{"id":2012,"date":"2010-05-07T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/07\/winners-of-the-delta-state-spring-oratorical-contest-announced-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:56","slug":"winners-of-the-delta-state-spring-oratorical-contest-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/05\/winners-of-the-delta-state-spring-oratorical-contest-announced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the Delta State spring Oratorical Contest announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"800\" cellpadding=\"4\" border=\"0\" id=\"table1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/Swofford-Grose.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><!--p.MsoPlainText\t{margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tfont-size:10.5pt;\tfont-family:Consolas;\tmargin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in}-->            <title><\/title>            <!-- p.MsoNormal\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tfont-size:11.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\";\tmargin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in}-->            <title><\/title>            <!-- p.MsoNormal\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\tmargin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in}-->            <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">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><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">First  Place winners received a $150 leadership scholarship and plaque; other  presenters received a gift certificate from the bookstore and a certificate of  achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\"> Judges for the contest were local attorneys John Cox, Helen Morris, and Chris  Powell. Lester Fisher, principal of<b> <\/b>H. M. Nailor Elementary School,<b> <\/b>presented the keynote address at the contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">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><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&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, a sophomore pre-nursing&#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-2012","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\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41435,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/41435"}],"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=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}