Berry student wins prestigious oratory contest
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Hope Stallings
Hope Stallings
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Berry College student Hope Stallings won first place in the Interstate Oratory Contest held recently at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Also representing Berry at the event was Amanda Dean.

Stallings’ speech was on deferred prosecution agreements. Her final round competition spoke about drug courts, reforming international food aid, same-sex sexual harassment, gender segregation in education and ending sexual orientation discrimination in blood donation.

In addition to being awarded the national championship plaque, Stallings also was honored by The Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation as the first recipient of the “L.Q.C. Lamar Award of Distinction.” Lamar was a distinguished Mississippi statesman who was featured in President Kennedy’s “Profiles in Courage.”

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