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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us May 14, 2005 Speech and debate riding high again By Jennifer Squires Ashland Daily Tidings Coming off its second state title in as many years and its 12th since 1990, the Ashland High speech and debate team has another big test on the horizon: showing off its skills to the community that supports them through the Youth Activities Levy. AHS Speech and Debate Week Monday Lincoln-Douglas Debate , AHS Library, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Topic: “Resolved: The United States has a moral obligation to promote democratic ideals in other nations.” Team captains: Ian Lowrie vs. Rachel Sohl Wednesday Oregon Style Cross Examination Debate , AHS Library, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Topic: “Resolved: That the United States federal government should establish a foreign policy substantially increasing its support of United Nations peacekeeping operations.” Ian Lowrie and Philp Shilts vs. Rob McNamara and Kyle Lachmund Thursday Oregon Style Public Debate , AHS Library, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Topic: A current event topic related to United States domestic or international policy, which will be determined 15 minutes in advance of the debate. Ian Lowrie and Philip Shilts vs. Graham Trail and John Lion All debates are free; donations are accepted. Friday Speech Night , Mountain Avenue Theatre, 7 to 9:30 p.m., with one intermission. Duo Interpretation — Scott Sell and Clayton Hormel, Impromptu Speaking — Graham Trail, Poetry — Mina Shahin, Expository Speaking — Anna Adams, Student Congress — John Briery and Hunter Gimbel, Humorous Interpretation — Rachel Wanderscheid, Dramatic Interpretation — Kelly Greenberg, Prose Reading — Briana Wood, Radio Commentary — Emma Whitman, U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking — Kyle Lachmund, Duo Interpretation — Bobby Alter and Rachel Wanderscheid Speech Night tickets are $8 and can be purchased from AHS Speech & Debate team members, at the high school main office, or at Mountain Avenue Theatre on Friday. Beginning Monday, the speech and debate team will host Speech Week at the high school. Speech Week, an extension of the Speech Night event former coach John Tredway organized during his 30-year stint mentoring the team, will give community members the opportunity to see debates between some of the 50 students involved with the team. The weeklong event will also act as a fundraiser to send Ian Lowrie, Philip Shilts, Kelly Greenberg and Kyle Lachmund to the national tournament in Philadelphia June 11 through 18. “We want people to have the opportunity to see debates,” said first-year AHS speech coach Susan Thorngate. “This is a young team, and they worked very, very hard.” The Grizzlies won the Oregon Speech State Championship on April 23 at Linfield College in McMinnville. AHS senior Rachel Sohl was one of 15 tournament competitors to win the four-year speech state championships participant award. Sohl, who was a quarterfinalist in the Lincoln-Douglas Values debate and finished fourth in the Impromptu Speaking event, qualified for and competed in the state tournament all four years of high school. “The competition was outstanding, and our kids really gathered together as a team, and everybody contributed to this win,” Thorngate said. Ashland High has won the state title 12 times in the three decades OSAA has been keeping records, including first-place honors last year, and has brought home more state titles than any other extracurricular activity at the school. Even though the quality of their program blazes from the championship banners hanging in the Mountain Avenue Gymnasium and the stacks of team trophies piled in one of the speech and debate rooms at the high school, Sohl thinks this year’s state title will be remembered as one of the program’s proudest moments. Not only has the team held together through three coaches in four years, but the win this year was earned by a team with a larger percentage of novices than any other Grizz speech and debate state title. There are only seven seniors involved in the program this year. “I think a lot of the reason we’re good is because we have a strong tradition,” Sohl said. “We really do talk about continuing the tradition.” At the state tournament, Mina Shahin took first in the Poetry Reading event, Kyle Lachmund tied for third place in the Lincoln-Douglas Policy debate and the team of Ian Lowrie and Phillip Silts tied for third in the Oregon Style Cross-examination debate. Grizz fourth-place finishers included Bobby Alter and Rachel Wanderscheid (Dual Interpretation), Anna Adams (Expository Speaking), Emma Whitman (Oratory Speaking) and John Briery (Student Congress). Wanderscheid also took fourth in the Memorized Humorous Interpretation event. More than 425 high school students representing 58 schools participated in the state championship. Ashland High boasted a 26-student delegation, breaking the school’s record for the highest number of students to qualify for the championship event. Students qualify for the state meet by placing first or second at the district tournament. Staff writer Jennifer Squires can be reached at 482-3456 x 3019 or [email protected]. DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Online Pharmacy Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations Hammocks Water Filter Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. Site Search: RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams