Back in my day...
When the team was originally founded, sharing a year with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and the first of the Matrix trilogy
1999
A civil right's activist who famously gave a speech entitled "I have a dream."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Public speaking was once apart of the original roster for this famous quadrennial show of talents
The Olympics
The birthplace of the word "forensics", along with Aristotle and Cicero
A poet and playwright who famously wrote, "To be or not to be...that is the question."
William Shakespeare
The year Doane Forensics made the top 10 at AFA
2015
The century in which speech events began at Doane, sharing time with WWII and the Space Race
Early 20th! In the beginning, it began as the Doane Debate Squad. By midcentury, it turned into Tiger Talkers, and eventually became the Doane Forensics Team!
The 26th president of the United States who gave the advice of "speak softly and carry a big stick."
Teddy Roosevelt
This team, who calls Peoria, IL home, has won the most AFA team championships (22)
Bradley University
The oldest collegiate speech/forensics society of which Doane is a member
Pi Kappa Delta
Another US president, this one being the 16th, who said in his famous Emancipation Proclamation, "Four score and seven years ago...
Bethel College, Bradley University, George Mason University, K-State, Minn. State Mankato, UW-Eau Claire are the only teams to attend every AFA Conference. Last year's was at one of these six, which one was it?
UW-Eau Claire
An award founded in 1888 by senator James W. Dawes given to the best student speaker at Doane
The Dawes Oratorical Award
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds." was said by this American physicist after fathering the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The year Doane had our very first AFA championship, and trust me, it's more recent than you think.
2022 (Our very own Ali!)