Wimbledon Speakers Club

WIMBLEDON SPEAKERS CLUB – WEDNESDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2011 – 7.30pm

CHAIR: Philippe Truffert

Phillippe chose the topics of ‘what would you say to…a famous person. This worked well for everyone having alot of fun with famous people like Amy Winehouse, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cherie Blair, Wayne Rooney, Alan Sugar, John Cleese.
Michael won best Topic with conversation with his chosen famous person being Pablo Casals.

TIMEKEEPER: Sam Williams

TOPICS EVALUATOR: Joseph Nurse

BUSINESS SESSION: Michael Ronayne

REFRESHMENTS: Isabelle Bano

SPEECH (LEVEL 1): Kally Paulin
Kally did an excellent speech in the second half – Pursue Your Dreams – and used her life story to illustrate.

EVALUATOR: Katherine Inglis
Katherine passed Kally with flying colours and a most inspiring speech. We look forward to hearing more from Kally soon.

SPEECH (LEVEL TBC): Alice Herron
EVALUATOR: Chrissy Facon
BIG EARS: Alison Holford
GENERAL EVALUATOR: Adam Tomlinson

NEXT MEETING IN 3 WEEKS – WEDS 14th DEC

WSC ANNUAL SPEECH CONTEST – Subject is ‘Survival’ and quite a few sign ups so far… so be there or be square!!

Vanessa, our Chair, gave us all a warm welcome to Wimbledon speakers club on a cold autumn evening. With an opener introduction of “what you love about autumn”…. Leaves certainily seemed to be theme of the evening.

Alice brought some GROOVE into the evening with Aretha Franklin song titles as the topic theme. Everyone tried their best but Kingsley stole the show with his rendition of King of the road and his topic titled “I can’t get no satisfaction”.

Katherine carved her way expertly though the task of evaluation of 17 different peoples topics before Rosa providing a fine cup of tea for all at the break, to warm us all up.

In the second half we had a rapid fire round of one minute topics distributed by Vanessa, followed by Michaels invaluable tips on “The art of evaluating”.

Isabelle’s introductory speech titled “Can dreams come true?” where she brought us though her childhood dream of wishing to speak all languages. Ben evaluated Isabelle passing her with flying colours.

The evening drew to a close with Josephs clever “Big Ears” questions and Philippe’s evaluation of the evening.

Another success all round which then continued next door for a quick refreshment and a natter.

After a long summer break Wimbledon Speakers club is back in action.

Michael kicked off this years fortnightly sessions as Chair and Topics Chair with a very apt topics session “Something New”..

A good turn out, three of which were visitors. Everyone managed a 3 minute story assigned.

After a healthy refreshment session where peppermint tea continued to be the favourite this year, everyone caught up on “the summer ” activities.

In the second half Gareth performed a level 5 Speech evaluated by Katherine.

Alice performed her Level 8 Speech on humour, titled “You don’t have to be mad to join Wimbledon speakers Club!!! Sally was the evaluator for Alice and she and her Ghosts passed with flying colours.

Vanessa was general evaluator and she gave her differing opinion on the evaluation of the speeches. She thanked and positively critiqued Michael for Chairing, Craig for Timing, Ben for Topics evaluation and indeed Phillip for the Big Ears section.

The evening ended and everyone wandered over to the Antionette for a new year of after Speakers drinks :->