Less Pressure Towards Speech Competitions

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32297, 15 May 1970, Page 14

Less Pressure Towards Speech Competitions

Persons who took speech and drama training today were using it to further their careers and improve their everyday speech rather than to win competitions, Mrs E. M. Grut, of Waimate. said last evening’. ,

Mrs Grut was the judge ofi the speech and drama section I of the Christchurch Competi-| tions Society's annual festival. The section finished last night. * “There is a big change in outlook tn speech training,” Mrs Grut said. “The emphasis today is on speech for everyday purposes.” It Was probably for this reason that entries were down, she said. Mrs Grut said she was reluctant to make comparisons in standards with other areas, as the quality of the competitors was not always indicative of the work being done in the centre. Results of yesterday’s competitions were:— SRUCH AND DRAMA (Judge. Mrs E. M. Grut. Waimate) Junior recitation (10 years and under 12). Elizabeth Owens 1, Karen-Anne Howard 2, Susan Powell 3. Humorous recitation (12 years and under 14): Wendy Kelly 1, Maryrose Wilkinson 2, Susan Hilton 3. Girls’ test <l2 years and under 14)s Wendy Kelly 1, Catherine Owens 2, Catherine Cooper 3. Humorous recitation (10 years and under 12): Karen-Anne Howard 1. Susan Robertson 2. Norr-humor ous junior recitation (uner 8): Eilish Moran 1, John Davies 2. Amanda Keenan 3. Dialogue (under 12): Donna-Marie Davies and Raewyn Brown 1. Scholarships (under 10): Fiona Samuel 1, Elizabeth Byrne 2, Judith Byrne 3. Junior recitation <8 years and under 10): Lynlea Mclntyre 1, Fiona Dingwall 2, Jane Wiseman 3. Humorous character recital (under 12): Therese Moran 1, Raewyn Brown 2, Donna-Marie Davies 3. Girls' test (10 years and under 12): Elizabeth Owens 1. Maree Blogg |2, Wendy Frew 3. Humorous recitation (16 years and over): Mary Moran 1, Sandra Shaw 2, Anthony Forster 3, Humorous character recital (16 years and over): John Caldwell 1. Josephine O’Sullivan 2, Michelle O’Sullivan 3. Humorous recitation (14 years and under 16): !Charmayne Forster 1. Helen Anderson 2, Gerard Shaw* 3. Prepared psalm reading (12 years and over.): Sandra Shaw 1, Gerard Shaw 2. Phillippa Brown 3, RATIONAL DANCING (Judge, Miss J. Hardy, West Gore) Highland fling /under 12. novice): Carolyn McNabb 1, Pauline Ellis 2, Nicola Crake 3. Seann Triubhais (10 years and under 12): Susan Savage 1, Dianne Fowlds 2. Karen Duncan 3. Irish jig (under 8): Sharon

I Anderson 1, Tracy Journee 2. j Karen McPherson 3. Sailor's 1 hornpipe <l2 years and under 1 14): Paulette Reid 1, Cheryl 1 .Lethaby 2, Ainslie Craig 3. < (Sword dance <8 years and , : under 10): Christine Webb 1, Kerry Gleischmann 2, Phillipa [ Reid 3. Sword dan-ce (12 years;' • and under 14): Paulette Reid I. 1 , Cheryl Lethaby 2, Robyn Bowie I; » 3. Highland reel (under 12): : . Heather Henderson 1. Susan); Savage 2, Rosemary Johnston 3. Highland Hing (under 8); • • Tracy Journee 1, Deborah Good;, > 2, Karen McPherson 3. High- i land fling (12 years and under i 14); Cheryl Lethaby 1, Paulette) ■ Reid 2, .Robyn Bowie 3. Sailor’s; : hornpipe (8 years and under> 10): Christine Webb 1. Gail Ren-I • wick 2, Phillipa Reid 3. Sailor’s ■ hornpipe (10 years and under . 12): Rosemary Johnston 1. , Susan Savage 2, Susan Smith 3. ' Waltz clog <l2 years and over): Jenette Mackie 1, Lynley Brown . 2, Paulette Reid 3. Irish jig (8 years and under 10): Phillipa Reid 1. Gail Renwick 2, Christine Webb 3. Irish jig <lO years and under 12); Susan Savage 1. Heather Henderson 2, Karen; j Duncan 3. Open highland fling; , i Lynley Brown 1, Judith Burrows; i 2, Rosemary Armstrong 3. Irish I i reel (12 years and under 14); r Cheryl Lethaby 1, Lindsey Doi-1 . heguy 2, Paul Sheppard 3. Reel! I O’Tulloch (open): Anitra Dawe ' 1, Lynley Brown 2, Rosemary I , Armstrong 3. Highland reel (14; » years and under 18): Robyn' • Powell 1, Lynley Brown 2, Jen ; . ette Mackie 3. Irish jig (12 - years and under 14): Chervil Lethaby 1, Paul Sheppard 2. •

Ainslie Craig 3. Seann Triubhais tunder IS): Lynley Brown 1. Judith Burrows 2. Annette Dugan 3. Seann Triubhais (open). Rosemary Armstrong 1, Anitra Dawe 2, Lynley Brown 3. DANCING (Mrs R Marshall, Lower Hutti | Classical ballet dance <7 iyears): Deidra Currie 1, Nicola Stevenson 2, Wendy Phelan 3. | Boys' tap dance solo (under 12): 'Warren Rasmussen 1. Brian Tait 12, Robert Wells 3. Character duo <l2 years and over): Elizabeth [Tait and Erin Barton 1. Kim McGavock and Fiona Penman 2. Song and tap dance duo (under 12): .tackle Pratley and Donna Pratley 1, Warren Rasmussen | and Jim Mason 2. Lynne Currie and Deidra Currie 3. Classical ballet dance (9 years): Belinda Angland 1. Lloma Beaumont 2. Deborah Olley 3. Tap dance solo (under 8): Donna Pratley 1. Leigh Patrick 2, Brent Hofenk 3. Pas de deux (under 12): Kathryn Ferigo and Damian Ferigo 1, Vivienne Lonsdale and Linda Martin 2, Adrienne Purver and Mark Fitzgerald 3. Skipjping dance (under 12): Susan Savage 1, Rosemary Johnston 2, Gail Renwick 3. Song and tap (dance solo <l4 years and under IB): Michael O'Connor 1, Gregory Tucker 2. Edith Brussovs 3. (Character duo (under 12): [Susanne Wintermute and Janline Diedrichs 1, Vivienne Luseombe and Sharyn Donaldson 2, Tracey Glasson and Leigh Patrick 3. Song and dance team ballet (open): Suzanne Day School of Dancing 1, Penni Venter School of Dancing 2, Murphy (School of Dancing 3. Classical [ballet dance (10 years and under 12): Dianne Honeybone 1. [Vivienne Lonsdale 2, Adrienne | Purver 3. Song and tap dance team tap ballet (open): Suzlnne Day School of Dancing 1. National dance <l2 years and under 14): Julie Hood 1. Robyn Bowie 2, Paulette Reid 3. Classical ballet dance <l2 years and i under 14): Paulette Reid 1, . Julie Hood 2. Anita Wong 3. Song and tap dance duo (any ' age): Kim Thompson and Chris- . tine Noble 1, Anne Paterson and , Michael O'Connor 2, Erin Barton and Elizabeth Tait 3. Poetic ■ or classical barefoot dance (14 ■years and under 16): Marie Kenny 1, Maureen Baker 2. Sheryl Giles 3.