VOL. LIX AUSTIN, TEXAS, DECEMBER, 1974 NO. 4 ILPC Convention To Be Held March 21-22 Spring Meet Program Changes Publication Ratings Will Be Announced Involve Careful Planning The Interscholastic League Press Conference annual con­ vention will be held in Austin on March 21-22. The 1975 Spring Meet program for holding academic, literary, One- 3. Each school may certify Newspaper and yearbook ratings will be announced, and has several changes in format Act Play, Girls' Track and Field, three contestants in literary and more than 300 Individual Achievement Awards medals pre­ which the District Director, Spon­ Girls' Tennis and Golf in the Dis­ academic events to the District sented. "~ Meet. In journalism, two contest­ sors and District Executive Com­ trict Spring Meet. The first date is Registration will open at noon Friday, March 22, with ses­ mittee should plan for. March 31-April 5 and the last April ants may be certified in each of the District Meets 7-12, 1975. journalism contests. Each school sions starting at 1 p.m. The sessions will run until about 10 1. The District Meets this year Note also that the first weekend may enter cne One-Act Play in p.m. Friday, and there will be sessions all day Saturday. will consist of literary, academic for scheduling Boys' Track and District Meet. The annual publications ratings and One-Act Plays and Boys' and Field, Golf and Tennis is April 11- 4. In Boys' and Girls' Golf and will be announced at a grand as­ The ILPC office will send out Girls' Track and Field, Tennis and 12 and the last weekend for these Tennis there may be two entries sembly in the Austin Municipal housing reservation forms to all Golf. All of these events are to be events is April 18-19, 1975. Area in each event. There must be a Auditorium Saturday night. The members. Schools may elect to considered in the all-around dis­ One-Act Play contests for districts champion and runner-up deter­ meetings will all be over at about make their own reservations inde­ trict championship. affected will be held the week of mined in both of these events. 9:30 p.m. Saturday. pendently, or may use the housing Two Weeks Open April 7-12. Separate Flights A $2 registration fee will be re­ request form to have ILPC make 2. Note that there are two weeks Increased Representation 5. It is strongly recommended quired of all teachers and students their reservations. that entries from the same school attending the convention. Dr. Max be entered in separate flights in R. Haddick, ILPC director, said Deadlines For Members Poetry Interpretation Book speech, debate, tennis and golf. that he expects more than 4,000 Feb. 1 is the last date for getting This eliminates students from the delegates at the convention. issues of newspapers in for the same school competing against one Student Sessions rating service. Yearbook members Ready For Speech Students another in the first round and ILPC President Liz Garrett of must have sent yearbooks, checks should, if flights are properly Ennis High School will be in charge and rating sheets to the critic- Volume III of the Bibliography anthologies of the poets' works, re­ planned, place the best in the finals. of all the student business sessions. judges no later than Jan. 10 if they and Guide To Poetry Interpretation cordings and general reference Advancement Procedure She will be assisted by Vice Presi­ wish to receive ratings. No year­ has just been printed and is now books. 6. There must be a determination dent Donnie Burk of Dallas Adams books or criticism-judging fees can The new volume is priced at $2 of the first, second and third win­ Vice be sent to ILPC. Books with all available to schools. NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL MEMuu.x-. Superintendents Eug c nc orucver of Stockdale, kennern Flory High School, Junior High The new volume by Dr. John Rex per copy. Special speech order ners to the Regional Meet through President Sandra Moss of Iowa forms and checks must be mailed of Hondo and J. N. (Pete) Wilson of Floresville were the newly elected members at the November League Wier and John Rex Wier III con­ blanks were mailed to all schools competitive elimination in literary Park Junior High, and Secretary directly to the critics. events in districts Legislative Council meeting in Austin. Flory was elected to the council for his first term. Stoever and Feb. 15 is the last date for hav­ tains Category A: Modern Aus­ in late November. and academic Janet Clepper, elected from Black tralian/Canadian Poets, Category where there are three entries. Wilson were reelected. "The men are the basis for the League's success in providing a well rounded Junior High of Houston. ing individual achievements awards Dr. Wier says that Volume IV contest entries in to the state of­ B: Modern American Poets III, In debate, third place shall be offering of literary, academic and athletic contests," said Dr. Rhea H. Williams, League Director. "I am They will conduct meetings to will be ready for distribution in awarded to the losing team in the busi­ fice. Haddick said that all members Category C: Modern European. proud to work with such men who devote so much time and effort to making sure that League contests elect officers, conduct general Poets I, plus bibliographies giving September, 1975. semi-finals with the highest score ness and do pre-planning for the would receive entry forms for the given by the judges. In district *ro +He best possible and administered for the educational benefit of the students of Texas." next year's convention and contests. IAA contests well in advance of the One-Act Play contests, two plays Friday Night Dance deadline. or will be selected by the judge The ILPC officers will also be Special Sessions judges to advance to the next high­ hosts at a special members-only Louise Teacher Lists Learning Words By Using Them Haddick said that there would be er meet. dance on Friday night. The dance sessions in newspaper, yearbook, It should be noted that with more had been discontinued in past years, magazine, radio, television, photog­ contestants there will need to be but this year's officers asked that Topics For Speech Purpose Of Spelling Contests raphy and advertising at the con­ better planning, more judges and it be reinstated on a trial basis to vention. He added that more than survive without the help of the slightly longer scheduling. Your By DR. KARL AMES stitution and Contest Rules (pages words beyond our printed list, you see if interest is great enough to 60 sessions are planned. He urged Communist party? suggestions relative to how this 109-111) the way to read the words may have trouble. For you know put it back into the regular conven­ By CECIL L. TRAINOR State Spelling Director that advisers assign students to 15. Can President Ford's federal­ year's arrangement of the Spring and when to define them. Also, your that ten per cent of the words on tion program. Louise High School attend as many different sessions ly-financed, state and local govern­ Meet program works out will be Every year we do our best to teachers who pronounce the words the tests are NOT on the list. And Special Working Credentials? as possible so that all students and ment-run program of public serv­ appreciated, especially with regard make the statewide spelling con­ now have more time to look them in the case of the tiebreakers, most Each member publication will be Persuasive Topics schools could receive maximum ed­ ice jobs work? to the number of contestants in lit­ tests as uniform and as fair as pos­ over before each contest to check of the words are not listed. So you mailed two voting delegate badges. ucational benefit from the conven­ 1. Is, or was, Nixon's phlebitis 16. Is the new Mexican oil find a erary and academic events. sible. Thus we describe in the Con- on alternative pronunciations and need to look at the roots of the lan­ These will be needed to gain ad­ tion. psychologically caused ? hoax? meanings. Hopefully, inequities in guage, especially our numerous mission to the voting sessions, and ILPC policy requires that each 2. Has Palestine become an inter­ 17. Should voting be made man­ conducting the tests on regional, viable prefixes. all business sessions, including the student delegation be accompanied national power? datory ? district and state levels will be election. by an adult sponsor and that the 3. Is the world food crisis affect­ Informative Topics Debate Group To Pick minimized. Words in the News Any proposed changes to the con­ sponsor stay at the same hotel or States? 1. What is phlebitis? We do try to use words current­ stitution or by-laws must be mailed ing the United motel as the students. 4. Should women have equal rank 2. How has Palestine become a 1974-75 Debate Topic Memory Unreliable ly in the news. Witness on this in to the state office in time for and privilege in organized reli­ greater power? More important, however, than year's list "apartheid," "exurbia," copies to be sent to all schools at Special Consultants gion ? 3. Where is the food crisis the At the late December meeting in Selection by Vote these matters of procedure are "Tel Aviv." Occasionally we hear least two weeks before the conven­ The sessions will be conducted 5. Has the influence of women in most severe? St.