Macfarlan wins 1st place in California
Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008
Sixteen-year-old Ginger Macfarlan has brought home national honors to Arkansas. Macfarlan placed first in the Sons of the American Revolution Oratorical Contest last weekend in Sacramento, Calif.
The finish added $ 3, 000 to her college savings account.
The Sons of the American Revolution began the oratorical contest in 1945.
Its purposes are to bring American History to the high school student and focus on events of today, to draw an intelligent relationship between the past and the present, to clearly demonstrate freedom of opportunity as a basic right of our national heritage, to place a positive emphasis on the plans of our founding fathers, to emphasize justice under law in the free society and to illustrate how the Revolutionary War influenced our freedom of expression.
Participants must prepare and deliver from memory a speech pertaining to an event, personality or document relating to the Revolutionary War and show a relationship to America today.
Macfarlan chose the Boston Tea Party for her speech titled," Saltwater Tea."
Preliminary rounds of the contest are held in SAR chapters.
Chapter winners compete at the state level and then each state sends their winner to the National event.
Macfarlan represented the General Lafayette chapter of Fayetteville and then won the state contest in March.
She is home educated and is the daughter of Kevin and Laura Macfarlan of Siloam Springs.
She is president of the Christian Home Educators of Siloam Springs home school high school group, is active in the First Baptist Church Revolution Student Ministry and volunteers at the Manna Center.
Earlier this year, she placed second in the 2008 National American Legion Oratorical Contest.
This summer she will represent Arkansas at the American Legion Girl's Nation and also at the NRA Youth Education Summit. She is the author of a weekly column in the Siloam Springs Herald-Leader, A Little Spice from Ginger.
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