Wimbledon Speakers Club

A great Topics session at the last meeting chaired by Vanessa (on right) focussed on subjects with an environmental or recycling theme. Chrissy (left) gave her customary excellent evaluation to Michael who was preparing for the Public Speaking Olympiad at the weekend. The Olympiad featured teams from Toastmasters, Cogers, SpeakersBank and our own ASC. The Toastmaster were worthy overall winners on the day. However Michael won the award for the outstanding individual speaker. (Not bad considering the contests contained 6 speakers who had been national prize winners with either Toastmasters or ASC.)

All great clubs need to renew and move on. So it was hugely encouraging to have three of the newer members of the club running the evening expertly. From left to right: Shad took the role of Topics Chair for the first time, producing an intriguing array of subjects based on famous quotations; David took control of the overall evening for his first time and guided everyone through with great authority and Clarke also made his debut as Topics Evaluator, giving very helpful feedback to each speaker.