
From the District Chair
October 08-09 Newsletter #1
West OK
District Chair Newsletter
Greetings to all Western OK NFL Coaches and squads, especially the number
of schools joining us for the first time! We
are all already in the opening throes of this year’s competitive season.
Hope all of you are taking time to be good to yourselves and spend some
rare time with family and friends. Contact
me at eballard@norman.k12.ok.us
throughout the year for additional help and news.
Please refer to the following items for NFL information:
1)
National NFL Information: Please
pay your $99 yearly dues to the national office ASAP so you can get put on the
district listing with the national office. Remember
if you are an affiliate or chapter, you can receive FREE DVDs of the national
finals in all 3 Interp events. Just
fill out the form “Licensing Agreement,” send it in to national office, and
they will send you the 3 DVDs for FREE. You
can also purchase other DVDs and/or CDs of the other events’ finals.
These, along with other features at nflonline.org are valuable teaching
tools. If you are confused about the
difference between Duo Interp and HD/DD, WATCH THE FINAL DVD.
2)
West OK
NFL Information:
a)
Money: your school’s
yearly dues are $50, payable to West OK NFL, not the national office.
You will also be billed for a “surcharge” for each 25 increment of
memberships/degrees over 50. Many
schools have already paid—thanks! I
will send you a bill later in the year, but you can estimate the amount now and
submit your
PO
in advance to your financial department. This
money goes to pay college judges at District, buy our
Burton
coaching award, pay for extemp topics service at District, and pay for our
program ad in the national program. Last
year
West OK
won outstanding program ad!
b)
Dates/places: our
District Congress is scheduled for March 7, 2009, at Bishop McGuiness in OKC.
Jana Harrison from Edmond North will be the clerk of Congress.
Bills and
PO
resumes will be due to her by Friday, Feb. 6, 2009.
You can give them to her personally at the Norman High contest on that
day, or send them electronically. Do
not assume she received the bills electronically unless she sends you an
e-confirmation. Her e-mail address
will be sent in a later newsletter.
Our District tournament is
scheduled for April 2,3,4, 2009 at the
Forum
Building
at OU. You will need to send me
FIRM numbers for each event by Saturday, March 14.
These numbers CANNOT decrease. I
will need to plan for #s qualifying and will be contacting those who have not
brought their full quota to bring more. Do
NOT bring fewer than you say you will in each event by March 14.
I will need FIRM names by Thursday, March 26, 2009.
This will be during my spring break, so you will need to send the names
to my home e-mail, kiko01@earthlink.net.
c)
entry procedures: remember,
these are different from OSSAA contests. All
entrants must have 25 points on record and be entered as an NFL member one week
before the tournament, i.e. by March 26, 2009.
Your entry numbers are keyed to your total number of memberships and
degrees. Check the national website
for the number you are allowed to bring. You
may enter only 4 students or 4 teams MAXIMUM in each of the offered events (LD,
CX, Public Forum Debate, FX, DX, OO, Duo Interp, HI, DI).
Students may enter only 1 team event.
Students may enter 2 events MAXIMUM.
Students double entered must sign a “Letter of Intent,” as they may
take only 1 event to nationals. I
will need Interp material titles with your students’ names when you make your
entry. You must bring your original
book/magazine with you to registration for interp entrants.
You must bring an OO to file at registration.
Your extemp students will be offered 3 topics from which to choose per
round, and we will have cross-examination in the finals of both extemp events.
We will have 2 prelim rounds in everything with 1 judge, using 3 judges
for Round 3 and beyond. The
tentative schedule is available upon request.
It is the same one we have used for years.
All events take place all 3 days.
That’s about it for now. Hope
you all ask if you need additional information, and also hope this gives you
needed info to plan your year.
Cheers, Betsy Ballard,
West OK
NFL Chair, Norman High