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
The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic
The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic
The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic