{"id":2010,"date":"2010-05-07T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/07\/winners-of-the-delta-state-spring-oratorical-contest-announced\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:56","slug":"winners-of-the-delta-state-spring-oratorical-contest-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/winners-of-the-delta-state-spring-oratorical-contest-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the Delta State spring Oratorical Contest announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/Swofford-Grose.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The winners of the spring Oratorical Contest at Delta State University are Samantha Swafford (at left), a freshman biology major of Cleveland, and Sharon Grose, a sophomore pre-nursing major of Cleveland. Swafford&rsquo;s presentation entitled &ldquo;Autism&rdquo; earned her 1<sup>st<\/sup> Place for Informative Speech. Grose&rsquo;s speech entitled &ldquo;Reality TV&rdquo; won her 1<sup>st<\/sup> Place for Persuasive Speech. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">First Place<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> winners received a $150.00 leadership scholarship and plaque; other presenters received a gift certificate from the bookstore and a certificate of achievement.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Judges for the contest were local attorneys John Cox, Helen Morris, and Chris Powell. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Lester Fisher, principal ofH. M. Nailor Elementary School,presented the keynote address at the contest.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The Oratorical Contest is sponsored by Communication Studies and Theatre Arts program and the Division of Languages and Literature at Delta State. This marked the six year anniversary of the Oratorical Contest at Delta State. The event was held in Jacob Conference Center of Ewing Hall on the campus.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The winners of the spring Oratorical Contest at Delta State University are Samantha Swafford (at left), a freshman biology major of Cleveland, and Sharon Grose,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41434,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/41434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}