qualifiers for the Catholic topics were the same all year.
Nationals in Chicago at the end of Another strong point was the
May were Lorenz, Funkhouser- ex­ Lincoln/Douglas debates. Funk­
temporaneous speaking and Lund­ houser and Lungren took first place
gren- student congress at several tournaments. Lorenz,
Peggy Luebbert, senior, brought Wer, Elise Van Fleet, senior, and
back several awards in oratorical Chris Sandquist, senior, also won
speaking and Kole Snodgrass, jun­ many awards.
ior, won first place in the State
American Legion Oratorical Con­
test. Tichy also mentioned that

During class, when she is not practic­
ing on her own, Senior Elise Van Fleet
times for other classroom debates.
DEBATE
Front Row: Policy Captain Pat
Reilly, Ryan Lorenz, Sponsor Dr.
Charles Tichy, Chris Sandquist
Row 2: Elise VanFleet, Tono
Wer, Kip Mullin, Charter
President Eric Funkhouser, Jared
Andersen Back Row: Blake
Tomlin, Lincoln/Douglas Captain
Ben Lundgren, Tim Coffelt, Jon
Carrison, Nathan Wright

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