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Debaters Strive For National Acclaim
When Dr. Chester Gibson and
his assistant, George Coulter
began planning for the debate
year this past August, they set
one primary goal: to finish the
season as one of the strongest
teams in the South and to gain
national respect for West Georgia
debate.
With the season nearly half
completed, the young West
Georgia squad has taken
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NOVICE DEBATERS AND SUCCESSES
West Georgia’s debate team has won 23 awards in ten tournaments.
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significant steps toward the
realization of its’ goals. The
squad has won over one hundred
debates in regional and national
competition, debating the
national top: “Resolved that
greater controls should be placed
on the gathering and utilization of
information about U.S. citizens
by government agencies.” The
debaters have gathered more
than 4000 pieces of evidence on
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this topic from such places as the
West Georgia College Library,
the Library of Congress in
Washington, and Law libraries at
the University of Georgia, Emory
and Mercer,
TOURNAMENTS
From the ten tournaments they
have attended, West Georgia
debaters have returned twenty
three awards to the campus
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Among West Georgia’s debate
victims have been Notre Dame,
Michigan State, North Carolina,
the University of Pittsburg,
Dartmouth College, the
University of Wisconsin, Ohio
State, Northwestern University,
Texas Tech, Emory University,
the University of Georgia and the
University of Alabama. These
teams have been encountered in
tournaments ranging from the
University of Kentucky westward
to the University of Houston.
Highlighting the season have
been a first place finish out of
fifty teams at Kentucky, a second
place finish out of fifty-four
teams at Middle Tennessee State
University, a third place finish
out of sixty teams at North
Carolina and numerous in
dividual speaker awards.
Ray McConnell, a freshman
from Calhoun, Georgia, recently
finished first individually out of
some two hundred debaters rated
at the University of Florida
Tournament. Barry Banther, a
junior from Mountain City,
Georgia, has been consistently
selected for individual speaking
awards in competition with some
of the finest debaters in the
country. Elliot Pood and Mark
Rowe, transfer students from
Broward Junior College in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, have
teamed up to win the Kentucky
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tournament and have, between
them, won seven team or in
dividual awards.
Juniors Banther, Rowe, and
Pood are joined by Bill Driver, a
junior from Carrollton, to form
the nucleus of the varsity squad.
Driver has teamed with Banther
to win an award at North
Carolina and with McConnell to
finish as the top negative team at
Valdosta State.
NOVICE DEBATERS
The West Georgia Novice
debaters include Ray McConnell,
Bruce Rogers, Bonnie Bunn,
Elizabeth Somerville, Sue
Balmer, Terry Maughon, Jesse
Hall, Joanne Hudon, Kathy
Sungberg and Steve Roberson.
Rogers, like McConnell, has
excelled individually, with two
speaker awards. As part of a
team, he and McConnell finished
as one of the three undefeated
teams at the University of
Florida tournament. Most of
these debaters have never had
any experience in debate, but the
coaches are aiming toward
getting them ready to compete
for National Championship of
Novice debaters at the University
of Chicago in April.
The West Georgia debaters
have little time to reflect on the
past, however. This week they
will travel to Samford University
to compete against fifty teams
from fourteen states. This will
conclude the Fall Quarter ac
tivities. During the Winter
Quarter the tournament schedule
will continue, but the West
Georgia debaters will also be
participating in several on
campus debates.
In early January, for example,
the student selected as the best
debater in the United States, Joe
Loveland of the University of
North Carolina and his colleague,
Joe McGuire, will come to the
West Georgia campus for an
audience debate against Barry
Banther and Mark Rowe. West
Georgia debaters will also
present several programs for
classes on campus and civic
groups in the community.