Winners of the Four Way Test Speech Competition at Wissahickon High School

The Rotary Club of Blue Bell conducted its annual Four Way Test Speech Contest at Wissahickon High School on February 18, 2016.  The contest challenges students to prepare a speech on some issue of importance to them and to use the Rotary Four Way Test to analyze the issue.  All five contestants were well prepared and demonstrated both an understanding of the Four Way Test and the analytical skill to apply the test to their chosen issue.

The top three students won cash prizes.  In third place, Lindsey Fritz spoke passionately of the moral and ethical considerations of Veganism.  Second place winner Jon Pogorzelski looked at the issue of the underfunding of public defender offices and the lack of equal justice for indigent defendants.  First place winner David Huang, talked of the undue pressures on many teens to focus too much time and energy getting into the right college, instead of focusing on becoming a lifelong learner.

 David will be representing Wissahickon High School in the regional contest on Saturday, March 19 starting at 10:00 a.m. in College Hall at the Blue Bell campus of Montgomery County Community College.  The winner of the regional contest will compete at the Rotary District 7340 conference in Gettysburg at the end of April.

The Four Way Test, which guides the lives of Rotarians worldwide, embodies the following:

First, is it the Truth?

Second, is it Fair to all concerned?

Third, will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?

Fourth, will it be Beneficial to all concerned?