Subject:  American Legion Post 126 High School Oratorical Scholarship Program 2024-2025

 

 

1. The Executive Committee of American Legion Post 126 has approved a local monetary scholarship for students who participate in the American Legion’s Oratorical Contest for 2024-2025.

 

1. Specifics are outlined below:

 

1. Post 126’s scholarship for this contest year will be $500 plus additional travel expenses as required by the Contest.

2. In order to receive this award, the student must:

   1. Prepare an Oration in accordance with the Program Rules for 2025, published separately. 

   2. The Contestant must give his or her prepared oration to a panel of judges from Post 126 and Perquimans County High School.

   3. The Contestant must also respond to an assigned topic discourse from the panel of judges, as also outlined in the Program Rules for 2025.

3. If there is only a single Contestant then he or she will be awarded the scholarship provided the above three requirements are satisfactorily met as agreed upon by a simple majority vote of the panel of judges. 

4. The Post 126 winner, or single applicant if that be the case, will have an opportunity, if recommended by the panel of judges, to compete at the American Legion Division 1 level, March 1, 2025, held in Roanoke Rapids, in order to receive an additional $500 added to the scholarship.  The applicant does not need to win at the Division level in order to receive the scholarship.

 

 

 

Gary Kollmann

Adjutant, American Legion Post-126

Post Contest Chairman