The National Forensic League is proud to announce that Diane Johnson from Bellwood-Antis High School has earned a first diamond.
Johnson attained a total of 1,715 points on February 17.
Coaches receive 1/10th of their students’ points. Under Johnson’s instructions, her students earned more than 17,150 credit points.
Coaches qualify for membership and advanced degrees according to the same schedule provided for students and must apply and pay a membership fee. Coaches who obtained membership as a student can request their points be added to their coaching record. One-tenth of the points earned will be transferred without application or fee.
On attaining a total of 1,599 points, coaches are entitled to wear a diamond-set National Forensic League key or pin; additional diamonds accrue at 3,000, 6,000, 10,000 and each 3,000 points thereafter. Minimum time for each diamond is five years as a Forensic League coach. Also, the degrees for three coaches within each chapter count towards district standings and tournament apportionment.
In June, Johnson will receive special recognition at the Lincoln Financial Group/NFL National Tournament. This year’s tournament will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 13-18 and will draw 2,700 students and 1,500 coaches, school administrators and parents. The National Speech Tournament has been held continuously since 1931 and has appeared on the approved list of the National Association of Secondary School Principals National Advisory List of Contests and Activities since origination of the list.
The National Forensic League is a non-partisan, not for profit educational honor society founded in 1925 by Bruno E. Jacobs at Ripon College, Ripon, Wisc. Its purpose is to encourage and motivate high school students to participate in and becoming proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation.
Since its founding, NFL has enrolled over 1,113,078 member in all 50 states, U.S. possessions and several foreign countries. Currently over 93,000 high school students and more than 3,500 high school teachers are active members.
The Bellwood-Antis Public Library has announced that Barbara Marinak was named the Artist of the Month for March.
Barbara resides in Antis Township, just outside Bellwood, with her husband Joe. She works at the Tyrone Hospital as a medical technologist, supervising the microbiology department.
She started needlework at the age of 10 when her mother taught her to do a simple cross-stitch sampler. After that came knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, needlepoint and crewel.
She said crewel is her favorite because of the variety of stitches, threads, yarns and textures involved. Most of her artwork takes several months to complete.
She also likes to crochet afghans, most of which have been given away as gifts. Both needlework and crocheting are her forms of relaxation and artistic expression.
