DEBATERS PLAN NEW CHAPTER FOR ALUMNI

There'll be discourse a-plenty April 3 as former Southeast Missouri State University debaters meet to form an alumni chapter of Pi Kappa Delta and to honor two former presidents of the largest intercollegiate debate organization in the United States.

The festivities, which will include a dinner, will be held at 7 p.m. in the Missouriana Room of University Center.

Keynote speaker will be Jerry R. Jenkins, a 1960 graduate of the university, who is now a senior partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Barker & Daniels. Subsequent to earning his undergraduate degree here, Jenkins earned his advanced degree from Duke University, where he was a member of the Law Review.

Special honors will be paid the late Forrest H. Rose and Fred B. Goodwin. Both served as directors of debate at the university, and both, having served as national presidents of Pi Kappa Delta, were inducted into the Pi Kappa Delta national Debate Honorary's Hall of Fame at the 1993 national tournament and meeting March 20.

Southeast's Missouri Iota chapter of Pi Kappa Delta has the distinction of being the only one of the 250 chapters to have two members of the Hall of Fame, and the further distinction of being the only institution to have had three debate directors to have served as national president, the third being Thomas B. Harte, who is still a member of the faculty.

Harte will serve as master of ceremonies at the event, and Goodwin will present a video highlighting some of the history of forensics activities at the university, which extend almost to the institution's beginnings in 1873.