Everybody looks mostly settled. So welcome again here in the afternoon. My name is . Jarod rhodes. Im the speech and debate director for the Coolidge Foundation. Our program is an exciting. We give we provide opportunities for High Schoolers to, engage in speech and debate, and thereby learn and develop and practice the skills of oratory and rhetoric, civil engagement, research. You have to do a lot that in writing your own speeches as well. Of course, along the way we give them a big dose of coolidge material as well. And so they learn quite a bit about our 30th president as of our program. You might be how its structured. We have tournaments across the nation. Weve in idaho this year. Weve been in dallas in december, just came back north carolina. We have tournaments all all across the country and we qualify students essentially to the coolidge cup, which is our championship tournament that we hold each july in plymouth, vermont and in the coolidge historic site, we i know its been i
Everybody looks mostly settled. So welcome again here in the afternoon. My name is . Jarod rhodes. Im the speech and debate director for the Coolidge Foundation. Our program is an exciting. We give we provide opportunities for High Schoolers to, engage in speech and debate, and thereby learn and develop and practice the skills of oratory and rhetoric, civil engagement, research. You have to do a lot that in writing your own speeches as well. Of course, along the way we give them a big dose of coolidge material as well. And so they learn quite a bit about our 30th president as of our program. You might be how its structured. We have tournaments across the nation. Weve in idaho this year. Weve been in dallas in december, just came back north carolina. We have tournaments all all across the country and we qualify students essentially to the coolidge cup, which is our championship tournament that we hold each july in plymouth, vermont and in the coolidge historic site, we i know its been i
We are here in south dakotas black hills, Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge, which is a 1920s era building that was constructed several years before president coolidge made summer white house here in 1927. So president Calvin Coolidge and the first lady and Grace Coolidge stayed here for nearly three months from june. Through september 1927, while they were on vacation that summer, Calvin Coolidge took office in 1923 when he was vice president. Warren harding died and, so he served out the last little bit of warren term, and then he was elected to his own term in 1924. And so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculating would here, would he not run for another term in 1928 . And it was widely expected that he would. But he came here in 1927 because he was looking for place to kind of escape the oppressive summer in washington, d. C. , in the mosquitoes and bugs and attention of the white house coolidge had vetoed a farm bill and there was a f
For High Schoolers to, engage in speech and debate, and thereby learn and develop and practice the skills of oratory and rhetoric, civil engagement, research. You have to do a lot that in writing your own speeches as well. Of course, along the way we give them a big dose of coolidge material as well. And so they learn quite a bit about our 30th president as of our program. You might be how its structured. We have tournaments across the nation. Weve in idaho this year. Weve been in dallas in december, just came back north carolina. We have tournaments all all across the country and we qualify students essentially to the coolidge cup, which is our championship tournament that we hold each july in plymouth, vermont and in the coolidge historic site, we i know its been its been noted that we have our 1890 society here and we have about 17, only about 51, 1890 Society Members that ever been inducted. We had about a third of our all of inductees here at this conference today. Want to give a
Our program is an exciting. We give we provide opportunities for High Schoolers to, engage in speech and debate, and thereby learn and develop and practice the skills of oratory and rhetoric, civil engagement, research. You have to do a lot that in writing your own speeches as well. Of course, along the way we give them a big dose of coolidge material as well. And so they learn quite a bit about our 30th president as of our program. You might be how its structured. We have tournaments across the nation. Weve in idaho this year. Weve been in dallas in december, just came back north carolina. We have tournaments all all across the country and we qualify students essentially to the coolidge cup, which is our championship tournament that we hold each july in plymouth, vermont and in the coolidge historic site, we i know its been its been noted that we have our 1890 society here and we have about 17, only about 51, 1890 Society Members that ever been inducted. We had about a third of our al