<p>PLEASE CONTACT ROXANNE TUSCANY WITH ANY CHANGES/DROPS AT THIS POINT:&nbsp; roxanne.tuscany@gcccd.edu&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Dear Colleagues,</p> <p>Grossmont&nbsp; Community College Forensics Squad cordially invites you to attend the 22nd Annual Griffin Invitational Speech &amp; Debate Tournament to be held <strong>Saturday &amp; Sunday, Nov. 15th&amp;16th,</strong></p> <p><strong>2014 at Grossmont Community College.</strong></p> <p>Grossmont College is located, approximately 15 miles east of San Diego, in El Cajon, California.</p> <p>Our college will also host the Ray Dahlin Individual Events Tournament, <strong>on Friday, Nov. 14th.</strong></p> <p>Our tournament offers your students:</p> <ul> <li><strong>A One-Day Individual Events Tournament</strong>, <strong>on Saturday, Nov.15thwith</strong> <strong>3 rounds and finals</strong> in Open and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). <strong>Students are allowed to triple enter, except in Extemp. and Duo.&nbsp; </strong>&nbsp;This allows your students to complete all their individual events in one day, including finals and awards.</li> <li>A separate Individual Events Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges will be awarded.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Our &quot;Picket Fence&quot; Award:&nbsp; A special trophy for the student with a &quot;picket fence&quot; in individual events.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>A One-Day Parliamentary Debate Tournament</strong>, <strong>on Sunday, Nov.16th with Open, Junior and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant).&nbsp; We will be using the 4 preliminary rounds and 2 out rounds, model.</strong> There will be two out rounds, with first out round winners receiving bronze awards and second out round winners designated either silver or gold awards.&nbsp; (Open Division final round is negotiable) A separate Parliamentary Debate Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges in Debate will be awarded. &nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>An Overall Sweepstakes Award for the top three colleges in both Individual Events and Debate will be awarded during the final ceremony on Sunday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>An experienced, conscientious, Tab room. The following tab room staff have worked together, some for many of the 22 years:&nbsp; Skip Rutledge: Point Loma U., Neil Moura: Mira Costa College, Eddie Tiongson: Irvine Valley, Liana Koeppel: Cypress, Danny Cantrell: Mt. SAC, Reyna Velarde: CSU-Long Beach.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Great food for the judges, so they won&rsquo;t be too hungry to judge!</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Our campus cafeteria will be open, for most of the day, so you won&rsquo;t have to go off campus.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A pleasant location:&nbsp; Grossmont is approximately 15 minutes from downtown San Diego, on the freeway, so you may even have time to visit some of San Diego&#39;s beautiful sights.</li> </ul> <p>We look forward to seeing you at the Griffin Invitational Tournament, at Grossmont College.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Sincerely,</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Roxanne Tuscany,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Director of Forensics at Grossmont&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>619 644-7276(office),&nbsp; or 619 204-8792(cell)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a href=\"mailto:roxanne.tuscany@gcccd.net\">roxanne.tuscany@gcccd.</a>edu&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>