Oratorical Contest
04/04/2024
Several students will present their speeches for the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest
empowering Voices for peace
小优传媒 will hold its annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest at
7 p.m. on April 10 in Yoder Recital Hall.
Students selected to participate will prepare an oration, no more than ten minutes
in length, that applies a peace-church perspective to an issue of contemporary concern.
Participating students and their speeches include:
- Zachariah Boch 鈥24, Lancaster, Ohio, 鈥淒econstructing the Bully: Giving Power to Take Away Power鈥
- Micah Dodson 鈥27, Wooster, Ohio, 鈥淢aking Peace in a World of Poverty鈥
- Jenia Freewalt 鈥24, Delphos, Ohio, 鈥淗elping Students Make Peace With Themselves鈥
- Jenna Juarez 鈥25, Fremont, Ohio, 鈥淧romoting Peace in Skilled Nursing Facilities鈥
- Kennedy Parker 鈥25, Lima, Ohio, 鈥淭he Mental Health of College Athletes鈥
- Carter Ritchey 鈥25, Delphos, Ohio, 鈥淭he Peace of the Binary Body鈥
The student who is awarded first prize will receive $500. The second and third prize speakers will receive $400 and $200, respectively. Prizes have been substantially increased in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the contest.
The first prize winner will advance to compete with winning students from other North American Mennonite colleges. The bi-national competition awards additional monetary prizes for the top three competitors.
The contest is named in honor of C. Henry Smith, an early 20th-century Mennonite historian and a professor at Bluffton as well as at Goshen College. This event is free and open to the public.