Speech and Debate
J.K. Mullen participates in the CHSAA Large School Division State Tournament. Mullen is also a Charter Member of the National Forensics League . Frank Sferra, a Seven-Diamond National Forensics League coach, has been a key figure in Mullen Speech and Debate for over 50 years. The library is named for beloved faculty member and speech coach, Frank Sferra, who has taught at Mullen for more than 50 years and who has been a key player in developing competitive speech as an activity in Colorado and across the nation.
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Famous quotes containing the words speech and, speech and/or debate:
“I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech and that reminds me of a story that’s so dirty I’m ashamed to think of it myself.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, as a newly-appointed college president commenting on the remarks of Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
—Bible: New Testament Colossians 4:6.
“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)