FEATURE
THE PRINT
February 15,1989
Page 9
Sherrard, speech team enjoying strong year
by Angela Wilson
Staff Writer
The accomplishments of
Mitch Sherrard in speech have
accorded him .great “personal
satisfaction,” and the Clackamas
speech team as a whole is doing
very well this year.
Sherrard is a member of the
speech team, and has been a final­
ist in the speech tournaments at
Lower Columbia Community
College and at Clark Community
College, performing oral interpre­
tation speeches.
Sherrard got involved in
speech in high school when he
was required to take a speech class.
The teacher suggested that he join
the speech team, and this started
his forensic career.
“I have always been a good
communicator, but the speech
classes have helped a great deal,”
Sherrard confided.
Oral interpretation speeches
are usually from plays or poetry.
Sherrard’s speech is a prose piece
written by H.P. Lovecraft.
“The speech has been fairly
successful,” Sherrard said. “If it is
done right it can be very disturb­
ing?’
"/ have always been a
good communicator,
but
the
speech
classes have helped a
great deal."
Sherrard feels that “being able to
adapt to the audience, and having
a good speech coach” have helped
him to succeed in tournaments.
“I respect Randy (Baker, head
of the speech department) as a
teacher because I think he knows
what he’s talking about,” Sher­
rard remarked. “It’s important to
have a good coach, and he’s the
best coach I’ve ever had.”
Sherrard is an English major
at Clackamas. Public speaking
did not come naturally for Sher­
rard, but now he gets a “per­
sonal satisfaction from doing
speeches,” and he just does it for
fun.
The speech team is doing well
this year. At the Clark Commu­
nity College tournament last term
Sara Lack won her first trophy.
There are two upcoming meets
for the speech team. In February
there will be a tournament at
Willamette University, and in
March they will journey to San
Francisco for another tournament.
photo by Tara Powers
Mitch Sherrard has been a finalist inseverai tournaments this
season, doing oral interpretation speeches.
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by Angela Wilson
Staff Writer
Beaches is a powerful film
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tionship. It shows that friendship
is a sacred thing between two
people, no matter what the dis­
tance between them.
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Bloom, an ambitious Broadway
actress from the Bronx. Barbara
Hershey portrays Hilary Whitney,
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CC and Hilary meet on the
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they are 11 years old. They imme­
diately become friends, and they
k' ep in touch through the years
y frequently writing letters to one
mother.
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their friendship grows. They are
reunited when they are 21, and
their lives are going the way they
always wanted. Hilary is living
with CC in New York and work­
ing as a lawyer for the ACLU, and
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CC’s career is starting to take off.
When Hilary’s father becomes
ill she moves back to San Fran­
cisco. The distance between the
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starts to show the strain of separa­
tion. They don’t get along the
next time they see each other, and
soon they don’t even write to each
other anymore.
This movie covers a period of
20 years in which you see the ups
and downs of their relationship,
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heartwarming story based on a
novel by Iris Rainier Dart. Midler
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