University Daily Kansan Wednesday. May 19, 1954
Debate Lineup Shows Eventful KU Season
Bv GENE SHANK
An eventful season for KU's debate squad was climaxed this year by capturing the first national championship in the history of debating at KU.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy best described the University's gratitude for the honor when he wrote to Dr. Kim Giffin, debate coach, "to congratulate you and your team on the extraordinary success at West Point. It has reflected the greatest credit on the University and the department of speech, to say nothing of the boys, and we are grateful indeed."
In addition to the championship, the scope of debating activities this year was as follows:
National champions were William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college juniors.
Thirty-five debaters participated in squad activities. Twenty debated in twelve inter-collegiate tournaments. Fourteen participated in 15 audience debates, t h e audiences varying from 20 to 400 persons and have included service clubs, women's assemblies, high school assemblies, college and university convocations, and radio shows. The debates have been on seven different topics, ranging from free trade to senatorial investigations.
The debate season included tournament work in which a number of KU debaters were successful. The following tournaments are in the season's lineup:
Manhattan tournament - Demissi Knight and Robert Kimball, college freshman; William Means, business senior, and John Fields, college junior; John Eland and Gary Sick, college freshman, and Robert Bush, college freshman, and Mary Ann Curtis, fine arts sophomore, were
teams giving KU the best record of any school represented. Three of the teams were undefeated.
Iowa tournament—Kenneth Dam business senior; Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Richard Smith and Larry Trebair, college juniors, were rated the best four-person team in the tournament. All four were rated superior, KU being the only school with this distinction.
Arkansas tournament —Eland and Sick were second in the freshman-sophomore division and Means and Fields were third in the junior-senior division.
Southwestern College tournament—KU took first place in both divisions with Arnold and Bell winning the junior-senior division and Margaret Smith, college sophomore, and Kimball winning the freshman-sophomore division.
Nebraska tournament — Arnold and Bell and Means and Fields were all rated superior—the top rating for the schools represented.
William Jewell tournament — Means and Fields; Tom Payne, college senior, and Charles Sparks, college junior; Knight and Bush, and Marjorie Heard, engineering sophomore, and Miss Curtis gave KU the top school record in the tournament.
Pittsburgh tournament—Smith and Tretbar won two debates in the junior-senior division and Eland and Sick won three in the freshman-ophomore division.
St. John tournament-Eland and Sick won first place.
Missouri Valley tournament — William Crews and Richard Sheldon, college juniors, and Dam and Miss Lemon tied for the second-best school record.
Reds Say Nurse Of French Fort To Be Returned
Geneva — (U.R.) The Communists promised today to release the "angel of Dien Bien Phu," the French nurse who gave treatment and comfort to the fortress's wounded soldiers during the 56-day Communist siege.
Tran Trong Kuat, press spokesman for the Red Indochinese delegation to the Geneva Far East conference, said Gen. Vo Nguyen Glap, conqueror of Dien Bien Phu, had decided to free his only woman prisoner, Lt. Genevieve De Galard-Terraube.
French sources, however, said the report had not been confirmed. The nurse went to Indochina last fall.
She made several trips into Dien Bien Phu in C-47's and helicopters early in March to evacuate the wounded in complete disregard of enemy gunfire.
Her helicopter was put out of action by enemy artillery on March 27. From then on it was impossible for the nurse to leave the fortress area.
Three days before the fall of Dien Bien Phu, while bombs and shells fell on the command post, Gen. De Castries announced to her that she had been made a member of the Legion of Honor.
Fremont, Neb., district tournament—Arnold and Bell won first place.
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Three University officials are attending alumni meetings through- out the state this week.
They are Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who has a week of high school graduation addresses scheduled; A. C. Lonborg, director o athletics, and Charles Matter, varsity football coach, who are addressing meetings on their way to and from the Big Seven track meet at Boulder, Colo.
Seniors of Colby High school and their parents were guests when Dr. Murphy addressed the Thomas county alumni at Colby Monday evening. The chancellor also spoke to Sherman county alumni in Goodland yesterday noon and the Rawlins county alumni at a dinner yesterday evening in Atwood. He addressed the Norton county alumni at a luncheon in Norton at noon today, and tomorrow evening Dr.
Murphy will speak to Smith county alumni at a dinner in Smith Center.
Mr. Lonborg and Coach Mather spoke at a banquet of Russell county alumni yesterday evening in Russell, and they addressed a luncheon of Barton county alumni in Great Bend at noon today. A dinner of Pawnee county alumni in Larned this evening is also scheduled.
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