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Oral Interp Performers Qualify for State

November 14, 2018 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Two oral interp participants have earned themselves a chance to perform at the 2018 State Oral Interp Festival. Brooke-Lynn Hawthorne of Dell Rapids and Aubry Hansen from Dell Rapids St Mary both qualified from their respective regions.

Hawthorne qualified for her storytelling piece that was performed at the Class A Region III meet on Monday, November 12th at Brookings. Dell Rapids also had a few students earn alternate spots. They include Tim Jaycox in humor, Ella Lueders in serious, Jaycox and Emily Dorn in duet acting, and the reader’s theater team of Kat Fletcher, Peyton Gleason, Jaycox, Lueders, and Krystal Stange.

Hansen advanced to the regions in the serious reading category after her district performance on Wednesday, November 7th in Madison. Hansen’s performance at the regional meet on Tuesday, November 13th in Sioux Falls earned her a trip to the state competition. Thomas Eining advanced through the district meet to the regions, but fell just short of qualifying for state.

The 2018 South Dakota State Oral Interp Festival will be held on Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st at the Lake Area Technical Institue and Watertown High School. Hawthorne’s storytelling category will start at 6:00 p.m. Friday at Lake Area Technical Institute. Hansen’s serious reading category will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Watertown High School.

Dell Rapids Oral Interp Team Performs Well at State

December 7, 2015 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The Dell Rapids Oral Interp team performed well at the 2015 State Oral Interp Festival held in Sturgis on Friday, December 4th, and Saturday December 5th.

Kendra Drew earned three superior ratings over the weekend. Drew received superiors on her drama and humorous pieces. She was also a member of the Dell Rapids Reader’s Theater group that earned a straight superior rating. Other members of the Reader’s Theater group along with Drew were Morgan Nemmers, Isabelal Tesnow, Trey Randel, Maggie Moore, and Brooke Hawthorne. Dell Rapids was one of only three schools to earn a straight superior rating in Reader’s Theater.

Drew’s three superior ratings at a state event are the best that a participant can do at the state festival.

Oral Interp Meet Success for Dell Rapids

December 9, 2013 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The Dell Rapids team earned a team Excellence Award in Class A at the 2013 State Oral Interpretation meet in Watertown on December 6th and 7th. Taiven Logan earned a Superior rating for her Serious Plays piece titled “Live to Tell”. Kendra Drew also earned a Superior Rating for her Humorous piece titled “And Thy Name Shall Be…Something”.

103rd Annual State Oral Interpretation Festival

November 29, 2012 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The first State Declamation Contest was held in 1910 as part of that year’s State High School Track and Field Meet. In 1911, the first state-wide Declamation Contest was held independent of the State Track Meet. From those modest beginnings 100 years ago those early declamation contests have evolved into the modern State Oral Interpretation Festival of today. This year students from 82 South Dakota high schools will compete in the 103^rd Annual SDHSAA State Oral Interpretation Festival on Friday and Saturday November 30 and December 1 in Yankton at the Yankton High School.

This year’s State Interpretation Festival competitors have qualified for the Festival through a combination local school, district and regional competitions. The Festival will feature a combined total of 286 Class “AA”, Class “A” and Class “B” entries. The Class “B” State Oral Festival competitors were determined by advancing from one of the ten district contests to a Class “B” regional contests and advancing from their region contest to the State Festival. The Class “A” State Festival competitors qualified for the State Festival after advancing from one of five Class “A” regional contests. Class “AA” contestants have advanced to the State Festival as a result of intraschool competition in their own schools. The 2012 State Oral Interpretation Festival will showcase competitive performances by 91 entries from 13 Class “AA” schools, 90 entries from 27 Class “A” schools and 105 entries from 42 Class “B” schools.

The State Oral Interpretation Festival, sponsored by the South Dakota High School Activities Association, brings together South Dakota’s best high school oral interpretation speakers in a “festival” setting. During the State Festival the students will compete to achieve a “Superior” rating which is the equivalent of a state championship in their contest event. State Oral Interpretation Festival competition is divided into seven contest events: Non-Original Oratory, Interpretation of Serious Plays, Interpretation of Serious Prose, Poetry Reading, Humorous Reading, Duet Interpretation, and Readers Theatre.

The State Oral Interpretation Festival competition will begin on Friday morning, November 30^th at 10:00. The Festival’s second and third sessions will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon and at 7:00 Friday evening respectively The Festival will conclude with two sessions at 9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday December 1^st. The awards for each session’s competition will be announced at the conclusion of the session. “Team Excellence” awards, recognizing the high schools whose over all entries excelled during the State Festival, will be presented at the conclusion of competition on Saturday afternoon.

Freshman Kendra Drew will be representing Dell Rapids High School. After the region tournament held on November 19th at SDSU, Kendra qualified in the category of Humorous Interpretation. Drew’s piece is entitled “The Plane Truth” by Ellen DeGenres. She has performed at numerous tournaments throughout the fall season and has consistently received positive feedback from judges.

Junior Taiven Logan will also be attending the festival this weekend. Taiven earned an alternate position for her performance in the serious plays category.

Congratulations to both of these DRHS students!