Danville High School wonthe Kentucky EducationalSpeech and Drama Associa-tion’s State Speech Tourna-ment for the second straightyear this past weekend.
e open state tournamentis a precursor to the KentuckyHigh School Speech LeagueState Speech tournamentheld in March and is thelargest speech event held inKentucky each year.
Danville took first with 623points, followed by BooneCounty with 530 and RowanCounty with 507; LaRueCounty, Harrison County,Lexington Dunbar, CallowayCounty, Kentucky CountryDay, Ryle, and Hazard filledout the rest of the top 10.
Danville took home fourchampionships out of 15events. Senior Nate Johnsontook first in student congressand extemporaneous speak-ing; the group interpretationhe directed also took first(enacted by Johnson, SamNelson, Jack Graham, andWright Williams). Addition-ally, senior Drew Lane won
first in humorous interpreta-tion. DHS placed 28 entriesinto the final rounds (the topsix in each event advance tothe final rounds) andbrought home 61 awardsoverall from the contest.
Students participating infive events (with at least onepublic speaking, one inter-pretation, and one limitedpreparation event) com-peted in the pentathlon con-test for best overallcompetitor in the tourna-ment. Nate Johnson placedsecond, Sam Nelson placedsixth and Drew Lane placedninth in the John EdwardsPentathlon contest.
Listed here are Danville’saward winners at the tourna-ment by event. Students inthe semifinals placed in thetop 12 but not the top six;students in the quarterfinalsadvanced from preliminaryrounds to the top 24 but didnot make the top 12.
Broadcasting: Dylan Crow, Tay-lor Hesselbach and Tyler White-house, quarterfinalists.
Declamation: Cloe Andersonand Madeline Salinas, semifinalists.
Dramatic interpretation: Sara-beth Marlowe, fifth Place; DrewLane and John Thompson, semifi-nalists.
Duo interpretation: Jack Gra-ham/Tyler Whitehouse, secondplace; Sarabeth Marlowe/JohnThompson, fourth place; Molly An-derson/Mary Thompson and Is-abelle Ballard/Dylan Crow,semifinalists.
Expository speaking: Sam Nel-son, second place; Meagan Smith,outstanding novice.
Extemporaneous speaking: NateJohnson, champion; Jono Beto, sec-ond place; Joe Weston, fifth place;Andrew McKinney and Calvin Ste-ber, semifinalists.
Group interpretation: Jack Gra-ham, Nate Johnson, Sam Nelsonand Wright Williams, champions;Emma Jackson, Drew Lane, Sara-beth Marlowe, John Thompson andKolton Winfield, second place.
Humorous interpretation: DrewLane, champion; Jack Graham, sec-ond place; Waylon Duff, sixth place.
Impromptu speaking: Jono Betoand Nate Johnson semifinalists;Dylan Mullins and Joe Weston,
quarterfinalists.Improvisational pairs: Waylon
Duff/Kolton Winfield, second place;John Thompson/Wright Williams,third place; Dylan Crow/Nate John-son, fourth place; IsabelleBallard/Joe Weston, Mary-ScottBugg/Haley McCowan and JackGraham/Sam Nelson, quarterfinal-ists.
Oratory: Nate Johnson, fifth
place; Andrew McKinney andMadeline Salinas semifinalists.
Poetry: Isabelle Ballard, secondplace; Dylan Mullins and LaurelPayne, semifinalists; John Thomp-son, quarterfinalist; Tanisha Bruceand Kayla Foushee, tied for out-standing novice.
Prose: Dylan Crow, third place;Sam Nelson, fifth place; IsabelleBallard, sixth place; Laurel Payne
and John Thompson, semifinalists;Taylor Hesselbach, quarterfinalist.
Storytelling: Waylon Duff, thirdplace; Wright Williams, fifth place;Laurel Payne, sixth place; MeaganSmith, outstanding novice.
Student congress: Nate Johnson,Champion; Joe Weston, secondplace; Jono Beto, fourth place;Calvin Steber, fifth place; AndrewMcKinney, sixth place.
OBITUARIES
Jere McCumberJere John McCumber, 76,
of Stanford died Sunday,Feb. 19, 2012.
Born in Little Falls, N.Y.,he was the son of the lateGeorge and Anna Mae Brit-ton McCumber. Jere servedin the U.S. Navy for 10 yearsaboard the U.S.S. Inde-pendence off the coast ofVietnam and the U.S.S. For-rester and Saratoga as an aircrewman, flying A3D's. Hisservice in the Army Reservefor 19 years found him onactive duty several times,mostly recent during DesertStorm where he receivedthe Bronze Star. He was aformer police officer in San-ford, Fla., and Little Falls,N.Y., and a member of theFlorida Highway Patrol. Hegraduated from Little FallsHigh School and attendedcollege while in the service.Jere raced stock cars, fished,hunted and loved to snow-mobile. He was prede-ceased by a son, JamesMcCumber; two brothers,Roger and Robert; and asister, Betty Lou Deluca.
Survivors include hiswife, Barbara McCumber;two daughters, KathyMosher-Jackson and Laura(Robert) Yerina, both of Lit-tle Falls, N.Y.; two sons,George (Donna) McCum-ber of Toms River, N.J., andBill McCumber of Dol-geville, N.Y.; three stepsons,Tony (Caroline) Roberts ofBloomfield, Mich., MichaelRoberts of Dallas, Texas,and Christopher (Kristin)Roberts of FarmingtonHills, Mich.; a brother,Charles McCumber of LittleFall; 17 grandchildren; andtwo great-grandchildren.
e funeral service willbe 11 a.m. Friday at StithFuneral Home. e Rev.
Larry Hale will officiate.Burial will be in Camp Nel-son National Cemetery withmilitary rites provided bythe American Legion andthe U.S. Army.
e family requests me-morials be sent to HeritageHospice or Ephraim Mc-Dowell Health Foundation.
Stith Funeral Home pro-vides the online guestbook atwww.stithfuneralhome.net.
Stanley “Wayne” Stevens1950-2011
JUNCTION CITY —Stanley Wayne Stevens, 61,of Parksville, died Monday,Feb. 20, 2012.
Born Aug. 28, 1950, inBoyle County, he was a sonof Mary Frances CannonStevens and the late EugeneStevens. He was the hus-band of Margaritta AnnReynolds Stevens. He was aretired policeman andworked in law enforcementfor the Danville, Harrods-burg Junction City and Lex-ington police departments.He was a minister since1994 and was chaplain forthe Boyle County Fire De-partment. He was a mem-ber of Junction City FirstBaptist Church and theBaptist Relief Mission. Hewas involved with the Ma-sons of Franklin Lodge No.46, the Oleika Shrine Tem-ple, Fraternal Order of Po-lice, American Legion BoylePost, Disabled American
Veterans and Veterans ofForeign Wars and was aKentucky Colonel and Ken-tucky Admiral.
In addition to his wifeand mother, he is survivedby two daughters, Carol(Michael) Mesman and Jes-sica Adline (Charlie) Grif-fitts; a son, aren ElwoodStevens; two brothers, Larry(Brenda) Stevens and Gary(Connie) Stevens; eightgrandchildren; and twogreat-grandchildren. Hewas preceded in death by abrother, Ray (Sharon)Stevens of Stanford.
A funeral will be 1 p.m.Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, atStith Funeral Home andFamily Center in JunctionCity. e Rev. Ernest Mar-tin, the Rev. Dale Dentonand the Rev. KeithWilloughby will officiate.
Pallbearers will bearen Stevens, NathanStevens, Charlie Griffitts, Je-remy Stevens, Sammy Rear-don, Kenneth Reynolds Jr.,T.J. Reynolds, AnthonyReardon, C.J. Howell andDavid Stevens. Honorarypallbearers will be hisgrandchildren.
Visitation will be after 5p.m. ursday at Stith Fu-neral Home in JunctionCity.
e family suggests do-nations to Junction CityFirst Baptist Church, AlumSprings First Church of GodMissions or Boyle CountyFire Department.
An online guestbook isavailable at www.stithfuneralhome.net.
Viola GrossViola Rowe Gross, 90,
widow of Dr. Rodney T.Gross Jr., a native ofDanville, died Monday inVersailles.
She was the daughter ofthe late Robert and Hort-ense Moore Rowe. She
graduated from Bate HighSchool and Kentucky StateUniversity. She assisted herhusband for 35 years as of-fice manager of Gross Vet-erinary Clinic in Grayson.
Survivors include herson, Rodney T. Gross III;three grandchildren,Michael, Crystal and Rod-ney; and a great-grandson,Cameron Gross.
e funeral will be 1 p.m.Saturday at St. John AMEChurch, 210 E. Clinton St.,Frankfort.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m.Friday and noon Saturdayat the church.
Guestbook: smith-jack-son.com.
GARRARD
Joetta LoganLANCASTER — Joetta
Logan, 80, of Kelley RidgeRoad, died Saturday at St.Joseph Hospital in Lexing-ton, Ky.
She was a farmer andretired from the GarrardCounty Hospital afterworking as the switch-board operator for manyyears. She also was the sta-tion manager for WIXIradio station in Lancaster.
Joetta was a member ofHyattsville Baptist Church.
She was preceded indeath by her husband,Dwight Logan; her father,Joe Cephas Ray; heradopted father, ThomasGilbert Long; and hermother, Allie MarseeLong.
Survivors include twodaughters, Vickie Gibson(Ken) and Tammy Ellis(Doug), both of Lancaster;five grandchildren, AaronLogan Ellis, SaraVard L.(Matthew) VonGruenigen,Teddy Thomas MasonEllis, Logan MacRae Ellisand Aislinn Clay Ellis.
Funeral services will be10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb.23, 2012, at Spurlin Fu-neral Home Chapel withthe Rev. Daryl Hodge offi-ciating. Burial will be inLancaster Cemetery.
Active pallbearers willbe Jordan Davis, MichaelAnderson, Curt Carrier,Matthew VonGruenigen,George Moberly, Bill Crad-dock, Teddy Thomas Ellisand Aaron Ellis. Honorarypallbearers will be BillieDavis, Wilma Joe Pence,Clyde Long, Greg Burn-side, Betty Graves, BarbaraSparks and Donald Ray.
Visitation is 6-9 p.m.today.
w w w . s p u r l i n f u n e r a lhomelancaster.com
MERCER
David B. Bradshaw1953-2012
HARRODSBURG —David Bowman Bradshaw,58, of Harrodsburg, diedTuesday.
Born June 3, 1953, inDanville, he was the son ofthe late Glenn L. and Phyl-lis Bowman Bradshaw. Hewas a state geologist and amember of United Presby-terian Church.
Survivors include abrother, Charles LewisBradshaw of Harrodsburg;cousins; and friends.
A memorial service willbe 2 p.m. Monday, March5, at United PresbyterianChurch. There will be novisitation.
Memorial contributionsmay be sent to a charity ofone's choice.
Guestbook at www.simsfuneralservices.com.
ELSEWHERE
Mary Hall1924-2012
Mary Mae Hall, formerlyof Franklin County andCasey County, passed awayTuesday Feb. 21, 2012, atDanville Rehab Center.
Born April 9, 1924, shewas a daughter of the lateHenry William Hall andAnna Liza Reardon. Shewas preceded in death byher husband Z.T. Hall, andchildren Edward, ElizabethAnn and Mary Helen Hall.
Survivors include herson, Henry T. Hall; adaughter, Opal Morton;five grandchildren; sevengreat-grandchildren; andseven great-great-grand-children.
Visitation will be 9-11a.m. Friday at Harrod Bros.Funeral Home in Frank-fort, with services followingat 11 a.m. Burial will be inPeaks Mill Cemetery.
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