State Oratorical Contest - Meridian City Hall

MEMORANDUM
FROM: Department Adjutant
Department Oratorical Chairman Ken Andersen
SUBJECT: District and Area Oratorical Contest for 2027
TO: Post, District and Area Oratorical Chairmen
The following is the information needed to conduct your Oratorical contest. The information is for the Post, District, and Area Oratorical Chairmen. Please note that a packet of forms is attached to this memo.
GENERAL ORATORICAL INFORMATION
The Idaho Oratorical Contest is grouped into four basic GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS in Idaho.
They are divided as follows:
• Area One: Districts One and Two
• Area Two: Districts Three and Nine
• Area Three: Districts Four and Five
• Area Four: Districts Six, Seven and Eight
The winners from the above Areas will compete in the Department Contest. The Oratorical Areas have no correlation with Membership Areas A, B, and C. The District Chairman from the host District shall serve as the Area Contest Chairman.
TRAVEL EXPENSE FOR AREA AND STATE CONTESTS
State and Area Contest Travel and Lodging
1. Mileage will be paid for the Area winners to the State Contest.
2. Participants will be given $0.20 per mile round trip from the contestant’s home via the shortest route to the contest site.
3. One night’s hotel/motel accommodations will be arranged for the contestant on the night PRIOR to the state or Area contest (on approval by the Department Adjutant).
4. Minor contestants MUST be accompanied by an ADULT chaperone to the contests.
Costs of Post contests are to be borne by the Post. Costs of the District Contests are to be borne by the District. 
CONTEST DEADLINE DATES
Post Contest (local) ..................................Any time prior to the District Contest
District Contest.........................................Any time prior to January 31, 2027
Area Contest.............................................Any time prior to February 13, 2027
Department Contest..................................February 20, 2027, at Meridian City Hall, Meridian, ID
National Contest…………………………May 14-16, 2027, at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI
INTRA-SCHOOL CONTESTS
Whereas, there are many High Schools not represented by Legion Posts or have inactive Posts locally; now therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the Idaho Department of The American Legion in convention assembled at Burley, Idaho, July 12-14, 1974, that these schools be allowed to conduct their own Oratorical Contest to the prescribed regulations, as set by The American Legion, and, be it further
RESOLVED, that each High School is allowed to send a contestant to their District Oratorical Contest.
Contestants will be selected by procedures established by each high school in any manner determined suitable by the school. Report the names of the local contestants to the respective District Oratorical Chairman the day following the Local Contest. The local contestant's name must also be certified by a school official to the Adjutant, American Legion, Department of Idaho, 901 W. Warren St., Boise, Idaho 83706. Certification to be delivered to the Department of Idaho no later than February 12, 2027.
An American Legion Post May Not sponsor more than one contestant from the same school.