Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Scholarship

Name: The Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Scholarship Contest

Award Amount: $1000

Information And Eligibility: The Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Scholarship Contest is offered by each states society or chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. The scholarship contest gives students the opportunity to give an original oration on a subject dealing with an event, personality, or document pertaining to the Revolutionary War. In their speech scholarship applicants are asked to show a relationship between their chosen event, personality, or document (from the Revolutionary War) to America today.

Each Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest speech must be no less than five minutes and more than six minutes. The Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Scholarship Contest is open to all high school students at each grade level (freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes). Each state society and/or chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will hold their own contest, with their own deadline, prior to the final-round national contest. First place scholarship award is for $3000, second place scholarship award is for $2000, and third place scholarship award is for $1000.

Deadline: June

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