Citadel Class of 2016 Cadet Haley Osmer receives The Henry Dale Smith Public Speaking Award

2015 May 21

The Henry Dale Smith Public Speaking Award is an annual recognition of the cadet who wins the Corps-wide speaking competition. The award was established in 2011 by the oral communications lab to spotlight talented cadet speakers and to honor Mr. Henry D. Smith, Citadel Class of 1947, who established the lab. As an entrepreneur he founded a privately owned company in 1954 which grew into one of the nation's largest distributors of pharmaceutical products.

This year, the award was presented to Haley Osmer, of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, at the awards convocation in McAlister Field House. The ceremony was sponsored by Jim Whetstone, Class of 1960, and his wife, Lila. Osmer is pursuing a BA in Psychology.