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Website Updated:  December  5th, 2011 , General info.
From Mr. Wexler's December  4th email


I.  Holiday Party - Date Change!
NEW DATE: Tuesday, December 20th, 6PM - 8PM in NHS Cafeteria
RSVP to NeedhamSpeechDebate@gmail.com

What to bring :

Last Name Begins with A- J: a dessert

Last Name Begins with K - R:  main dish

Last Name Begins with S - Z:  a salad

Everyone bring a six-pack of soda, diet soda or bottled water

Families and Alumni are welcome to join!

II.  Practice this week and December Events

Practice this week- Tuesday Evening Interp, VLD  
Wednesday Extemp/Congress/OO

Lincoln-Sudbury signups are due by Tuesday evening. Please sign up earlier if possible.

Please note for the Holly (at Natick December 17th) signups are BEFORE practice on Tuesday December 13th. So you must sign up by after school Tuesday that week.  
 
December Events-

Lincoln-Sudbury 12-10 (speech and PF)
Holly 12-17 at Natick (ALL encouraged to attend)-----People interested in Pentathing, please speak to me. Note there is no extemp kiddle lit this year, it has been replaced by 'storytelling'.

Scheduling- We encourage ALL to go to the HOLLY! We will need oodles of judges for this tournament, 12 or 14, so please let Ms. Gerber and Ms. Chamoun know if you can judge on December 17th  For those of you who may wish to compete, this tournament ALSO has original poetry, open to students AND non-students alike.

III.  National Quals are Early

We are taking signups for January contests. Please remember that NFL national quals are EARLY this year!

NFL quals in Congress are January 28th at Revere (there is also a regular contest that day at Revere)
NFL National Quals (all else) are Feb 3-4 at Manchester
CFL National Quals are Feb 11th at Shrewsbury


IV.  January Contests

Jan 7th- Newton South(speech, PF)
Jan 13-14 Big Lex (debate)
Collumbia Jan 20-22 (limited- see me for details)

V.  Press Release

Congratulations to George Chamoun who is currently in semifinals in extemp at Princeton. Press release to follow at completon of tournament.