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Official publicotion of Delta Sigma Rho-Tou Koppa Alpha National Honorary Forensic Society PUBLISHED AT LAWRENCE, KANSAS By THE ALLEN PRESS Editorial Address: Charles Goetzinger, Department of Speech and Droma Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado Second-class postage paid ot Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. Issued in November, January, March ond May. The Journal carries no paid odvertising.

TO SPONSORS AND MEMBERS Pleose send all communicotions relating The names of new members, those elected to initiation, certificotcs of membership, key between September of one year and Septem- orders, ond nomes of members to the ber of the following year, appear in Notional Secretary. All requests for ^5^ the November issue of SPEAKER and authority to initiate ond for emblems GAVEL. According to present regula- should be sent to the Notional Secre- tions of the society, new members re- tory ond should be accompanied by ceive SPEAKER and GAVEL for two check or money order. Inosmuch os years following their initiation if they all checks and money orders ore for- ^ return the record form supplied them warded by the Secretary to the No- time their application is op tional Treasurer, please moke them to: proved by the Executive Secretory and "The Treasurer of Delta Sigma Rho— certified to the sponsor. Following Tau Kappa Alpha." this time all members who wish to The membership fee is $10.00.| receive SPEAKER and GAVEL may The official key of lOK (size shown subscribe at the following rotes: in cut on this poge) is $6.00, or the $1.50 per yeor for the standard sub- official keypin of lOK is $7.00. Cut dio- scription; $5.00 per year for those who wish mond in key is $7 additional. Prices include to sustoin the work of SPEAKER and GAVEL; Federal Tax. and $25.00 for o lifetime subscription.

NATIONAL OFFICERS President: Wayne C. Eubank, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Vice President: Leroy T. Loose, University of Nebroska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Secretary: H. L. Ewbank, Jr., Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Treasurer: Kenneth G. Hance, Michigan Stote University, Eost Lansing, Michigan. Trustee: E. C. Buehler, University of Konsos, Lawrence, Kansas. Editor: Charles Goetringer, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorodo. Historian: Lionel Crocker, Denison University, Gronville, Ohio.

REGIONAL GOVERNORS, MEMBERS AT LARGE, AND A. C. H. S. REPRESENTATIVE Regional Governors: Herbert L. James, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Ray mond S. Beord, State University College, Cortland, New York; Edgar MocDonold, Randolph-Mocon College, Ashlond, Virginia; Joseph C. Wetherby, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Marvin Esch, Wayne Stote University, Detroit, Michigon; Edward A. Rogge, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Robert Friedman, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri; Robert Scott, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; George Adomson, University of Utoh, Salt Lake City, Utoh; Upton Palmer, University of California, Santa Barbora, Santa Barbara, California. Members ot Large: Austin Freeley, Jahn Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio; Annabel Hagood, University of Alobamo, University, Alabamo; Charles Redding, Purdue University, Lofayette, Indiana. A. C. H. S. Representative: Herold Ross, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.

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Volume 1 May, 1964 Number 4

Confessions of a Tardy Editor 105

President's Page 106

Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha National Council 109

Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha Distinguished Alumni Award 116

Speaker of the Year Citation, 1963 125

Speech Given in Response to Speaker of the Year Award 127

National Contest Results 132

Vox Pop 135

Chapters and Sponsors 137

CONFESSIONS OF A TARDY EDITOR

This has not been the easiest year I have ever experienced. During the previous five years as editor of the Gavel—^it was always a matter of pride with me to put out a punctual magazine. It may not have been the best—^but it was always on time. You might say that when I shatter a reputation—I really shatter a reputa tion. Not one—^not two—not three—but all four issues have been late. Rather an impressive record. I would like to blame it on the printer—^but it just doesn't fit. I'd like to blame the contributors—but they are innocent. No, I'm afraid the blame rests with the editor. After all I do take all the praise—so why shouldn't I take all the blame? But wait until next year!

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STATE OF THE UNION Since the union of DSR and TKA in Denver last August, many people have been doing much vs^ork in order to get the new society off the ground. Our National Conference Committee, chairmaned by Dr. Robert Huber of the University of Vermont, was at work before the Denver meeting planning this conference. I join the representatives of 73 chapters in commending them upon giving us a conference interspersed with pleasure and profit. The Ritual Committee headed by Professor Patrick Marsh of the University of Wyoming produced not one but two rituals—short and long form. The short form was used this afternoon in our model initiation. Dr. P. Merville Larson, Texas Tech, Chairman of the Standards Committee, has been busy processing inquiries from colleges and universities desiring membership in DSR-TKA. He has received 14 requests since last September. All of the paper products of the new soeiety had to be revised: certificates, charters. Speaker of the Year awards. Distinguished Alumni awards. National Conference awards, as well as the die for our new key and our new seal. After some four months of negotiations. Dr. Kenneth Hance, Michigan State University, our treasurer, reports that, at last all of the resources of the two former societies now belong to Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha. Dr. H. L. Ewbank, Jr., Purdue University, our seeretary, has processed 117 membership applications to date. This is a goodly number since most member ship applications reach the secretary after the National Conference. A number of our regions, of which there are ten, have already engaged in regional conferences. Dr. Thorrel Fest, Chairman of the Distinguished Alumni Award Committee, will present at this conference a number of Dis tinguished Alumni whom we shall honor. We are highly pleased with this activity. Each year this committee will select a limited number of our out standing alumni whose lives and services exemplify the heritage and ideals of DSR-TKA. Through these awards we should strengthen the ties and loyalties between our alumni, some 20,000 men and women, and our aetive member ship. Professor Annabel Hagood, Chairman of the Speaker of the Year Award Board will announce at this Conference the first Speaker of the Year Award to be given by Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha. I am sure you all agree that the work of this board in choosing a Speaker of the Year annually is a responsibility and ehallenge of which DSR-TKA should be proud. Through our Speaker of the Year award we say to the nation, "Here is a speaker who, during the past year, engaged in the kind of communication on pubhc issues which our society regarded as intelligent, responsible, and effective—the kind of speaking for which Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha stands and is proud to honor." Dr. James McBath of the University of Southern California, Chairman of the Research Committee, reports that sales on the revised DSR-TKA Argu mentation and Debate text are running far ahead of sales of the first edition. This good news means additional revenue for our treasury. We are highly pleased with the first two issues of the Speaker and Gavel. Our congratulations to our editor. Dr. Charles Goetzinger of the University of Colorado. Many of you know that DSR came to the wedding in Denver last August with a magnificent dowry. Much of the credit for the financial solidarity of https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 4 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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DSR, and now, DSR-TKA, can be attributed to the financial wizardry of om- trustee Bill Buehler of The University of Kansas. It is a rarity to find a pro fessor who knows much about Wall Sti'eet cash and collateral. How fortunate we are to have this financial tycoon—fiscalizer as our trustee. To members of the National Council, to members of committees. Regional Governors, and particularly to the past presidents of DSR and TKA, Dr. Her- old Ross of DePauw and Professor Annabel Hagood of Alabama, I wish to express my warm appreciation for their guidance and wholehearted coopera tion during the past months. Ladies and gentlemen, I am referring to more than a score of the outstanding forensic leaders in this country. May I speak briefly about DSR-TKA, not only as a forensic society, but as an honor society? As a forensic society it is known that we honor those who excell in communication. Let it be as well known that we honor those who are sound academically, whose scholarship is good. Because we honor scholar ship together with forensic excellence, the American College Honor Society has extended us membership. This national organization is composed of societies and scholarship fraternities tliat beheve in fostering good scholarship. We are proud of our affiliation with ACHS. Dr. Herold Ross is our represent ative to the ACHS Council. Oftentimes societies that belong to honor organizations are thought of as rather passive, relatively inactive organizations. This is not our conception of the role of DSR-TKA. We envision our Society as an active, dynamic organi zation, not only wdhng, but always ready to direct its energies toward en hancing effective, intelligent, and responsible speaking. DSR-TKA should stand ready to contribute its part in elevating communication at all levels. How can we do this? The real strength of our organization rests in the strength and standing of our local chapters and the strength of our regional organizations. It is imper ative that sponsors and members develop their chapters of DSR-TKA into the outstanding forensic honor society on campus. You can sponsor a complete and active forensic program providing extracurricular activities for a sizable number of students always stressing quality communication. Your chapter gains prestige when you adhere strictly to the DSR-TKA standards outhned in your Constitution. Observe closely the qualifications for membership. We should make certain that those who wear the DSR-TKA key are fuUy qualified —that within our membership are included not only the best speakers on campus, but also students whose scholarship is recognized as sound. Beyond the local chapter, much of the strength of DSR-TKA lies in the strength of our regions and their activities. For many of our chapters the only DSR-TKA activities in which they will engage during the year wiU be local and regional. Some of oru chapters may never be able to attend a Na tional Conference. Others wiU be able to attend only occasionally. Therefore, we beheve that the regional organization and its activities must play a vital part in maintaining the strength and interest of our local chapters. I hope that all of our regions will sponsor conferences, tournaments, congresses, model legislatures, whatever type of activity in which your region wants to partici pate. There may come a day when we can have conferences and activities between regions. As members of DSR-TKA, your communication in the classroom, outside the classroom, outside the forensic situation should always advance the ideals of your Society. We are experieneing an outstanding National Conference with good comradeship and competition. This conference is not an end in itself!! These activities should prepare you for more effective participation in

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everyday speech situations. Let your fellow students and professors know by your communication that you belong to and represent a society that is indeed the Phi Beta Kappa of the forensic field—a society that not only beheves in, but truly honors those who engage in effective, intelligent, and responsible communication. In all of your associations, may you think straight and talk straight, remembering that the standing of DSR-TKA is yours in the making. I think perhaps that as students you sometimes feel that you do not have an active voice in yomr Society. I assure you that your Constitution gives you a direct voice in the affairs of DSR-TKA through your Student Council presi dent, who is a member of the National Council. Furthermore, I am sure that we voice the feehngs of all members of the National Council when I say we are eager for your suggestions as to how we may better our Society. Not only much of our present strength but the future strength of our Society rests with you young ladies and gentlemen and the thousands of young collegians like you who year by year will join our ranks. Finally, fellow members of DSR-TKA, as a new society, we are really less than a year old—^but our roots run deep. More than half a century of out standing achievement looks down upon us tonight. Decades hallowed with the patience, ingenuity, and vision of men and women whose ideas and ideals will eternally burn brightly in the hearts, minds, and utterances of those whom they touched. Their composite eloquence—the total force of 20,000 DSR- TKA alumni advancing the cause of good speaking, is a power beyond my imagination. May their wisdom and dedication be the bright steel that fashions our future. For years and even decades, many of us had dreamed of a union of Delta Sigma Rho and Tau Kappa Alpha. The dream has come true. Now begins the long tedious process by which the fruits of orrr dreams may be fulfilled. The road to greatness for DSR-TKA hes in our ability and willingness to take ad vantage of the opportunities afforded through union. Now is the time for action—^programs at aU levels, local, ragional, and national, that will equate the greatness of our past with the challenge that our future affords. Fellow members of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, together, let us meet this challenge.

In the March issue of the Speaker and Gavel there was an article, "The Origins of Intercollegiate Forensic Competition in Southern California" without an author.

Actually there was an author—but we seemed to have over looked putting his name where it should have been.

Professor Peter E. Kane, Department of Speech, St. Joseph College, was the author and while the correction is never as good as the orig inal error, our apology, sir.

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DELTA SIGMA RHO-TAU KAPPA ALPHA NATIONAL COUNCIL MONDAY, AAARCH 30, 1964 Tau Kappa Alpha Memorial Room Butler University

The meeting was called to order at 2:50 P.M., immediately following the dedication of the Tau Kappa Alpha Memorial Room, Jordan Hall, by President Wayne C. Eubank. The following members of the National Council, and invited persons, were present for all or a part of the meeting; W. C. Eubank, L. T. Laase, C. R. Lalton, J. H. McBath, H. L. Ewbank, Jr., J. Bobbins (vice P. M. Larson), R. P. Friedman, H. T. Ross, J. C. Wetherby, A. D. Hagood, E.E. MacDonald, K. G. Hance, A. J. Freeley, H. W. Jordan, and T. Ludlum. Minutes of the National Council meeting of August 20,1963, were approved as previously distributed. Treasurer K. G. Hance was called upon for an informal report on the status of the Society. His printed report accompanies these minutes. Discussion of items in the report led to the report of J. H. McBath regarding sales of the text. He stated that 1,473 copies had been sold prior to January 1, 1964, and some 400 copies since that date. This led to the suimise that the advance received from the publisher would be fully repaid, and an income item would be realized from text sales within the fiscal year. Wetherby and Hagood moved that income from the text appear in the budget as "Investment Income." Adopted. Annabel Hagood reported that the $225 budgeted for the Speaker-of-the- Year Award had been more than disbursed, with additional expense as yet unreported. She estimated that the final figure would be $260-$275, plus expenses incurred in the attendance of the recipient as banquet speaker for the Conference. By common consent approval of added funds to cover costs was granted. Laase and Wetherby moved that the transfer of funds from the Tau Kappa Alpha savings account be left to the discretion of the Board of Trustees. Adopted. H. L. Ewbank, Jr., reported actions of the secretary's office. A copy of this report is filed with these minutes. Hance and MacDonald moved that the Secretary have as many as three sets of the remaining issues of The Gavel bound for the archives (i.e., issues following those already bound and in the office of the ti'easurer). Adopted. McBath and Hance moved that the secretary be permitted to purchase a Smith-Corona electric office typewriter and to sell unusable office equipment. Adopted. Laase and Freeley moved to instruct the secretary to ask only for an annual report of activities from each chapter. Adopted. (It was suggested that three copies go to each chapter: one each for secretary, regional governor, and chapter file.) Reports from regional governors followed: MacDonald (Region HI) reported Hampton-Sidney still weak, but others in good shape. Jordan (Region VHI) cited a possible regional meeting in the fall, pur suant to reactions from letters to chapters. Friedman (Region VII) suggested that the secretary communicate with

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Ernest Brandenburg before his impending move away from Washington University in order to ascertain the future of an aheady weak chapter there. He also proposed a designation of time at future National Conferences for a meeting, however brief, of regional governors with chapter sponsors within their regions. The added possibility of such meetings at SAA meetings was also noted. Wetherby (Region IV) reported a regional tournament held last Novem ber. Morehouse College remains weak. Lincoln Memorial, weak in the past, was present at the regional tournament. He reported an inquiry from Carson-Newman College, recently resigned from Pi Kappa Delta, regarding estabhshment of a chapter. Spring Hill College was reported resigned from Pi Kap. Murray State has requested a change from Region III to Region IV. Weatherby and McBath moved to approve participation by Murray State College in Region IV activities. Adopted. Ludlum (Region V), most recently elected Regional Govemoi', reported plans for a fall conference, October 9-10, 1964, at Ball State University, to be a discussion of "the area of the debate proposition." Invitations for the 1965 National Conference from Indiana University, University of Kentucky, and Bellarmine College were acknowledged. The imderstanding that the 1964 Conference should be held at a TKA school and the 1965 Conference at a DSR school was recalled, and a note was made of the fact that John Carroll had been forced to withdraw the invitation for 1965 because anticipated faciUties will not be ready for use. Action on Time and Place was held in abeyance. Meeting adjourned at 4:40 P.M.

TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1964 President Eubank called the Council to order at 2:05 P.M. The following members of the Council and invited guests were present for all or part of the meeting: W.C. Eubank,L. T. Laase, J. H. McBath, H. L. Ewbank, Jr., James Bobbins (vice P. M. Larson), A. D. Hagood, R. P. Friedman, J. C. Wetherby, E. E. MacDonald, K. G. Hance, A. J. Freeley, H. W. Jordan, T. Ludlum, R. V. Hamack, R. G. Huber, Father Miller, William Colbert, C. Blyton, and Deldee Herman. Continuing the subject of Time and Place, formal invitations to the three institutions already mentioned were extended by representatives thereof. Gifford Blyton stated that the full facilities of the University of Kentucky would be available, during their centennial year, at the time of their spring vacation, March 13 through March 21, 1965, or between May 9 and 12. Father MiUer described the potential of Bellarmine and Louisville, including the riverboat ride and free admission to an afternoon of racing at Chm'chill Downs, with rooms at hotels and contest rooms in the Convention Center in downtown Louisville, for the dates of May 6 to 8, 1965. William Colbert, speaking for Robert Jeffrey, invited the conference to Indiana University, using the facihties of the Student Union and a nearby classroom building during theh spring vacation, April 12 to 14, with registration on April II. He noted that Easter will fall on April IS in 1965. Final action was withheld pending confirmation of the dates of Kentucky's spring vacation. Having received this confirmation, action was taken. Laase and Ewbank moved to accept the invitation from Indiana University for the dates of April 11-14, 1965, because these dates seemed preferable to https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 8 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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OSWALD RYAN-TKA FOUNDER

Oswald Ryan, who founded Tau Kappa Alpha, speaks af the dedicatian of fhe Delfa Sigma Rha—Tau Kappa Alpha Memorial room at Bufler University, Indianapolis, Indiana,

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the March dates which would apparently conflict with final examinations at schools on the quarter system and with other established tournament dates, and because the May dates prolong the season. Adopted. Robert Huber reported for the National Conference Committee. He in formed the Council that the trophies for this tournament had been designed and executed at a cost of $20 each for the twenty ti-ophies plus $95 for the die for the enlarged replica of the key. He suggested that this particular trophy design be reserved for use at the National Conference, and that the enlarged key emblem be made available for use on different bases for Regional Tourna ments, or other awards. Laase and Wetherby moved to adopt the existing trophy as the official award for the National Conference, and that the key emblem be made avail able for other uses, subject to the authorization of the National Council; it was construed in the motion that such other uses should lie within the limitations which would assure that the award is received by DSR-TKA chapters or persons, and that purchase of the awards should be made through the National Secretary only. Adopted. Continuing his report, Huber noted that the conference was moving on schedule, and that one replacement was necessary for his committee. Presi dent Eubank announced the appointment of Jerry Andersen, of Michigan State University, to replace Victor Hamack, who had asked to be relieved from the committee. Noting that there had been some complaint regarding the $12 registration fee for the conference, Huber stated that over $8 of this goes for the two banquets and entertainment. The remainder pays for the judges which are hired to replace the society president, the directors of the various events (half- time judges for directors of Extemp and Persuasive speaking), and the pur chase of awards. This, he judged, would barely cover costs this year. Huber suggested printing the conference mles and regulations in a form more permanent than the dittoed distributions of the past because they have become reasonably stabilized and most of the foreseeable contingencies have been met. Concerning the Congress, Hamack commented that size is a problem. If the members increase, evaluation becomes excessively difficult, but if it remains small, this suggests a lack of interest and support. He raised the question of holding the Congress more in context with other more strictly competitive events, suggesting that the forensic progression might be better adapted to evaluation and awards. This should be subject to declaration of interest on the part of the student participants. It was concluded that final determination of the events should be left to the committee, in response to student preference. , The report of the Conference Committee was received with thanks and commendation for a difficult job well done. Annabel Hagood, reporting further for the Board of Award, detailed the extensive publicity arrangements which had been made. Two major papers in each of the fifty states and all of the wire services were provided with the story, in addition to releases and mats of LeRoy Collins sent to each of the chapters of the Society. A brochure explaining the award and the story of DSR-TKA was sent with each of the releases. She noted that the News Bureau of the University of Alabama had contributed generously of time and assistance in this distribution. The report of the Board of Award was received with special commendation https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 10 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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for the extended coverage of the award to Mr. Collins, and particular thanks to the University of Alabama News Bureau. Deldee Herman, sponsor of the Student National Council, reported that their efforts had been devoted to the creation of a constitution for the Council. This has been done and has taken the shape of the earlier TKA Student Coun cil, adapted to the larger numbers. A 38-member Council is provided, with four officers and four members-at-large on their executive committee. It was suggested that the Student Council be asked to take the responsibility for the model initiation at the National Conference as they had done in TKA. A joint meeting of the Student and National Councils was suggested—^perhaps the first portion of the meeting on the second day of the conference. This will be suggested to the Conference Committee for 1965. James Bobbins reported for Merville Larson of the Standards Committee, noting the numbers of letters of inquiry which had been received during the year. A copy of this report is filed with these minutes. He then called at tention to the recommendation for reinstatement of a chapter. Wetherby and Hance moved that the chapter at Birmingham-Southern College be reinstated. Adopted. The secretary will advise the chapter of this action. Laase and Wetherby moved to defer action on new charters until the De cember meeting. Adopted. President Eubank appointed Laase and McBath a committee of two to investigate the need for a statement regarding the affiliation of chapters which had previously been affiliated with other forensic organizations. They were asked to report in December. Wetherby and Hance moved that the record should show that the National Council interprets the intent of the constitution to date the terms of present officers from July 1, 1963. Adopted. Freeley and McBath moved to amend the past provision for the fiscal year to date from July 1 through Jrme 30, in order to conform with terms of office. Adopted. Leroy Laase read portions of some communications from the Trustee, E. C. Buehler, regarding the proposal by the Speech Association of America establishing Life Memberships at $1,000, in order to establish funds for SAA awards for scholarship in the field. Donors to this fund, payable in increments of $200 per year if desired, would be commemorated in a plaque which would be located at SAA national office. Buehler had inquired regarding the potential of organizational contributions and secured an affumative reply. McBath and Hance moved that DSR-TKA purchase a Life Membership in the Speech Association of America in the amount of $1,000. Adopted. McBath and Wetherby moved that all active chapters, certified on the date of merger, be issued charters of DSR-TKA, to read "The National Council of Delta Sigma Rho—Tau Kappa Alpha recognized the establishment of a charter chapter of said society at ," dated August 18,1963. Adopted. Ewbank and Ludlum moved to grant the request of the chapter at Waynes- burg, Kentucky, to affiliate with Region V for purposes of participation in regional affairs. Adopted. Laase and Wetherby moved a Resolution of Thanks to Butler University; to its President, Alexander Jones; to the National Conference Committee; to the Conference host. Dr. N. M. Cripe; to the staff of the Marott Hotel; and to all of the willing workers who have made this a most enjoyable and profitable conference. Adopted. The meeting of the Council adjourned at 4:45 P.M.

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Pictured, left to right, are: Dave Kinner, U. of So. California, Councilman at Large; Larry Woods, Emory U., Councilman at Large; Jerry Harris, William and Mary U., Councilman at Large; Jim Hudek, Michigan State U., Councilman at Large; Sandi Pernell, Wayne State U., 1st Vice-President; Mike McGee, Butler U., President; Carmen Wessner, U. of Vermont, Secretary and Bob King, Brighom Young U., 2nd Vice-President. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 12 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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COLLINS RECEIVES AWARD

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LeRoy Collins, former Governor of Florida and presently presi dent of the National Association of Broadcasters (right), is shown with Prof. Annabel Ifagood, University of Alabama (left), being presented with the Delta Sigma Rho—Tau Kappa Alpha Speaker of the Year award. DSR—TKA President Wayne Eubank, New Mexico University (middle), is the interested onlooker.

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DELTA SIGMA RHO-TAU KAPPA ALPHA DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA MARCH 31, 1964

Edmund S. Muskie, U. S. Senator, Maine I always enjoy the opportunities which are mine to travel throughout our country. Always upon my return, I am asked as I will be tomorrow by Mrs. Muskie or the children,"Did you have a good time?" A similar question was put to a young Irishman upon his return from a weekend at a British nobleman's country estate. "It was a very pleasant weekend," was his reply, "but it could have been an even better one if the arrangements had been just a httle different." "What do you mean?" he was asked. "Well," he said, "if the tea had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the chicken; if the chicken had been as tender as the maid; and if the maid had been as willing as the Duchess, it would have been a glorious weekend." I am delighted to be here tonight. I have enjoyed the distinguished and stimulating company in which I find myself. It is good to be with my old friend and colleague of the Governors Conference, LeRoy Collins, who so richly deserves the honors which you confer upon him. I am grateful that I have been included among the recipients of your distinguished alumni awards. The added touch—the difference—which makes tbis occasion perfect for me, is that the list of recipients should include my coach, adviser, and old friend. Brooks Quimby. I suspect that his own modesty might have disclaimed the possibility that he might be so honored tonight. I am sure that, in the days when he suffered the exasperations and frustra tions of molding my poor talents to a reasonable likeness of a Bates debater, he would have vociferously disclaimed the remotest possibility that I might be so honored. And so, tonight, in honoring him, you pay him a deserved tribute. And I am doubly honored that you should place me at the side of one at whose feet I learned what little I know of the art of debate. He was everything a debating coach should be. He was the example of the restless, searching mind, who sent us scurrying to the books for our facts. His were the probing, stimulating questions which helped us to open up the remotest corners of an issue. He was the enlightened citizen who imbued us with a lasting interest in public questions. He was the perfectionist who taught us always to reach out beyond what we ourselves believed to be the limits of our capacities and abilities. He taught us that debate is an indispensable instrument of free men in a free society as they undertake to consider their common problems, to form common judgments, and to make effective common decisions. We know debate to be a provocative instrument. In the hands of dema gogues and statesmen ahke, it exposes differences of opinion and stirs up controversy. But we also know that, intelligently and responsibly used, it can generate https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 14 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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the enlightenment and understanding which resolve controversial questions. And we know that public policy which is the product of free discussion and debate, however controversial, will be wiser policy because of its origin. Let us, therefore, never fear to debate our differences. President Kennedy once spoke of his belief in an America which is "moving, choosing, doing, dreaming. .. ." We have dared to dream that society can be so constituted as to insure to every member the opportimity to achieve his full potential, whoever he might be and whatever his origins. We have accomplished truly great deeds in developing the material, intel lectual, and spiritual resources which are essential to sucb widespread oppor tunity. Despite our successes, the dream is not fully realized. We have moved a great distance toward it, and we have a great way to go. We move persistently forward, encouraged by our successes, convinced that ours is the road and the goal which can bring order, stability, peace, and justice to the human family. It is the "choosing"—the choice-making—which has been the key to our progress thus far and which will determine whether or not we advance in the future. Choices—the right to make them, the perception to recognize them, the wisdom to select the right ones, the courage to implement them—these are the heart of the democratic process which has made our freedom effective in dealing with the problems and obstacles which have strewn our path. If there are doubts as to our future, they relate largely to our ability to "choose" as wisely and courageously in years ahead as we have in the past. Is it possible, really, for every citizen, in an increasingly complex world, to be as fully informed on every critical question of public policy as he should be if he were the sole policy maker? Will a lesser standard suffice? Is it possible for every citizen to be as concerned that he knows and under stands all the alternatives, that he comprehends all of the implications of each, that he projects the rmfolding of each under the impact of all related events which he can anticipate, as he should be if he were the sole policy maker? Again, will a lesser standard suffice? I don't loiow whether we can achieve these standards. I am certain that we must come closer to them than we have. The mere "numbers" of our citizens does not insure the quality of their citizenship, nor the wisdom of their common policies. That quality can be improved only as we improve upon the "choice-making" capacity of the individual citizen. This is a challenge which you are helping to meet. This is a task to which the art of debate is peculiarly adapted. I wish you well as you work in the cause of an America which is "moving, choosing, doing, dreaming." I accept your award as a stimulus to my own effort in the same cause.

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DELTA SIGMA RHO-TAU KAPPA ALPHA DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD

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Teacher, scholar, author, and professional leader, has been consistently in the forefront of speech education. His contributions have ranged from the basic course through the graduate and adult levels. As a Director of Forensics he has ehampioned responsible and effective discussion of public issues, inspiring students to excellenee and earning respect for himself and his con tributions in the academic community. His was the vision and leadership that brought Delta Sigma Rho through critical times and estabhshed its financial foundations. His integration of educational philosophy, integrity of purpose, and warmth of personality have been a significant influence in the hves of all who have known and worked with him. To the affection of his many students, the respect of his colleagues, and the recognition of his work in adult education should be added that of Distinguished Alumnus of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha.

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THE HONORABLE EDMUND S. MUSKIE

Distinguished member of the Bar, respected civic leader, public servant. United States Senator, believer in freedom of expression and practitioner of the art, has served unselfishly the highest public interest and championed without fear justice and progress however unpopular the specific causes may have been. He has combined intellectual competence and human compassion in providing leadership for worthy causes, opposing the forees of reaction and prejudice. He has exemplified the best produet of both the liberal arts and professional training. He has been an eloquent and responsible advocate of faith in democratic efforts to achieve for mankind a better future. To the honorary degrees and public recognition spanning almost two score years, we are proud to add that of Distinguished Alumnus of Delta Sigma Rho—Tau Kappa Alpha.

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Respected teacher, leader in international forensics, academic philosopher, and defender of the humanities, has long represented what is best in the college teacher of pubhc address. Widely known for the excellence of the forensics program he has directed at Bates College, and honored by both its graduates and his professional colleagues for his toughness of mind and great personal integrity, he has inspired all who knew him to emulate these quaUties. Among his most noted service is that with the State Speech League in Maine and as its representative on the National University Extension Association Advisory CoimcU. He has been a guiding force in this area of work. Be lieving that free men should determine their destinies in open and rational deliberation, he has never faltered in his sustained effort to help all students participate in such challenging activity. To the honors already bestowed upon him, it is appropriate to add that of Distinguished Alumnus of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha.

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KENNETH G. HANCE

Teacher, scholar, author, professional leader, and respected civic and reli gious -worker, has guided the academic careers of many students, contrib uted unselfishly to the professional advancement of his colleagues, and added materially to both the theory and practice of human communication. His daily life has been a constant symbol of that which is best in a free and open society. With personal modesty but effectiveness, he has exemplified the importance of welding knowledge, application, and integrity into an instru ment for assisting his fellowmen to improve themselves and to aspire to that which is good and noble in human endeavor. To the many honors he has already received, we are proud to add that of Distinguished Alumnus of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha.

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CLARENCE J. MYERS

Friend of education, distinguished business administrator, professional leader and publie servant, represents the successful integration of service to bis fellowman and leadership in bis chosen professional field. While rising to bead one of the largest insurance companies in America, be has made major contributions to the welfare of bis own university and also to the Independent College Fimds of America, Inc. As be has grown in stature and served, so be has inspired others to follow bis example. His contributions have been recognized by bis alma mater and by bis professional associates. Most im portant, be has given bis energies to those things that make it possible for coming generations to improve themselves. Thus it is appropriate that to the honor and recognition be has already received should be added that of Distinguished Alumnus of Delta Sigma Rbo-Tau Kappa Alpha.

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SPEAKER OF THE YEAR CITATION, 1963

The first Tau Kappa Alpha Speaker of the year award was presented in the spring of 1950. During the ten years which followed forty-five awards were made in five broad areas of human endeavor: National Affairs; Business and Commerce; Labor; Religion; and Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Activities. The only significant change in procedure occurred in 1959 when the Board of Award was instructed to select a single award winner rather than a recipient within each of the categories. In 1959, Henry M. Wriston was the Speaker of the Year in Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Activities; in 1960, President John F. Kennedy in the area of National Affairs. Newton Minow, chainnan of the Federal Communi cations Commission, vigorous challenger of the broadcasting industry, re ceived the 1961 Award. And the 1962 Award was presented to the Reverend Duncan M. Gray, Jr., Episcopal rector in Oxford, Mississippi, who spoke with courage and wisdom during the days following racial violence in his com munity. The first Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha citation is to be presented this evening to LeRoy Collins, former Governor of the State of Florida and President of the National Association of Broadcasters, Speaker of the Year for 1963 in the area of National Affairs. Let me make very clear in presenting this citation that your Board of Award is not imitating the Academy Awards of the motion picture industry nor are we undertaking the impossible task of selecting the "best" speaker in the country. We are saying to you and to the general public, Mr. LeRoy Collins meets our three basic criteria of effectiveness, intelligence, and responsibility. He is a man who exemplifies the kind of oral communication that America needs. The man we honor tonight was bom in Tallahassee, Florida's capital, on March 10, 1909, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a circuit-riding Meth odist preacher. He was educated in the public schools of Tallahassee, at the Eastman School of Business, and at Cumberland University, where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1931. He passed the Florida bar examination with the second highest grade achieved up to that time. For two and a half decades he served the State of Florida, first as a state legislator and then for six years as its chief executive. In 1956, he was reelected Governor by the largest vote ever given to any candidate for public office in the State of Florida. LeRoy Collins, seventeenth president of the National Association of Broadcasters, was elected by the Association's 43-member Board of Directors on October 10, 1960, and took office on January 4, 1961. In this capacity, he has been a forthright and courageous leader of the broadcasting industiy. While making clear his philosophy that there is always room for improvement within the broadcasting industry, he has spoken vigorously against increased govemment regulation of that industry. "Broadcasting must and does serve the public interest," he has noted, "but freedom of expression itself is the paramount public interest." The interests and the provocative leadership of LeRoy Collins are by no means limited to the industry which he serves. Deeply concerned with the vast complex of social problems, his public speaking in 1963 included topics such as education, civil rights, and Anglo-American relations. And always the theme of the search for right and the courage to fight for justice rather than succumb to expediency permeates his speaking. "1 want to see America

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doing what it knows to be right, regardless of what others think," our speaker told the delegates to the Anglo-American Conference on Transatlantic Im ages. "But it is the pursuit of our common purposes whieh must continue to bind us close. It was Shaw who defined life's true joy as pursuing a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one." Speaking before the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Co lumbia, South Carolina, last December our Speaker of the Year significantly entitled his speech "Rout Forces of Hate." "That all men are created equal is not an empty cliche," he noted, "it is a mighty idea that is the keystone of our nation's whole meaning and perpetual commitment. It is the basic idea which supports the dignity of man as an individual. Above all else, it is the moral duty of our generation to plow rmder racial injustice everywhere in the U.S. and to plant new opportunities for the generations which will come along after us and reside in this green part of our old planet." Your Board of Award is deeply honored to present your Speaker of the Year for 1963, a gentleman with a distinguished record of public service, a widespread reputation for integrity and com-age, and an ability to express himself with force and clarity. Mr. LeRoy Collins is truly representative of effective, intelligent, and responsible speaking on public questions.

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SPEECH GIVEN IN RESPONSE TO THE DELTA SIGMA RHO-

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I deeply appreciate the great honor which Delta Sigma Rho and Tan Kappa Alpha have accorded me in selecting me as 1963 Speaker of the Year. With much humility too, I have noted the illustrious names of the previous winners of the Speaker of the Year Awards in various fields. And I observe with respect and sadness that the last recipient of the award in national affairs was John F. Kennedy in 1960. 1 have also noted with great interest that I am the first winner in the field of national affairs to come from the business world. 1 hope this is as signif icant to you as it is important to me. I hope I will be the first of many from the business world. For in business there is a vast pool of talented speakers with great ideas and the abihty to forcefully express them, and yet the nation does not hear much from them. Not long ago, in speaking to a group of businessmen, 1 urged them to speak out more, because it seems to me that no group makes so little contribution to the development of sound public opinion in relation to its competence as the business community. I have been associating with businessmen all my life. I have a deep respect for them—^for their energy and drive, for then- intelligence and their dedi cation. Business is without question the most powerful group in this society. Whatever business really sets itself to do, it can do. But America desperately

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needs its businessmen to be whole men; they must do more about their coimtry and its human values than talk about free enterprise. They must accept more responsibility for speaking out on issues outside the walls of their own narrow self-interests. I feel especially honored too because it appears that I am the first recipient from the field of commrmications. Your primary concern is speech and it is through our rapidly expanding means of communications that speech today is far more meaningful and pervasive than in the past. For thousands of years since the beginning of time, a speaker's audience was limited to the carrying-power of his voice. The printing press, of course, did much to change 4is. And then within the last 75 years came newer changes which have placed the speaker on a vastly extended pinnacle of power in our modem society. Actually it was only a few years before these great forensic societies were founded that we were able to record and reproduce the sound of the human voice, and to broadcast that voice over distances. Your groups were a quarter of a century old before we were able to broadcast man's image by television. It was only a decade ago that we were able to record and reproduce that image on video tape. Less than two years ago the first picture was transmitted across the ocean using a satellite. Unquestionably this technical revolution in communications has put in our hands a power of enormous magnitude—the power of persuasion, exercised instantaneously on a massive scale. It can be a far greater influence for good or evil that this world has yet known. Already we have seen examples of the awesome possibilities. Evil was personified by the insane hypnotism of Adolf Hitler; good by the heroic voice of Winston Churchill, the warm voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and more recently, the moving dignity of John F. Kennedy. -Such great power carries with it the obligation to use it wisely, and the miracle achieved in technical commvmication must be matched by a growth in the quality and importance of what is communicated. Actually most problems stem from a lack of communication which results in a lack of understanding. Inadequate communication prevents meaningful dialogues between nations and races, between business and labor, between superior and subordinate, and in the home, between man and wife. Many of you are teachers of speech in our colleges and universities. Yours is a work of incalculable value to our young men and women, and not only they, but the nation and the whole cause of human progress, are in your debt. I suppose that on the scale of importance in values, how a person thinks must rank first; but how he can express his thoughts cannot rank far behind. To be able to think well is essential but no one can exercise meaningful leader ship without the ability to express his thoughts effectively. Some of you may have seen the play or movie "Twelve .Angry Men," by Reginald Rose. It is the story of one of the most difficult tests our society im poses on its citizens—service on a jury which must determine the fate of a human being on trial for his life in a murder case. Twelve men are locked in the jury room; at the outset, eleven are for con viction and only one lone juror is for acquittal. But that single juror, slowly and tortuously, but with enormous skill is able to convince ihe other eleven jurors one by one of the rightness of his judgment. And ultimately, the jury which entered the room a few hours before, eleven to one for conviction, returns a unanimous verdict of not guilty. It is a movie that you might well study in your classrooms. It is not only a moving drama, but a splendid example of the persuasive powers of a single https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 26 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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man who was able to overcome great odds and to exercise leadership by the skillful use of the tools of raw eloquence and tenacious reasoning. Another quality is of prime importance—the courage to express one's con viction. Businessmen are reluctant to speak out because too often they feel that it will cause them problems, that they will thus become involved in eontro- versy. Others feel the same way. Yet controversy that stems from different viewpoints is not bad, but good. It is not harmful, it is helpful. It does not obscure issues, it often clarifies them. And in the final analysis it does not divide people, it imifies them. In our plurahstic free society it is only through the babble of a thousand disagreements that the voice of the people can be heard. I believe we must all speak out whether we are professors or students or businessmen or politicians, uninhibited by fear that somebody will dis agree with us, because issues are focused by the expression of the thoughts and ideas of many men. It is said that when a man takes his seat for the first time in the U.S. House of Representatives, the first unwritten rule he hears from his older colleagues is that—"To get along, you must go along." Perhaps this is just as true in other places, maybe even in the academic world. But what a pity! I disagree strongly with the philosophy. Coerced conformity and the im plication that success will be denied to the man who raises his voice and declines to go along with the popular view are dangerous and alarming. This nation was not built by that kind of man—nor has mueh ever been accom plished by that kind of man. You were shocked, I am sure, as I was, with the story from New York a few days ago about the murder of a young woman witnessed by thirty-seven people. It took the criminal some thirty minutes to kill the victim within the view of all that number of people looking out from the windows of an apart ment house. The woman sereamed for help in her agony and pain, but not a single one of those people would come to her rescue or would even call the police before the dastardly crime had been completed and the criminal had fled. When questioned by the police about why they had not responded, the general answer was simply,"I just didn't want to get involved." This report is almost rmbelievable, but this actually happened in our country in the year 1964. It points up one of the ugly sores on our national culture, this fear of becoming involved. I mention this to you tonight, however, primarily to emphasize that on countless occasions, in meetings large and small, insignificant and important, a point of view is advoeated which obviously is wrong yet it carries the day, because other speakers with better ideas or better motivations sit silently, unwilling to become involved. Many times with the speaker the silence is not because of a fear of making the issue, but the fear of not having the competence to express well a position. And this is the need to which your societies and your individual efforts, and your leadership, are addressed. Yes, it is essential not only to progress, but to survival—that issues be made and joined. Democracy can function only if the people are aware of alternatives and their consequences. It may seem here that I am advocating that every extremist and crackpot should go about the land shouting his convictions and solutions to all prob-

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lems. I do not believe extremists require any encouragement from me. They are already doing just that. I am speaking here today of sound, reasonable men and women of good will. It is they who need to speak. It is easy to shout and scream for extreme causes. It is often difficult to voice sensible moderation—and it often re quires more courage. It is hard to combat those who equate passion with strength and compassion with weakness. —The Southerner who counsels moderation in race relations is often assailed as a traitor. —^The businessman who counsels a humanitarian course of under standing in labor matters is regarded at times as unsound of mind; and his counterpart, the labor leader, who tries to work construc tively with management is accused of selling out—of going over to the enemy. —The politician who questions the hard line and counsels modera tion and good sense in dealing with foreign nations is smeared as a man soft on communism. I think this much is clear: Unless the man of good sense and good will, despite the vilification and criticism he may have to endure, is not only willing, hut able to rise, speak, make his voice heard, then he leaves the definition and development of issues to the extremist, and that often leads to disaster whether it takes place on a local, national or international basis, or whether it is in the world of business, or social relations, or politics. Or if not to the extremist, he leaves the important needs and demands of his day in the vacuum created by those in positions of authority, who either try to take stands on both sides of the fence, or refuse to recognize that any problem exists. The result of this latter course is the spreading of a disease without efforts to cure and correct, or, in terms of sports, trying to play the whole game out on the fifty-yard line. In closing, I would like to tell you a little story from history. Tallahassee, my home town in Florida, was the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi River that was not occupied by Federal troops during the Civil War. This was not by accident. In fact, an expeditionary force of Union soldiers was put ashore at St. Marks, a tiny Gulf Coast port about twenty-five miles southwest of Tallahassee, with the mission to take the capital. There was no available Confederate military for a defense, but when word of the landing got to the town, a small group got together comprised of the disabled, some old grandfathers, and some thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boys who were attending a local seminary. They had no arms except what they could dig up locally and these consisted of a few squirrel guns, some rusty pistols, and an assortment of agricultural tools. But this group bravely set forth to engage the enemy. The confrontation took place at a little spot we call Nat ural Bridge because it was only here that the Union soldiers could safely cross the St. Mark's River. The engagement lasted for only a few hours, and I think there was much more noise than casualties. When it was over, the Union soldiers retreated to St. Marks and sailed away. Long ago, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument there at the site of the Battle of Natural Bridge, and as a boy, I remember that, on Confederate Memorial Day each year, an all-day celebration would be staged with bands, political speeches, and dinner on the grounds. I never missed one of these affairs if I could possibly be there, and etched in my mem ory is the image of a very old man who also attended every year. He had a beard trimmed as nearly like Robert E. Lee's as possible—I can see him now. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 28 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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He would go over to a particular spot, plant his walking stick down firmly and then he would dance around and around saying over and over, "This is where I stood." The children who gathered around to witness his act always snick ered, and said he was,"crazy as a bedbug." The older people said not to pay much attention to him because he was just "old and senile." That old man was one of those apple-cheeked youngsters from the seminary who had actually participated in the Battle of Natural Bridge many years before. As the years have gone by I have thought of that old man many, many times and you know, I have great respect and admiration for him. I don't think now that he was crazy at all. In fact, if I live to be as old as he, I hope that I can be just as proud of where I stood. I hope that I can go back through the musty pages of the archives of my state and find positions of significance that I took as a legislator or as a Governor, and proudly proclaim that "this is where I stood." I hope that when today becomes a long, long ago, that the record I make in broadcasting will bring to me the same sense of joy and satisfaction. Members of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, your country needs you to take stands that are based on conviction and expressed with courage. You represent a much larger part of the hope for our nation's future than you can ever realize. And above all else, as I accept your honor, I would challenge you to so live, and so speak, and so serve, that in the years ahead, you will feel like dancing around your stick and proclaiming, "This is where I stood." Thank you.

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NATIONAL CONTEST RESULTS

Cornell University, under the direction of Professor Marguerite Goodman, placed third in the finals of the 13th National Contest in Public Discussion. The finals, ■which were held as a sectional meeting of the Southern Speech Association in Houston on April 10, were judged by Professor Glenn Capp, Waldo Braden, and Mary Louise Gehring. First place in the contest was awarded to Bradley University, and Wisconsin State Gollege at Eau Claire finished second. Institutions receiving certificates of excellence iri the field of thirty-six were Indiana, Texas, American University, Augustana of South Dakota, Idaho, St. Mary's (Texas), Murray State College, West Texas, Millikin, Heidelberg, and Idaho State. Plans already are under way for the I4th National Contest. Declarations of entry should be filed by December I, 1964 with the National sponsor. Dr. Wayne N. Thompson, Department of Speech, University of Texas, Austin 12, Texas. All colleges are invited to participate. Information may be obtained by writing to Dr. Thompson. Institutions which desire to have copies of winning tapes for use in class- work and forensic programs may secure copies by sending $1.00 and a blank tape to the Audio-Visual Library, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. The awards for the 1964 contest were donated by Shure Brothers, Evanston, Illinois. The first-, second-, and third-place winners received functional microphones and stands.

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DSR-TKA WINNERS

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1613 Olive Street sentially unjust. He says those who Louisville 10, Ky. are not established have nothing to March 27, 1964 lose. I submit that no man has noth ing. He misstates the conservative Editor—Speaker and Gavel viewpoint as "security is more valu Department of Speech and Drama able than progress" rather than more University of Colorado valuable than innovation. He has again confused innovation or change Sir: with progress. Progress is consistent A Letter to the Editor on reading movement towards a specific good: "Is Debate Merely a Game for Con change is mere movement,forward or servatives?" by Prof. Patrick O. backward, to good or to bad. Marsh: The status quo is the reality of the moment, not necessarily a conserva The article in the January issue of tive position. Indeed, who can say Speaker and Gavel by Prof. Marsh that the United States today pursues contends that the present rules for a conservative pohcy; and who can debate are, so to speak, loaded in deny that the present policy is the favor of the conservative position. status quo? Notwithstanding the arguments pre In freeing the debaters from the sented to support the position of the necessity of beginning with the status author, this poor reader has failed to quo firmly established, we are in ef discern in the article, either stated or fect further freeing them from reahty. assumed, any reasonable alternative Mere speculation divorced from real to this supposed favor. ity ought have no part in the educa Any argument involving a proposi tion of our futm-e citizens, for which tion to action involves a proposition Prof. Marsh is so concerned. to change. This, too, involves the A truly conservative proposition, "should" question. Should we such as returning to government of change? Should we change in the divided sovereignty as established by manner proposed? the U. S. Constitution, is equally a Any argument to begin an action matter of changing the status quo as not yet begun, or to continue an one advocating more centralization. action in a way not yet used, involves The author says that there is no a departure from the status quo—a fair debate on such issues as "Re movement from the known to the un solved: That the federal government known. It is but natural that one pro should adopt a uniform policy govern posing such a move be obliged to ing population growth," because the show the wisdom of abandoning the government has no policy at this time. traditional course. The affirmative In so doing, he assumes the affirma has essentially to answer the question: tive position that some policy on this Why change? Any other arrangement question is good. He entirely ignores would place us in the preposterous the negative stand, that the govern position of equating change with ment ought to do nothing as such progress. matters are not within its competence. The professor says that an argu He assumes some change, and bases ment for the preservation of present the question on what change, rather conditions is but subjective, as though than sticking to the question as put, the present, the establishment were to change or not to change. always selfish, short-sighted, and es Mr. Marsh's argument against the

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casual-reasoning of present arrange April 30, 1964 ments also ignores the basic issue. He Charles Goetzinger, Editor states that a patent medicine can re The Speaker and Gavel lieve an allergy as well as a doctor's Department of Speech and Drama services. True, it can give temporary Golorado University rehef, but it cannot cure. We who Boulder, Golorado defend the established rules assmne a desire to remove an evil in society, Dear Professor Goetzinger: not merely to calm the mobs for an other day, or relieve pressure on the What is the significance of the governors. drawings on the cover of The Speaker These few examples are merely a and Gavel? Several people have synoptic view of Prof. Marsh's whole asked, and I am at a loss for a reply. argument and attitude, which I be Are they a permanent fixture? lieve to be superficial and destructive The consensus seems to be that without offering anything to replace they are neither especially appropri the destroyed edifice. The freedom ate nor very good art. which is called for is in reahty mere Sincerely, license to withdraw completely into the realm of specluation, leaving re Edgar E. MacDonald ality and possibility far below. To Governor, Region III live in the clouds of Utopia is nice, but DSR-TKA of no positive effect on this world's life. I do not beheve the autlior's pro posals would have any beneficent effect on debating, but would destroy its disciphne by encouraging specu lation. Editor's Note: I am, sir, and remain. The drawings repi'esent nothing in your faithful servant. particular, except we find the cover WiUiam C. Schrader, III rather soothing when working. Never T.K.A. Alumnus one to he hardnosed, it would he Bellarmine College For interesting to find out just how the ensic Society consensus runs in terms of the cover. Louisville, Kentucky Shall we start a poll?

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Code Chapter Name, Address Faculty Sponsor

AA Alabama, University, Ala Annabel D. Hagood AB Albion, Albion, Mich. Daniel J. Goulding AC Allegheny, Meadville, Pa Nels Juleus AD Alma, Alma, Mich. AE American, Washington, D. C. Jerome B. Polisky AF Amherst, Amherst, Moss. AG Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. G. F. Sparks AH Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark Robert S. Deutsch Al Auburn, Auburn, Ala. Jim Kilpatrick BA Boll State Teachers, Muncie, Ind. David W. Shepard BB Bates, Lewiston, Maine Brooks Quimby BC Bellormine, Louisville, Ky Rev. Joseph Morgan Miller BD Beloit, Beloit, Wise. Carl G. Balson BE Berea, Berea, Ky. Margaret McCoy BF Birmingham-Southern, Birmingham, Ala. Cal M. Logue BG Boston, Boston, Mass. BH Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Va Roger E. Soppington Bl Brighom Young, Provo, Utah Jed J. Richardson BJ Brooklyn, Brooklyn, N.Y. C. E. Porkhurst BK Brown, Providence, R. I. David F. Unumb BL Bucknell, Lewisburg, Pa. David E. Horlacher, Frank W. Merritt BM Butler, Indianapolis, Ind. Nicholas M. Cripe CA Capital, Columbus, Ohio Tom Ludlum CB Carleton, Northfield, Minn. Ado M. Harrison CC Cose Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio Donald Morston CD Chicago, Chicago, III. Richard L. Varnway CE Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Mary C. Coldwell CF Clark, Wooster, Mass. Neil R. Schroeder CG Colgate, Hamilton, N. Y. Robert G. Smith CH Colorado, Boulder, Colo. R. Victor Hornock Cl Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colo. James A. Johnson CJ Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. John W. Vlandis CK Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y. John F. Wilson CL Cornell, Mt. Vernon, Iowa Walter F. Stromer CM Creighton, Omaha, Neb Mrs. J. L. Schneller DA Dartmouth, Hanover, N. H Herbert L. James DB Davidson, Davidson, N. C. Grace G. Lilly DC Denison, Granville, Ohio Lionel Cocker DD Denver, Denver, Colo. Paul Hunsinger DE DePauw, Greencastle, Ind. Robert 0. Weiss DF Dickinson, Carlisle, Pa. Herbert Wing DG Duke, Durham, N. C. Joseph Coble Weatherby EA Elmira, Elmira, N. Y. Kenneth W. Pauli EB Emory and Henry, Emory, Va. Roy C. Brown EC Emory, Atlanta, Go James Z.Robun ED Evansville, Evonsville, Ind. Ted J. Foster FA Florida, Gainesville, Flo William B. Lashbrook, Gerald P. Mohrmann FB Florida State, Tallahassee, Flo Gregg Phifer FC George Washington, Washington, D. C. George F. Henigon, Jr. FD Grinnell, Grinnell, Iowa William Vanderpool HA Hamilton, Clinton, N. Y. J. Franklin Hernt HB Hampden-Sydney, Hampden-Sydney, Va. D. M. Allan HC Hanover, Hanover, Ind. Stanley B. Wheater HD Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. Harry P. Kerr HE Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii Donald Klopf

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Code Chapter Name, Address Faculty Sponsor

HF Hiram, Hiram, Ohio - Theodore Wolwick HG Howard, Birmingham, Ala. - G. Allan Yeomans HI Howard, Washington, D. C. Donald F. McHenry

lA Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. A. E. Whitehead IB Illinois, Urbono, III. — IC Indiana, Bloomington, Ind. . E. C. Chenoweth ID Indiana State, Terre Haute, Ind. Otis J. Aggertt IE Iowa State, Ames, Iowa R. W. Wilkie IF Iowa State Teachers, Cedar Falls, Iowa William Wagner IG Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Todd Willy JA John Carroll, Cleveland, Ohio Austin J. Freeley

KA Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Wilmer Linkugel KB Kansas State, Manhattan, Kansas. - Mrs. M. W. Taylor KC Kentucky, Lexington, Ky Gifford BIyton KD Kings, Wilkes Barre, Pa . Robert E. Connelly KE Knox, Galesburg, III Donald L. Torrence

LA Lehigh, Bethlehem, Pa. H. Barrett Davis LB Lincoln Memorial, Harrogate, Tenn. — Earl H. Smith LC Long Beach State, Long Beach, Calif. . Rita Gilbert LD Louisiana State, Baton Rouge, La. — Waldo W. Braden LE Loyola, Baltimore, Md Rev. William Davish, S.J. LF Loyola, Chicago, III. Donald J. Stinson LG Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Va. Harold Gorretson

MA Manchester, North Manchester, Ind. Paul Roten MB Mankato State, Mankato, Minn — Vernon Earl Beckman MC Marquette, Milwaukee, Wis - A. Berkley Driessel MD Maryland, Washington, D. C. L. Denton Crews ME Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. — Richard F. Smith MF Memphis State, Memphis, Tenn MG Mercer, Macon, Georgia Helen G. Thornton MH Miami, Miami, Fla. Donald Sprogue MI Miami, Oxford, Ohio Bernard F. Phelps MJ Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. N. Edd Miller MK Michigan State, East Lansing, Mich.. jerry M. Anderson ML Middlebury, Middlebury, Vt. Frederick Bowman MM Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Robert Scott MN Mississippi, University, Miss. C. M. Getchell, K. W. Tyson MO Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Robert Friedman MP Montana State, Missoula, Mont. Ralph Y. McGinnis MQ Montclair State, Upper Montclair, N. J. Karl R. Moll MR Morehouse, Atlanta, Ga. Robert Brisbane MS Morgan State, Baltimore, Md Harold B. Chinn MT Mount Mercy, Pittsburgh, Pa.. Thomas A. Hopkins MU Mundelein, Chicago, III. Sister Mary Antonia, B.V.M. MV Murray State, Murray, Ky. James Albert Tracy MW Muskingum, New Concord, Ohio . James L. Golden

NA Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. Don Olson NB Nevada, Reno, Nev. .. Robert S. Griffin NC New Hampshire, Durham, N. H. Phyllis Williamson ND New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. M. W. C. Eubonk NE New Mexico Highlands, Las Vegas, N. M.. - Walter F. Brunet NF New York, Fredonia, N. Y.. NG New York (Univ. Hts.), New York, N. Y George B. Sargent II NH New York (Wash. Sq.), New York, N. Y Merritt B. Jones Nl North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Donald K. Springen NJ North Dakota, Grand Forks, N. D. John S. Penn NK Northwestern, Evanston, III. Frank D. Nelson NL Notre Dome, Notre Dome, Ind. Leonard Sommer https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol1/iss4/1 36 et al.: Complete Issue 1(4)

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OA Oberlin, Oberlin, Ohio Paul Boase OB Occidental, Los Angeles, Calif OC Ohio, Athens, Ohio Lorin C. Stoats OD Ohio State, Columbus, Ohio OE Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, Ohio Ed Robinson OF Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. Wayne Brockriede OG Oregon, Eugene, Ore W. Scott Nobles OH Oregon State, Corvallis, Ore. Ralph W. Peterson PA Pacific, Forest Grove, Ore. Albert C. Hingston PB Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa Malthon M. Anapol PC Pennsylvania State, University Park, Pa. Clayton H. Schug PD Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bob Newman PE Pomono, Claremont, Calif. Josetto L. Maxwell PF Purdue, Lafayette, Ind. John T. Rickey PG Queens College, N. Y. Wilbur Gilmon RA Rondolph-Mocon, Ashlond, Vo. Edgar E. MacDonald RB Rhode Island, Kingston, R. I Agnes D. Doody RC Richmond, Richmond, Vo. Bert E. Bradley, Jr. RD Roanoke, Solem, Va William R. Coulter RE Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N. Y Joseph Fitzpotrick RF Rockford, Rockford, III Henry von Moltke RG Rutgers, New Brunswick, N. J. Albert A. Austen SA St. Anselm's, Manchester, N. H. John A. Lynch SB St. Cloud State, St. Cloud, Minn. James Pitzer SC St. Lawrence, Canton, N. Y Charles R. Gruner SD San Francisco State, San Francisco, Calif. Henry E. McGuckin, Jr. SE Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif. Upton S. Palmer SF South Carolina, Columbia, S. C Merrill G. Christophersen SG South Dakota, Vermillion, S. D. Harold W. Jordan SH Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. James H. McBath SI Southern Methodist, Dallas, Texas Harold Weiss SJ Southwest Missouri State, Springfield, Mo. Holt Spicer SK Stanford, Polo Alto, Calif. Jon M. Ericson SL State College for Teachers, Albany, N. Y. Dr. Richard Wilkie SM Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y. Paul E. Reid TA Temple, Philadelphia, Pa. Ralph Towne TB Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn Robert L. Hickey TC Texas, Austin, Texas Martin Todaro TD Texas Technical, Lubbock, Texas P. Merville Larson TE Tufts, Medford, Mass. Robert M. O'Neill, Anthony Z. Roismon TF Tulone, New Orleans, La. E. A. Rogge UA Ursinus, Collegeville, Pa. A. G. Kershner, Jr. UB Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah George A. Adamson UC Utah State, Logan, Utah Rex E. Robinson VA Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. Frank Woods VB Vermont, Burlington, Vt. Robert Huber VC Virginia', Charlottesville, Va. John Graham VD Virginia Polytechnic, Blocksburg, Vo., E. A. Hancock WA Wobash, Crowfordsville, Ind. Joseph O'Rourke, Jr. WB Woke Forest, Winston-Solem, N. C. Franklin R. Shirley WC Washington, St. Louis, Mo Earnest Brondenberg WD Washington, Seattle, Wash David Strother WE Washington and Jefferson, Washington, Pa. James Marshall WF Washington and Lee, Lexington, Vo. William W. Chaffin WG Washington Stote, Pullman, Wash. R. P. Fausti WH Wayne State, Detroit, Mich. Rupert L. Cortright Wl Woynesburg, Woynesburg, Pa. A. M. Mintier WJ Wesleyan, Middletown, Conn. Bruce Morkgraf WK Western Kentucky State, Bowling Green, Ky. Russell H. Miller

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Code Chapter Name, Address Faculty Sponsor

WL Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, Mich. Deldee M. Herman WM Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio . Warren Guthrle WN Westminster, New Wilmington, Po. — WO West Virginia', Morgontown, W. Vo. Douglas Stollord WP Wichita, Wichita, Kansas Mel Moorhouse WQ Willamette, Solem, Ore. Howard W. Runkel WR William and Mary, Wllllomsburg, Vo. Donald L. McConkey WS Williams, Wllllomstawn, Moss. George R. Connelly WT Wisconsin, Madison, WIs. Winston L. Brembeck WU Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WIs. Goodwin F. Berquist WV Wittenberg, Springfield, Ohio G. Vernon Kelley WW Wooster, Wooster, Ohio J. Gorber Drusholl WX Wyoming, Loromle, Wyo. Patrick Marsh XA Xoxler, Cincinnati, Ohio Rev. Vincent C. Horrigon, S.J. YA Yale, New Haven, Conn. — Rollin G. Osterweis YB Yeshivo, New York, N. Y. David Fleisher

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