We have a winner!

Here are the finalists in the Oratory Contest.     Melaine Hanafin and Kelly Coluci, Second Runners-Up, Thomas, First Runner-Up, and Jordan Hubacz , Winner, who will represent us at the National Right to Life Oratory Contest on June 30th in Washington, DC.   It was such a pleasure to work with these young people! We will present their prizes and hear Jordan's speech at our Convention. You'll want to be there! Anne       RIGHT TO LIFE is PAGE ONE in 2012   Massachusetts Citizens for Life Convention followed by Annual Meeting and Election of Directors   DoubleTree by Hilton, 11 Beaver St, Milford (new location), Saturday, June 9, 2012, 8:30am - 5:00pm   8:30 - 9:00, Registration and Coffee   9:00 - 9:15 President's Welcome   9:15 - 10:30, MARK DISCHER, PhD, Academic Dean, Professor of Moral Theology, Magdalen College: "The HHS Mandate, It's Background and Implications"   10:30 - 11:45, MARY BEERWORTH, Executive Director of Vermont Right to Life, architect and organizer of the recent defeat of Doctor-Prescribed Suicide in Vermont.   11:45 - 1:15, LUNCH and BEARKOUT SESSIONS: MCFL Federal and State PAC's, Massachusetts Alliance Against Doctor-Prescribed Suicide, the latest on anti-life efforts in the schools, pro-life education, and Chapter resources. We will also introduce our comprehensive new web presence and the ways each of us can become involved in using the web more effectively to advance the cause of life. Presenters: Linda Thayer, Madeline McComish, John Rowe, Mary Beerworth, Robert Joyce, Esq., Aaron Rodriguez, and Gabriel Nicolau.   1:15 - 2:30, HADLEY ARKES, the Edward Ney Professor of American Institutions at Amherst College, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, and connected with the Madison Program at Princeton University, will discuss the possibilities, scope and ramifications of the upcoming (end of June) SCOTUS Obamacare decision.   2:30 - 3:00, Oratory Contest, Presentation of Prizes, Recital of Winning Speech. Kelly     Coluci, Tom Gaudet, Melanie Hanafin, and Jordan Hubacz (First Place Winner).     The Convention will be followed by the Annual Meeting of Members convened to elect Directors at Large to the Board of Directors and to approve new MCFL Bylaws. That will be followed by the Annual Meeting of the Directors to elect officers. All voting members are encouraged to attend the Meeting of Members and to stay for the Board Meeting. There is no charge for the meeting and members need not have attended the Convention.   *Voting member(s) an individual who had donated $25 in the past 12 months of a couple who has donated $40. Register online at: masscitizensforlife.org