Standing in the top row from left to right Johnathan Joyner, John Newton, Damian Emory. Second row standing from left to right speech teacher Julia Brown, Farrah Robles, Andrew Rutledge, Alexis Stevenson. Kneeling from left to right Sabrina Carraway, Ethan Lynk, and Jonas Willis.
East Carteret High School National Forensic League speech and debate team hosted a Tarheel Forensic League tournament on March 28th, in Beaufort. The event was named the Billy Stanley Memorial Mariner Invitational to honor a debate parent whose support had helped his own son Will Stanley and Will’s teammates, the Debating Mariners, attain success and strength.
Ole Towne Rotary sponsored this event purchasing the trophies, research materials for students, judging materials, concessions for debaters and judges. Jeff Newton of Newton Law, Otway Hardware, Jerry Lawrence Construction, Frances S. Newton, Lyn Baker, Lowe’s food, Delta Kappa Gamma, Cynthia Weeks, the Carteret County Democratic Women, the Crystal Coast TEA Party, and East Carteret parents also made food and gave materials and support.
Over a hundred students converged on East Carteret, including debaters from Massey Hill Classical High School, Jack Britt, and Howard Health and Life Sciences Academy. .
Parents and aunts and grandparents, coordinated by Mary Lawrence, Evelyn Carraway, Ann Joyner, and Debbie Emory prepared judges’ food and concession stand sales and enlisted the volunteer judges from the East Carteret community family.
East’s own debate captain graduate and Tarheel Forensic League student of the year of 2014 and North Carolina Debater of the year of 2014, Jace Lawrence served as legislative debate parliamentarian and assisted in the preparations. Former East debate captain Liberty University student Joshua Allen Wade, a national champion in the college debate league, came to engineer the tournament, to do what is unique in North Carolina which only the tiny East Carteret debate team offers: a single-day speech invitational to opportune students to triple-enter in multiple events and double enter in debate. Mr. Wade coordinated tabulation and registration with Dr. Karen Hachmeister Skarda.
Dr. Skarda’s children George, Mariah, and Elissa Hachmeister are all graduate East Carteret speech team and mock trial debaters. Elissa Hachmeister, who studied law at Wake Forest, is representing the North American region in international moot court this month in Florida.
ECHS graduate debaters, parents, grandparents, relatives, community leaders, and the Crystal Coast TEA Party came to write ballots alongside judges from the attending schools. In order to make such an ambitious event possible, giving their time from our community were Lyn Baker, Evelyn Carraway, Bob Cavanaugh, Sarah Chewning, Emily and Royce Dudley, Debbie Emory, Taylor Griffin, Colleen Guthrie, Lee Ann Guthrie, Robert Holt, Ken Lang, Jace Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Mary Lawrence, Deena Lynk, Bob Malone, Janet and Patrick Murphy, JoAnn Newton, Cory Noe, Ruth Parker, Misty Rice, Karen Skarda, Harrison Smith, Chris Suggs, Caulean Vesey, Walter Wood, and Kathleen Zbytniuk.
In the national events, East Carteret’s congressional debate winners are 1st place Damian Emory and 2nd place Johnathan Joyner. Impromptu speaking winners are 1st place John Newton, 2nd place Andrew Rutledge, and 3rd place Ethan Lynk. Lincoln-Douglas debate winner is 2nd place Sabrina Carraway. Extemporaneous speaking winners are 1st place Ethan Lynk and 2nd place Andrew Rutledge. Original Oratory winner is 1st place Jonas Willis. Dramatic interpretation winner is 6th place Farrah Robles.
In the supplemental events, East Carteret’s oral interpretation winners are 2nd place Jonas Willis, 3rd place John Newton, and 5th place Sabrina Carraway. Radio announcing winners are 4th place John Newton, 6th place Farrah Robles, and honorable mention Alexis Stevenson. Improvisational duet acting 6th place winners are Ethan Lynk and Andrew Rutledge.
East Carteret awards their guests the first place sweepstake trophy to Howard Health and Life Science Academy, second to Jack Britt, and third to Massey Hill Classical. The overall individual sweepstakes tournament champion is East Carteret student John J. Newton, II, son of Jeff and Jo Ann Newton.
“We are grateful to Ole Towne Rotary and our community for making regional debate success possible for our beloved students in Carteret County,” says East Carteret’s debate coach teacher Julia Brown. Miss Brown introduced speech and debate to East Carteret in 1996, brought student congress to Hawaii Speech League in 1977, and is the 278th debate coach since 1925 to receive the National Forensic League Distinguish Service Medal.
The East Carteret debate team’s next challenges will be the Optimist International oratorical contests. If you would like to be a part of the ECHS legacy, please contact East Carteret teacher Julia Brown at julia1@stanfordalumni.org
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