The Cambridge School of Dallas recently held its annual Declamation Contest.  Each year all students in grades 6 through 11 select, memorize and perform a famous speech or poem.  The top students proceed to a final competition where outside judges select the winners.  Oliver Weir (Freshman) received 1^st Place for his rendition of “The Babies” by Mark Twain, Alexis Kerman (Sophomore) placed 2^nd for Lyndon Johnson’s call on Congress to ensure equal rights for all Americans, Patrick Sedeno(Junior) placed 3^rd for John Kennedy’s 1963 speech supporting West Germany after the erection of the Berlin Wall and Bobby Browne(8^th grade) won the Middle School Competition with a monologue from Linda Stockham’s Arctic Quest.   Latin and English teacher Professor Mariel Mueller coordinates the event.This year’s judges were Bess Banister Cooper, M.A., the former Declamation Director at Cambridge and Schott Crider, Ph.D. and Andrew Moran, Ph.D. both associate professors of English at the University of Dallas.