The meeting was called to order by president elect, Chris Stoll. Guests were recognized and included our 4 Way Test Speech Contest contestants, Rose Morrison and Sydney Shufford from Norton HS along with their coach Tricia Pletcher. Chris reminded club members of the upcoming board meeting on Tuesday, Mar 13 with the golf committee meeting too. Shelly shared the scholastic committee met after last weeks meeting and chose the recipient of the Academic Scholarship for BHS as well as the Gavin Westover Scholarship. The selection date needed to be moved up due to BHS schedule.
She also shared that the winner of the contest will be invited to attend the District 6630 Contest.April 7, 2018 Aurora High School in Aurora, OH 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM 7 Prizes at the District level will be*: 1st place: $1200.00 2nd place: $900.00 3rd place: $700.00 Honorable Mentions: $200.00.
Rose spoke about sign language. She used the 4 Way Test to show how the lack of familiarity, despite the portion of the population affect by hearing loss, is not only unfair but costing innocent lives.
Sydney spoke about learning from the past and used the 4 Way Test to show how our failure to learn from the mistakes of the past is not only unfair but is costing innocent lives.
Both were excellent speeches. The first place and runner up received prizes and Tricia also received a prize for NHS for participating. Sydney was our winner and Rose was runner up.