and now i'm sure you're all interested in the faults of our class election the vote has all been counted and the new president of our senior class is  at the start of his senior year we all knew right medford dad excellent student and well fel really i'd like to have you meet marilyn jackson primarily though perhaps you remember marilyn from the tryouts last week gray sure i thought she looked familiar we're going to use marilyn and that stamp brainiest speaking this year a sort of break have you had much experience in public speaking maryland you know i have that this is my first time that i've heard you the last two years when you wanted to say ten tips for the new i did great and i was just lucky but that's what we can do to help you now now first if you go there are a worthless hard with marilyn he helped her find suitable material for practice he pointed out the flaws in her delivery suggested ways for her to improve and most important ray was patient and understanding only brands of science and slow to catch on i met mr murray when he was paying me along for the trip that time went by marilyn improved steadily with the ray always helping always encouraging always urging her to do better then came the big day as a district tournaments at our team had done remarkably well in the morning and feelings were running high when the extemporaneous speaking contests came up in the afternoon when his turn came ray as always was sure of himself and spoke in the chris smooth manner that always brought approving smiles to the faces of the judges ray was carrying the banner of lincoln high to another championship marilyn was the last speaker at first she had a bad case of stage fright and seemed a little shy but once she got started she began to appear natural and warm the more she talked the more confident she became marilyn was doing all right and the judges well maryland ahead and passed them through after their conference in which they weighed the merits of the contest and the judges second place winner is mr gray met for first place in the extemporaneous speaking contest goes to gosh ray i'm sorry i don't know why they picked me that i want you to know that i realize it was your health that made it possible for me to win yeah here mar won fair and square but when she saw the resent meant then raised as i'm sure she would rather have lost as bar a while losing was a new experience for him and i wasn't quite sure just how it would affect him meet next week don't always do it ray you just can't trust these women to learn all your techniques and then beat your own game just like in maryland the i'd like to talk to you about plans for the state contest next month re there mr murray i'm not going to be on the team anymore do you have a reason not interested that's all r you don't like being second best very well do you what do you mean i mean that since you didn't win first place for once you've decided that if you can't be best you won't be anything i don't think i know how much winning the contest meant to you r i know that you feel maryland has in some ways betrayed you and i know that you've been taking quite a bit of ribbing from some of your friends but we're a team ray and as a team we win or lose together maryland's first and your second place gave us the tournament for district champions again ray largely due to your speech and your work with marilyn re think this thing o think how they reacted after you beat him in the student council elections think gray you can win a lot of respect and inner strength by becoming well it's up to ray now he can still change his attitude but being a good winner make it hard to be a good loser would rain have been a better loser if his family and friends hadn't given him about his loss well ray ever be able to be our greatest poser how would you have acted if you had been ray what do you