2012 has been an important year for Speakers: it marks the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Association of Speakers Clubs, the 30th of the launch of Carlisle Ladies Speakers Club and the 10th of its becoming the mixed club it now is, Carlisle & District Speakers Club.
Amid all the changes and turnover we still have three of the original Founding Members from 1982:
Christine Shuttleworth, Jess Sinclair and Margaret Hunt, all active and whose experience is of the greatest value to all of our members.
Last month North West District of ASC held an Anniversary celebration lunch in Motherwell for members from all three Areas in the District. This was attended by the National President of ASC, Graham McLachlan of Renfrew Speakers Club, here seen presenting Carlisle's John Barrie with his Advanced Certificate of Achievement.
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Our annual Topics competition was held at Morton Community Centre on Thursday 15 November. It had been deferred from the 1st November because of the number of entries in the Speech Competition at that meeting.
A 'Topic' is an impromptu speech of three minutes to be given on a subject handed to the speaker as he or she walks into the room; preparation time is only as long as it takes to reach the point of delivery, so it is literally a test of one's ability to think on one's feet.
The winner was Margaret Hunt, who now proceeds to the the Border Area competition on 27th January 2013. Many thanks to our Judges: Yvonne Spencer and Eileen O'Reilly, both former members of our Club, and Ella Atherton.
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