CAMPUS PERSONALITIES

Champion Orator, Edmund Reggie,

Takes Personality Spotlight

By Henry Cary

Taking the spotlight as the campus personality of the week is Louisiana's champion orator, Edmund M. Reggie, whose home is Crowley, "the rice city of America." Reggie graduated from St. Micheal's High School in

1943.   Upon graduation, he re-

ceived the American Legion Award and was awarded a scholarship to Southwestern. While in high school, Reggie lettered four years in basketball, he became an Eagle Scout with a silver palm, he participated in oratory, he was president of the Holy Name Society (a boy's organization), and he was vice-president of his graduating class.

Reggie enrolled at Southwestern in November of 1943 because, "my brother before me came here and had such a good time, that I wanted to see what it was about, and because Southwestern had such good opportunities." Well, Reggie did come to Southwestern, and he has really made a name for himself. As I said before, he is Louisiana's

champion orator. He also took fifth place in_the national oratorical contest. Reggie also has to his credit several other first places in extemporaneous speaking, radio speaking, and oratory, besides other honors in poetry reading, after dinner speaking, and debate. Edmund is a member of Pi Kappa Delta, national honorary forensic fraternity, and has had conferred upon him the degree of distinction, which is the highest obtainable degree in the fraternity. He is also the first freshman at Southwestern to receive this honor. . Reggie is also the top orator in Pi Kappa Delta's Pro-

EDMUND REGGIE vince of the "Lower Mississippi". He is a member of the Varsity Oratory Squad, of the Varsity Debate Squad, of the Drama Guild, he is Southwestern's sports reporter, is vice-president of Blue Key national honorary fraternity, is a pledge of Theta Kappa Phi national social fraternity, is a former reporter, and a member of the Boys' Club, and is secretary of the Acadia Parish Club.

Our champion orator has three pet likes; namely, "reading orations, reading poetry, and Harris Hall." His pet dislike is "my lovesick roommate demanding that I read romantic poetry to him before the break of dawn every morning."

Reggie is now a sophomore majoring in pre-law and speech in the College of Liberal Arts. After he graduates from Southwestern, he plans to "go to law school and then practice law."