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Southeastern students to participate in Constitution Day essay contest
Press Release Date: 09-17-2009
Skip Robinson, Director of the Center for Rhetoric and Professional Development, explains the essay contest to Shannon Hutcherson and Mika Knight, both Durant freshmen. Sharon Morrison, Director of the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library, stands with the students in front of the annual Constitution Day display set up in the library by her students.
DURANT, Okla. – The United States observed Constitution Day Thursday, Sept. 17, by celebrating the 222nd anniversary of the signing of our Constitution.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University is commemorating this day by sponsoring an essay contest based on the address given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the 77th U.S. Congress on Jan. 6, 1941. The address was based on the "Four Freedoms" speech.
These four freedoms are: Freedom of speech; freedom to worship; freedom from want; and freedom from fear.
Essays should detail what these four freedoms mean to the writers and what measures citizens should take to ensure these four freedoms for future generations.
The contest is open to any full-time undergraduate student enrolled at Southeastern. The student must be eligible for tuition-waiver scholarship. Deadline for submission is Oct. 2. The award is a $300 tuition scholarship for the spring semester 2010 for the student with the best essay.
The essay must be the student's original work and may not exceed 1,000 words. It must be prepared using Microsoft Word with margins of one inch and 12-point font size. Essays must be submitted as e-mail attachments.
All entries will be judged by selected faculty and staff at Southeastern based on originality of the essay and the quality of the essay with respect to standard written English.
Entries should be submitted to Dr. Bryon K. Clark at bkclark@SE.edu. Clark is Dean of the School of Graduate and University Studies.