Debate team, identified
Abstract
Description
Black and white photograph shows a group portrait of eight men members of debate team. All wear suits with neck scarfs or bow ties. Six men are seated in front and two men are standing in back. Men in the first row have their hands on the tables, some holding pens or pencils, and one holding a gavel.
The back of the photograph reads "[Phi] Chas. E. Brewer (86), 2nd [debater]; [Gamma] J. L. White (85), 1st; [Gamma] A. T. Roberson (85), orator, back row second man; [Gamma] A. T. Hord (85), pres.; [Phi] H. B. Conrad (85), sec.; [Phi] Everett Ward (85), orator; [Phi] J. B. Pruitt (85), 1st [debater]; [Gamma] W. C. Allen (85), 2nd." Another note reads, "Debate team, October 1885?" Hord is the student holding the gavel.