Long Island University Announces Winners of Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest
b'BROOKVILLE, N.Y., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Roosevelt School at Long Island University (LIU), in partnership with the Theodore Roosevelt Association, announced today the winners of the annual Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest.
- b'BROOKVILLE, N.Y., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Roosevelt School at Long Island University (LIU), in partnership with the Theodore Roosevelt Association, announced today the winners of the annual Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest.
- "\n"All of the participants in the Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest should be proud that they challenged themselves to present their insight and creativity on a national stage,"said Long Island University President Kimberly R. Cline.
- "\nThe panel of four judges for the Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest included:\nTweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt,Professor at Long Island University, and Chairman of the Theodore Roosevelt Institute.\nHoward Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.\nAlice L. George, Vice President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.\nRobert Friedman, judge of the Theodore Roosevelt Association\'s NYC Public Speaking Contest since 1992.\nThe Theodore Roosevelt Association, headquartered in Oyster Bay, New York, is a national nonprofit and nonpartisan organization chartered by an act of Congress in 1920 to perpetuate the memory and ideals of America\'s 26th President.
- The Association also supports the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund for research grants at the American Museum of Natural History, and sponsors various programs that develop tomorrow\'s leaders.\nThe Theodore Roosevelt Institute, part of the Roosevelt School at Long Island University, serves as a home for research, public seminars, workshops, educational programs, and conferences about Roosevelt, his times, and contemporaries.