Three News Stories About Various Clubs at North
The FHN Speech and Debate club is in full swing, with the next competition on Dec. 9 and 10.
At practices the club prepares for their own events by doing practice debates, public speaking skills and developing their personal strategy. Co-vice president and senior Savanna Degenhardt competes in the public forum and congressional debate events.
“While we are all competing individually or in pairs at competitions, we all help each other practice,” Degenhardt said.
Speech and Debate has both varsity
and novice subdivisions, and includes debate categories like public forum, where competitors debate with a partner against another pair. The Lincoln-Douglas debate is when participants compete solo.
“I feel pretty good about our performance, we usually do pretty well,” Degenhardt said. “The novices are good and I expect them to get better as the season goes on.”
The FHN Drama Club will hold auditions Dec. 7 for their upcoming spring musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” The story of an adolescent spelling showdown, the musical was written by Rachel Sheinkin and features music and lyrics by William Finn.
Preliminary auditions will be a monologue combined with a singing part. Callbacks will consist of collaborative dialogues and dance choreography. Those who don’t particularly enjoy singing shouldn’t be discouraged though.
“There are so many different positions for crew, but then there are also smaller parts,” Thespian President Mack Akerman said. “Where people were added in [and they don’t] have to physically sing.
Drama club is selling donuts on Dec. 8 and has been selling Krispy Kreme donuts in the mornings twice a year since 2022. They do this to raise money for the club’s Thescon trips in the winter and to help the club where needed throughout the year.
The fundraiser started when senior president Mack Akerman had gotten a job at Krispy Kreme and decided to bring it together to help the club.
The club also does other fundraisers such as selling cotton candy, hosting their karaoke nights, and partnering with Craig Hospital.
“I hope it’s something we do every year, I don’t know if they’ll stop since they won’t have any connections but it’s a nice event that people like doing,” Akerman said.
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