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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.