Let the Contests Continue!
Josh Gravley didn't just represent us well. Henderson County has never even been represented before at so high a level as the District (state) level; that's not for for the Humorous Speech or the Table Topic Speech. Only Tucker Cox made it to District in the Evaluation Contest some time after 2010 and Moose Penfold from the "old" New Dimensions sister club made it in 2014 in the International Speech Contest. Josh's journey began only two weeks after his Ice Breaker speech when he accepted the invitation to compete and got first out of five contestants in our local contest of September 20th. From there it was first place in the area in mid-October and then a round-robin back at our club to help propel him through the division on November 9th. This statewide audience of December 13th was quite massive in comparison, going from only about 40 members in the area and division to well over 200. Josh's competition in the district were mainly f...