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Forensic League... Training Youth for Leadership Since its founding, the NFL has enrolled over 1,150,474 members in all fifty states, U. S. possessions and several foreign countries. Currently over 93,000 high school students and over 3500 high school teachers are active members. Prominent NFL alumni include President Lyndon Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Richard Lugar and William Frist, media visionary Ted Turner, Academy Award winners Patricia Neal and Don Ameche, Emmy award winners Kelsey Grammar and Shelly Long, radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, television host Oprah Winfrey, news anchor Jane Pauley, CSPAN founder Brian Lamb, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, University President David Boren, Federal National Mortgage CEO Franklin Delano Raines. Contests are held in Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Legislative Debate, Public Forum (Ted Turner) Debate, United States Extemporaneous Speaking, International Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Commentary, Impromptu Speaking, Prose Reading, Poetry Reading, Expository Speaking and Storytelling. Over $130,000 in college scholarships are awarded. The contest for 2005 will be held at Philadelphia, PA, June 12-17, and will draw 2700 students and 1500 coaches, school administrators and parents. East Carteret High School is one of the strongest members of the Tarheel Forensics League and was chartered in 1999. ECHS stands head and shoulders above schools of significantly larger population as a leader in the TFL. For more information on joining NFL click here. |
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