Chesterton High School has been recognized as one of the nation’s “top 100 schools” in speech and debate by the National Forensic League.

CHS ranked 8 out of 2,700 schools nationwide.

The recognition, based upon student participation and excellence in speech activities, was awarded to CHS and published nationwide in the Rostrum, the national magazine of high school speech and on www.nflonline.org , the website of the National Forensic League.

The League, the oldest and largest high school speech organization in America was founded in 1925 to encourage and motivate high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation.

Since its founding NFL has enrolled over 1,150,640 members in all fifty states, U.S. possessions and several foreign countries. Currently over 92,000 high school students and over 7,000 high school teachers are active members.

Prominent NFL alumni include Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Richard Lugar and William Frist, media visionary Ted Turner, Emmy award winners Kelsey Grammer and Shelly Long, television host Oprah Winfrey, news anchor Jane Pauley, CSPAN founder Brian Lamb, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, University President David Boren and Commentator Rush Limbaugh.

Posted 10/19/2007