Varsil!f Debate
Dr. A. E. Whitehead
Thirty Idaho debaters, coached by A. E. Whitehead, participated in over 200 intercollegiate debates during the year. Laurence Buckland and Jack Menge represented Idaho in a debate with Sir Edward Boyle and the Honorable Anthony Wedgewood-Benn of Oxford University on the subject: "Resolved: That the danger of war can best be averted by an all-purpose Anglo-American alliance." Idaho won second place in two divisions at the Northern Division tournament December 6 and 7. Laurence Buckland and Jack Menge and Tom Rigby and Paul Rigtrup placed for Idaho. In the triangular tournament with Whibnan and Washington State College the men's team tied for firsts. Mary Louise Will and Shirley Jacobsen tied for second in the junior college conference. In February, three teams won the Lewiston triangular meet against WSC and NICE. At the Pacific Forensic League meet in Reno, Laurence Buckland entered oratory, afterdinner speaking and discussion; and Jack Menge spoke in the extemporaneous and discussion divisions. Meets with Gonzaga and Montana State University completed the season.
First row· Mary Louise Wtll, Helen Means, Sh•rley T<Jnner, Genev<J Ferguson. Shirley J<1coboen . . Second row: L<lurence Bucki<Jnd, John Menq&, Goodm<1n Curtis, Tom Riqby ... Third row· Perry Dodds. Grant S..ulle, Ed Aochenbrener, Art Sutton, Julius Peterson, John Gibbs, P<1ul Riqlrup, Co..ch A. E. Whlteheed.
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