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Happy Birthday, Josh, Nadia, and Amanda!
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community, Featured categoryLEXINGTON, Ky. — June 27 is a special day for the Victory Briefs family because it is the birthday for three of our staff members: Josh Anderson, Nadia Arid, and Amanda Signorelli!
All three are passionately dedicated to the activity in which we participate and all three are incredibly kind and friendly folks. Please join [...]
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New York Family Magazine Profiles Will Baker
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community categoryNEW YORK, N.Y. — The most recent issue of New York Family has a feature on “Dads We Love,” in which the magazine profiles “dads [that remind] us that there are endless ways to improve family life in the city.” Among the featured fathers is Will Baker, director of the IMPACT Coalition, a long-standing non-profit [...]
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Awesome Awards
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community categoryNEW YORK, N.Y. — Juli Tarsney pointed me today to an article by Steven Heller about trophy design. The article, entitled “And the Trophy for the Most Generic Trophy Goes To…,” was published on The Moment, a fashion and design blog run by the New York Times. You can access the article by clicking [...]
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Ending the Year
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community categoryNEW YORK, N.Y. — A speech and debate program is more than a simple team; in many ways, it’s a surrogate family. Few events, then, are more emotional than the end of a season: seeing off the seniors, celebrating achievements, reflecting on experiences, looking ahead to a new year.
Many programs end the season with [...]
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Spreading on Capitol Hill?
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community categoryWASHINGTON, D.C. — Douglas Wilder, a professional speed reader, was asked by House Democrats today to expedite the reading of a 900-page climate change bill following a ranking Republican’s threat to use the reading as a means of delaying the passage of the legislation.
“He spoke so quickly,” claimed CNN, “it was impossible to decipher [...]
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In Memoriam: Sandra Davis
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Obituaries categoryFRANKLIN, Tenn. — Sandra Davis, long-time director of the speech and debate program at Battle Ground Academy, passed away this past Saturday after an extended illness.
Davis was a major force in forensics; she was elected a Key Coach of the Barkley Forum for High Schools in 1997 and attained two diamonds in the National [...]
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Past ACLU President Strossen Praises Hopkins Debate
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community categoryMINNETONKA, Minn. — Nadine Strossen, professor at New York University and past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, was recently interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio prior to giving a lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School. Over the course of the interview, Strossen — a former two-time state champion from Hopkins High School [...]
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