{"id":216815,"date":"2026-06-11T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216815\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:18:08","slug":"clarks-summit-student-wins-third-in-american-legion-oratorical-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216815\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarks Summit student wins third in American Legion Oratorical Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Judah Donnelly, a high school senior from Clarks Summit, won third place in the national American Legion Oratorical Contest hosted at Hillsdale College in Michigan on May 16 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Donnelly secured third place out of 53 high school finalists from around the country for his oration, \u201cThe Electoral College and Our Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contestants each gave a prepared oration on some aspect of the U.S. Constitution, with emphasis on a citizen\u2019s duties and obligations to our government. Each contestant also gave a shorter discourse focused on a specific Constitutional provision assigned to all contestants immediately beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the contest provided more than $203,000 in college scholarships. Donnelly won a $20,000 scholarship for his achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Juliet Hetzel, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., won first place and a $25,000 scholarship, and Wendy Gluski, a senior from Scottsdale, Ariz., won second place and a $22,500 scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Judah Donnelly, a high school senior from Clarks Summit, won third place in the national American Legion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-216815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}