Archive for January, 2011

Wetherby News club meeting report 20 January 2011

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

President Neil Wilson opened the latest meeting of Wetherby Speakers Club and welcomed another first time visitor, Anne Beddis.  After a short business session Caroline Boom chaired the meeting and introduced Peter Wilson who gave an informative speech about how a six point plan to ensure that New Years Resolutions are kept. Terry Ryan, 2009 National Speech Contest Winner, then gave an educational talk on the use of humour in speeches. Evaluators for the speeches were Neil Wilson and Peter Nellist.

Niki Boersma then chaired the Topics Session and set speakers the unusual challenging task of imagining they were a variety of famous people writing a letter to their mothers. Chris Clissitt evaluated the topics session.

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Terry Ryan wins Area Speech Contest

Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Terry Ryan won the Vale of York Area Speech Contest on Saturday 15th January with his speech “Thanks A Bunch Nancy.” Terry will represent our club and Vale of York Area at the Eastern District contest on Saturday 19th February.

Terry Ryan receives the Area Speech Contest trophy from Chief Judge, Tony Morris

It was a Wetherby 1-2 in the speech contest, as Chris Clissitt claimed the runner up spot with his speech “The Idle Brume.”  In fact, Wetherby made clean sweep of silver medals, as John Holian was 2nd in the evaluation contest, and Chris Clissitt 2nd in the topics contest. Lindsay Dutch of York RI Speakers Club was victorious in both these contests.

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Wetherby News club meeting report 6 January 2011

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

President Neil Wilson opened the latest meeting of Wetherby Speakers Club and welcomed two guests, Julia Frater and Anne Wentworth.  Both Julia and Anne are keen to improve their communications skills for business and social reasons and are certain to benefit significantly by visiting the Club. Peter Wilson then chaired the meeting and introduced Caroline Boom who gave an interesting speech about “Luck”. At this point the meeting departed from the usual format when five members all evaluated the same speech as they competed for the Club Evaluation Contest Trophy.  Evaluation is the cornerstone of the Club’s activities because it is the way that members help other speakers to improve their skills with constructive advice. John Holian was a worthy winner and Chris Clissitt came second.  Both will represent the Club in the Vale of York Area contests on 15th January.

 Chris Clissitt then set speakers the challenging task of speaking off the cuff for two minutes on the theme of a variety of quotations from famous and not so famous people. John Holian evaluated the topics session.

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Club Speech Topics and Evaluation Contests

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Terry Ryan won the club speech contest on 4th November with “Thanks a Bunch, Nancy.” He and runner up Chris Clissitt (“In Praise of Hobson”) will represent the club at the Vale of York Area Contest on Saturday January 15th 2011. Denise Adlard of Bradford SC judged the contest.

Jocelyn Brooks and John Holian  were joint winners of the club topics contest on 16th December. Unfortunately Jocelyn is not available on the 15th January, so Chris Clissitt will stand in for her at the Area Contest alongside John  Holian.

John  Holian won the club evaluation contest on 6th January, judged by Chris Birch of Wharfedale and Craven Clubs. He and runner up Chris Clissitt will represent the club at the Vale of York Area Contest.

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