1932 Cedrus Yearbook

CEDRUS COMMITTAL SERVICE This year the Y. W. C. A. adopted, for permanent use, the beautiful Com- mittal Service in loving memory of Frances McChesney who wrote it last year. The service was held in the Presbyterian Church which was simply but beautifully decorated with ferns and candles. The girls, dressed in white, entered the candle-lit church singing the pro- cessional. Martha Waddle, our president, presided over the beautiful sacred service with her usual sincere leadership. The service consists of appropriate songs and Bible verses, testimonies from old members, the pledging of the new members and the recessional to our Y. W. song—when the girls leave the church carrying their lighted candles. During the service Frances' picture was under a small light on the organ. Behind it was a large basket of chrysanthemums which were presented to Mrs. McChesney after the service. L. L. S. DEBATING TEAMS Intercollegiate debating was resumed this year, and the teams under the direction of Dean C. W. Steele had quite a successful season. A team composed of Franklin Trubee, Walter Kilpatrick, Marion Hostetler, and Joseph Free took the negative of the question, "Resolved, that the United States should recognize Soviet Russia." At a debate conference at North Manchester, Indiana, they won the de- cision from a Manchester team and had non-decision debates with Bowling Green and Franklin Colleges. Later in the year they defeated the Wilmington men': team. Cedarville had an affirmative and a negative team for the question, "Re solved, that the entrance of women into the industrial and political life of the United States is to be deplored." The affirmative team was composed of Martha Waddle, Eloise McLaughlin (silent member), Marion Hostetler and Joseph Free; and the negative, of Rachel Douthett, Bernese Elias, and Gertrude Martin. Both teams debated Wittenberg, and the affirmative team also met representatives of Miami University, Wilmington College, and Rio Grande College. M. S. H. Sixty-fin