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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff8000>Siarlys,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff8000>They told everybody in the top ten to prepare for being either valedictorian or salutatorian (both of whom talk at graduation) to prepare a short speech. So, no, it wasn't extemporaneous.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff8000>Layne</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/24/2004 11:57:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Layne, its OK to mention being valedictorian, and its OK to celebrate it,<BR>and really, we're all (I think all) happy to hear about it. You write<BR>well, and you will go far in all three fields you plan to enter. What I<BR>can't figure out is, if you just found out during the graduation<BR>ceremony, was your valedictory speech entirely extemporaneous? That can<BR>be a fun category of forensics competition, but its really something to<BR>come up with a subject and speak on it in the middle of graduation.<BR><BR>Siarlys<BR><BR>P.S. I just celebrated a friend of mine getting her bachelor of science<BR>in nursing, many years after she first got her RN.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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