Pinnacle Classical Academy senior wins American Legion contest
Alyssa Clark, a senior at Pinnacle Classical Academy, won the $500 first prize in the local round of the American Legion High School Oratorical Contest, organized by Warren F. Hoyle American Legion Post 82 and held in Shelby on January 18.
Alyssa competed against students from schools in Cleveland County and other counties as she delivered, from memory, a prepared oration on a citizen’s duties and obligations to our government, as well as an address on an assigned topic related to the Constitution. She now advances to the division level of the competition.