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November 10, 2004
Victory for
Speech team
I Karlin Johnson
II The Clackamas Print
The Speech and Debate team has
begun this year’s season with two con
secutive victories.
The team took firsfplace in the com
munity college division at their first
competition, held at Lewis and Clark
College (LC) three weeks ago, and took
first place again at their second competi
tion held at Lower Columbia
Community College Nov. 5-6.
Attending die competition at LC
were 22 different two and four year
schools, including Lewis and Clark
College, Willamette University, Mt.
Hood Community College, University
of Oregon, University of Portland,
Pacific University, Linfield College,
Portland State University, and more.
Holding true to the team motto,
“When we are prepared, we will not be
bound to mediocrity,” the team did very
well at each competition.
“[I was happy] that the team did as
well as it did, and that we were pre
pared,” said Speech Team Advisor Kelly
Brennan.
Many team members took individual
places at the tournament LC tournament.
Chris Hammond took first place in
Novice Prose Interpretation, and finalist
in Open Drama.
Melissa Stott took first plaee in Junior
Persuasion, and third place in Open
Persuasive Speaking.
Eric Pearson took second place in
Novice Extemporaneous Speaking, sec
ond place in Impromptu, third place in
Debate, and was named seventh Best
Overall Speaker at die tournament out of
200 speakers.
Alisa Poul took second place in
s Novice Informative, third place in
Debate, and was named sixth overall
Best Speaker at the tournament
Erin Brennan took third place in
Novice Drama Interpretation.
Joanna Pearson won finalist in Junior
Extemporaneous Speaking, finalist in
Impromptu, and finalist in Open Prose
Interpretation, and Elizabeth Pearson
won finalist in Open Informative.
At the recently held tournament at
Lower Columbia, the team took first
over 15 other schools, and each team
member earned an individual trophy.
Brennan is looking forward to “see
ing the students grow individually and
. collectively as a team.”
He said, “1 think there is a lot of
potential for us to accomplish great
■ if we keep focused and work
The Estonian Men’s choir, “Revalia,” visited Clackamas Oct. 24. They performed a concert in o
tion with the Portland Boy’s choir and “Unistus,” the Clackamas alumni choir.
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European choir visits C
Estonia’s Revalia,’ an all
male choir, sang at CCC as
part of a U.S. tour.
Jeff Sorensen
The Clackamas Print
Lonnie Cline was reunited with his
friend, Estonian choir director Hirvo
Surva, when the Clackamas alumni
choir “Unistus” was visited a few
weeks ago by a male chamber choir
while on tour in North America.
After spending some time in New
York, Surva brought his choir out to
Clackamas for a concert on Oct. 24.
“We did this concert with the
Portland Boys Choir and Unistus,” said
Clackamas Choral Director Cline.
“They got a standing ovation every
where they went.”
“There’s nothing you can say,” said
Unistus tenor Josh Weir. “They’re too
good. They make it sound like they do
this every day.”
The Estonians, who call themselves
“Revalia,” arrived in New York on Oct.
18.
“[They] saw the sights and sang a
concert for the local Estonians of New Estonian composer,” said
York City,” said Cline.
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“We’ve been preparing for them to states as early as February,
come since we were there [in July],”
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said Weir.
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