Speech meet time of year

Last Friday Zane and Gunnar both earned high enough scores on their speeches to be among the 3 kids from their class to move on to the inter school speech meet in Spokane next week. Zane recited Proverbs 6:16-23, and Gunnar did Lou Gehrig's 1939 farewell address in Yankee Stadium. The boys also got blue ribbons for all A's first quarter.
Signe had her first secondary speech meet today, which involved about eighty 7th-9th graders. She delivered part of Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 "Man in the Arena" speech with such conviction that she was the only candidate chosen from the Historical Oration Category to perform it again in front of all the secondary students later in the day. It's quite special to be among only 7 kids chosen to recite their piece again, and she was pretty nervous as a petite 7th grader (the audience chuckled when they had to adjust the microphone down to her level) to stand in front of the big 12 graders. But she pulled it off great.