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October 10, 2011<br />

wingspan.lccc.wy.edu<br />

campus news<br />

<strong>Wingspan</strong> 9<br />

By Cody D.<br />

Medrano<br />

Features Editor<br />

Since the beginning<br />

of the academic<br />

year, Laramie County<br />

Community College’s<br />

speech and debate<br />

team has been preparing<br />

for its year of<br />

competition.<br />

The first meet is<br />

coming up soon in<br />

Casper, so the team<br />

has been hard at<br />

work preparing their<br />

own speeches and for<br />

the debates.<br />

The speech and<br />

debate team, led by<br />

instructor and coach<br />

Dave Gaer, has been<br />

nationally recognized<br />

for the nine years. He<br />

has coached the team<br />

both in team and individual<br />

events as well<br />

as having two national<br />

champions on the<br />

team in the past five<br />

years.<br />

“All of our students<br />

tend to place<br />

high because they<br />

work hard,” Gaer had<br />

said.<br />

This hard work<br />

translated into a<br />

first-place win for<br />

the LCCC speech and<br />

debate team at the JV<br />

National Tournament<br />

last season.<br />

This year might<br />

be a new start for the<br />

speech and debate<br />

team because they<br />

have only two returning<br />

members. This<br />

can bring an exciting<br />

chapter to the team<br />

with new blood and<br />

teammates of other<br />

backgrounds.<br />

Of course, the<br />

new members don’t<br />

stop with the team<br />

members themselves.<br />

There is also a new<br />

coach in new fulltime<br />

faculty member<br />

in communication,<br />

Holly Manning,<br />

whom Gaer has<br />

known for a number<br />

of years and sees as<br />

an asset for the team.<br />

Gaer said how he<br />

knew the new team<br />

members will have<br />

trouble transitioning<br />

from their high<br />

school background to<br />

a college level. “We’re<br />

much more open<br />

and able to present<br />

literature or speeches<br />

that are actually socially<br />

relevant, or that<br />

The Baptist Collegiate Ministry, a student<br />

organization at Laramie County Community<br />

College, presents its seventh annual Harvest<br />

Fest on Oct. 31 in the Center for Conferences<br />

and Institutes from 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.<br />

There will be carnival games, cotton candy,<br />

free photos, a cake walk, lots of candy and<br />

toys. The event is free to the public.<br />

The Harvest Fest has always relied on<br />

volunteers to run the event, and in the past,<br />

might be a little bit<br />

more adult in nature,”<br />

he said. “So they are<br />

actually discovering<br />

things about the world<br />

through debate and<br />

through their speeches<br />

that they might not<br />

have thought about<br />

before.”<br />

Gaer explained<br />

that the transition is<br />

really a good point of<br />

commencement for<br />

the new members.<br />

“They also have to<br />

Careyanne Johnson<br />

Fresh faces follow first-place finishers:<br />

Coach Dave Gaer, left, instructs Molly Steffen, A.J. Romsa and Paige Russell at a speech and debate team practice.<br />

Young team prepares for year’s competition<br />

keep on top of current<br />

events, and I<br />

think that’s been a<br />

tough one for them,”<br />

Gaer added. “But I<br />

think that’s an asset<br />

for them in their<br />

other classes.”<br />

Those interested<br />

in joining the speech<br />

and debate team<br />

should contact Gaer<br />

at 307-778-1161 or<br />

Manning at 307-778-<br />

1238.<br />

Baptists prep for Harvest Fest<br />

student clubs from LCCC and local churches<br />

have been able to help. This year, however,<br />

the Ministry needs more volunteers. The<br />

volunteers will meet at 4 p.m., then will help<br />

with the setup, run the games, serve cotton<br />

candy, and take down the event.<br />

For more information, or if you or your<br />

organization would like to volunteer for this<br />

event, contact Aaron Bell at 307-421-8093 or<br />

aaron@bcmcheyenne.org.

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