16 members and guests attended the second meeting of the season which was opened by President Neil Wilson. The meeting was chaired by Peter Wilson who introduced three excellent speeches. Anthony Meadows gave an informative speech about the various uses of “Purposeful Plants”, and Chris Clissitt entertained the audience with a speech about men’s neckties. John Holian then gave his second excellent tutorial speech about how to approach off the cuff short speeches.
The speeches were evaluated by Howard Herbert, Neil Wilson and Jeff Denton, all of whom gave constructive and helpful comments on each Speaker’s performance. Terry Ryan then set speakers the challenging task of speaking impromptu for two minutes on a variety of subjects which had arisen from various conversations he had in the previous few days. Peter Nellist evaluated the topics session and Mavis Cryer gave her views on the evening as a whole in her role as General Evaluator.
Tags: Public Speaking