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1/9/2008 - Congratulations to the 2008 MSHSL Tournament Participants.
LD
Section 2
1st Place - Brian Ashburn (Brainerd)
2nd Place - Jenna Riley (Brainerd)
3rd Place - Kristen Dorumsgaard (St. Francis)
4th Place - Tiffany Rootes (St. Francis)
Section 3
1st Place - Courtney Erickson (Lakeville North)
2nd Place - Tyler Traub (Lakeville North)
3rd Place - Christain Keil (Lakeville South)
4th Place - Tim Jennings (Lakeville South)
Section 4
1st Place - Hannah Johnson (St. Paul Central)
2nd Place - Soren Duggan (Forest Lake)
3rd Place - Kathryn Haglin (Forest Lake)
4th Place - Jonathan Wald (St. Paul Academy)
Section 5
1st Place - Francesca Parente (Wayzata)
2nd Place - John Scoggin (Blake)
3rd Place - Zac Field (Coon Rapids)
4th Place - Dru Svoboda (Wayzata)
Section 6
1st Place - Dan Willey (Cooper)
2nd Place - David McNeil (Edina)
3rd Place - Erik Legried (Cooper)
4th Place - Conor Doherty (Hopkins)
Policy
Section 2
1st Place - Joe Skaggs Jr and Michelle Stanley (Moorhead)
2nd Place - Ashley mcVay and Seiko Shastri (Moorhead)
3rd Place - Tom Freeman and Luke Gruenhagen (Brainerd)
Section 3
1st Place - Danny Bernick and Bobby Ciborowski (
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10/7/2007 - The first weekend of the competitive debate season is in the books and it was a great turn out at tournaments at Jefferson High School and Mankato West High Schools.
Remember that packets will be available online by clicking the results tab. If you are you a tournament manager and want your packets to be available online make sure to send them to the MDTA.
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9/17/2007 - The MDTA just held its fall membership meeting. Did you miss the meeting or are just curious what took place. Take a look at the meeting minutes for a complete run down of events.
Or head on over to the documents page and download the minutes along with other important supporting documents from the fall meeting including:
Overview of new outreach efforts
2007-08 Section Realignment
2008-09 Section Realignment
and much more...
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8/18/2007 - Dear MDTA Members:
On behalf of the MDTA Committee, I am requesting nominations for this year's "Coach of the Year" and "Distinguished Service" awards.
Please send any nominations to me by response to this e-mail address sheilaelizabeth@hotmail.com no later than Friday, August 24th, 2007. I will thereafter submit the "Coach of the Year" nomination list to the general membership for a vote. The "Distinguished Service" nomination list will be considered by the MDTA Committee.
Best,
Sheila Peterson
Director of Debate at Highland Park Senior High, MN
Section 4 Representative
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8/15/2007 - During our September meeting we will be discussing a change to the current MDTA Constitution in regards to our organization that relate to the MDTA application for tax-exempt status.
Per our current bylaws it is necessary to publish this information two-weeks prior to any meeting.
The proposed Constitutional changes can be downloaded here.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Chris McDonald or Cort Sylvester and we look forward to seeing everyone in September.
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8/15/2007 - Here are the 2007-08 MDTA Novice Case Limits
1. Eliminate one or more of the following funding restrictions in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS (PEPFAR):
- Abstinence promotion
- Needle exchange
- Sex workers (loyalty oath)
- Treatment vs. prevention requirement
2. Increase funding for the training and retention of public health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
3. Increase assistance for clean water and water sanitation programs
4.Increase assistance for the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)
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8/8/2007 - The annual novice case limits meeting is once again going to be at Gail Sarff's house on August 14th and 5:00 P.M.
Her address is 2605 Cherrywood Road, Hopkins, MN 55305. Her Cell Phone Number is 612-916-9101.
Anybody that is interested in giving their input or wants to listen to the discussions can come.
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7/13/2007 - Attention Members of the Minnesota Debate Teachers Association
Please mark your calendars for our fall membership meeting on Saturday September 8th at Eagan High School from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. If you cannot make it to this meeting there will be a second meeting the following Saturday September 15th at the CTAM Convention in Rochester, Minnesota. We are holding two fall meetings in order to optimize our membership participation on several key issues which we feel are very important and of interest to all members of the MDTA.
Preliminary Meeting Agenda
Presentation of our outreach efforts to increase membership and participation in high school debate activities.
Discussion of our foundation funds and the actions that the executive committee are taking to protect and grow our funds so that they can be used to promote and grow debate in Minnesota.
Discussion of all MSHSL rules for running the state debate tournament (any changes we wish to make must be presented on September 17th to the league when the Debate Advisory Group meets with league officials).
Re-Sectioning for Policy and LD debate.
Public Forum: Where is the event at and where
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6/8/2007 - Gail Sarff’s career began as a high school head speech and debate coach after graduation from the University of Iowa in 1970. Her teams there succeeded well, taking state championships and earning trips to national competitions in debate and dramatic interpretation.
Iowa’s loss became Minnesota’s gain, when, in 1979, Sarff started the awards-winning Wayzata debate program that became the largest in the state. Her debaters earned national distinctions throughout the years, such as bids to the Tournament of Champions in Kentucky and the National Forensic League nationals in Texas.
With the debate program flourishing, Sarff urged Wayzata to start a speech team. Under Sarff’s coaching, that beginning endeavor produced a star student who attended NFL nationals three times, leading the way to Wayzata’s subsequent success in speech competitions.
Sarff serves in leadership positions in her professional organizations and is a highly sought after conference presenter and summer workshop instructor. She’s a triple diamond National Forensic League coach, and has received innumerable coaching awards, including Debate Coach of the Year, an honor that comes from votes of fellow debate coaches. She’s also the recipient of the James Graupner Distinguished Service Award, the 2006 Outstanding Individual in Communication and Theater Award,
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6/8/2007 - Del Holz joined the staff at Bloomington Jefferson High as speech coach in 1970 when the school opened. He wrote, developed, and taught courses for Jefferson’s Speech & Debate classes from 1970 to 1999.
Numbers of Holz’s students competed in the National Forensic League competitions, eight times advancing to semifinals, three times to finals. They earned dozens of state medals and claimed Minnesota state championships 13 times.
His students also participated in the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Voice of Democracy speech competitions, producing eight state finalists, four state champions, and one second place at national.
For over 20 years Holz hosted an invitational speech tournament at Jefferson on the first Saturday in February. He served as chair of Section 6AA speech from 1975-1999; as Minnesota State High School League Speech Representative for 24 years; and as a member of the League’s Fine Arts Advisory Board and the Lincoln Douglas Rules and Procedures Committee. He’s been a member of the Minnesota Debate Teachers Association Ethics Committee and the Speech Association of Minnesota Board of Governors.
Holz has several “firsts” to his credit, starting with the use of computer programs. He guided the development of “Soft Speech” by John Morto
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4/3/2007 - Balloting for the 2008 MSHSL State Tournament is now underway. Ballots must be recieved by April 16th. Instructions and ballot are available below.
1. Each debate program that actively participates in either Policy or LD debate is allowed 1 vote for state debate judges in the activities that they actively compete in at section tournaments. That means that if you do Policy only then you only cast votes for Policy judges and if you do LD only you only cast votes for LD judges. If your school does both formats of debate then you can vote for both sets of judges.
2. Your votes are a little different this year than in past years. We will be using an A, B, C system of ranking judges, with A being your most preferred judges, B being your next level of preferred judges and C being your least preferred judges. You can mark up to 15 judges as A's, 10 judges as B's and the rest C's.
3. Please send you completed ballots to Bob Ihrig at Mankato West High School no later than Monday April 16th. Bob's e-mail address is: bihrig1@isd77.k12.mn.us and his fax number at Mankato Wes
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3/1/2007 - Welcome to the new MDTA web site. We are excited to get a new and modern system to better support our members of the MDTA. The new site has many new features along with some old ones.
On the right side you will find updated membership tools including an online membership directory with complete information for all MDTA members. In addition, you now have the power to keep your information up to date on the web site by clicking on the My Information link to the right after you have logged in.
If you have a suggestion of something you would like to see on our site, feel free to contact either DJ or Andy.
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