May 20, 2024
The Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation Board of Directors has announced the scholarship recipients of the 120th Miriam Lutcher Stark Contest in Reading and Declamation from students previously winning first place at the various local level competitions held at each of the five Orange County public high schools. The local winners competed in the categories of Declamation and Interpretive Reading at the County Final held at the Lutcher Theater.
First place winners were awarded $5,000 and second place winners were awarded $2,500.
Vidor High School’s Elyse Walker won first place in Declamation for her presentation of “Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Leave” and Mariana Gonzales from West-Orange Stark High School won first place in Interpretive Reading for her presentation of “Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic.” Second place in Declamation went to Hannah Edwards of Bridge City High School for her delivery of “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace. Orangefield High School’s Catalina Lawley took second place in Interpretive Reading with “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin.
Clyde “Tad” McKee, Stark Foundation president and CEO, presented all County Final contestants with commemorative watches, which is a long-held tradition of the Stark Reading Contest.
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