Archive for February, 2011

President of Wetherby Speakers Club, Neil Wilson, opened the latest meeting which was used as a warm up for the semi-finals of the National Speaking Competition in which Wetherby member Terry Ryan hopes to repeat his success of two years ago. Terry gave an amusing speech with a serious message condemning the views of Conspiracy Theorists.  The speech was an entertaining commentary on this strange cultural phenomenon.   Caroline Boom then gave her views on Terry’s performance.

The semi finals also include a competition for Evaluators who help Speakers to include. Jocelyn Brooks gave a serious speech on Freedom which will be used as the object of the Evaluation Contest semi-finalists.  Chris Cissitt gave his views on Jocelyn’s speech.

Howard Herbert then chaired the Topics Session and set speakers the task of speaking off the cuff for two minutes each about a variety of idioms in common use. Scott Stephenson evaluated the topics session. Finally John Holian gave his helpful views on the meeting as a whole.

President Neil Wilson opened the latest meeting of Wetherby Speakers Club and welcomed three first time visitors, James Ellis, Colin Remmer and Struan Dott .  After a short business session Chris Clissitt chaired the meeting and introduced Julia Frater who gave her first speech at the Club. Julia took the opportunity to practise the launch speech of a Networking Venture she is setting up, named Bon Ami.  Next Speaker was John Holian who was given only 10 minutes preparation time to give an 8 minute speech entitled “Speculative Bubble”. Both speeches were excellent and Howard Herbert and Scott Stephenson gave constructive advice on how to improve each Speaker’s performance. Peter Wilson then chaired the Topics Session and set speakers the task of speaking off the cuff for two minutes each about a variety of phrases in common use. Jan Millar evaluated the topics session. Finally Jeff Denton gave his helpful views on the meeting as a whole.