Gene Worrell

National Champion Orator

Elsewhere in this issue you will find a picture of Eugene Worrell, Wake Forest law student, who in April won the national championship in oratory at a tournament in Knoxville, Tenn., over contestants from 110 colleges and universities throughout the United States, from the University of Redlands, California, to the Atlantic coast. We are proud of this feat and are glad that it is not an isolated case. Last year, for instance, the Old Gold and Black debaters won the championship of the South Atlantic states, and so it has been throughout the years. Membership in the literary societies is no longer compulsory, as it was in the bygone days, but those who do join them now are there for, business. "Although we have not yet been able to produce an All-American football player," Dr. Kitchin remarked, "we can claim the one champion inter-collegiate orator of America."

May 1940, Wake Forest College Alumni News