What an exquisitely entertaining evening! Toastmaster Francis West was his usual smooth, self assured self introducing our enthusiastic speakers.
Table Topics was hosted by Mandip Sohal. The session was based around the world of current affairs and speakers were asked to convince the audience of a particular idea or argument – very challenging and great fun!
We enjoyed 3 fantastic speeches this evening. Charmaine Smith told the poignant story of her daughter’s battle with Sickle Cell Disease. We wish her every success in setting up a platform to increase awareness of this disease.
Angela Lansbury gave a very entertaining and educational speech about poetry.
The highlight of the evening was Mo’s speech entitled Life Begins at 60. Mo wove a fascinating tapestry of the story of her life. She began by describing her 60th birthday. Throughout the speech she used lots of humour. Everyone loved the description of the unique use of a skateboard to wizz around the house to do the cleaning, decorating, fencing and gardening! She thoroughly deserved the best speech award.
General Evaluator Mike Robinson from Athenians provided us with a very insightful and entertaining report to round off the evening.
This evening’s winning speeches were:-
Best Speaker: Mo
Best Evaluator: Maneesha
Best Table Topics: Jan
Icebreaker: Charmaine
What a fantastic evening! The membership is so full energy and positivity I am sure that this will be one of the most successful years for Harrovians.
The evening began with our Toastmaster Mandip Sohal welcoming the newly elected Committee.
Harrovians new president Alan McMahon thanked former president Tony Lazar for his efforts over the past year.
For the next couple of hours, Harrovians enjoyed an evening of sparkling entertainment beginning with a lively and stimulating Table Topics Session hosted by Tony Lazar. Well done to Indra, Khandee, Mo, Kieran, Angela, Carl and Shirley for your wonderful speeches which certainly got the evening off to a lively start.
We were then treated to two contrasting and entertaining speeches.
New member Ruth’s Icebreaker Speech vividly described how she made her dream a reality by opening a teashop in Middlesex. This uplifting speech highlighted how, with self belief and vision, it is possible for us all to achieve our goals. Ruth used gentle humour describing day to day life running the shop and the colourful characters who regularly dropped in to sample her delicious cakes with intriguing names such as “The Sinner From Pinner” and “Naughty But Nice”.
Warren Sheng’s Speech from the Advanced Speaker Manual took the form of a public relations exercise in which the aim was to successfully field a range of hostile questions from an audience. The speech introduced the scenario of the Government introducing a compulsory savings account for UK citizens. A lively debate ensued in which Warren defended the proposal with skilful use of humour and tact as well as managing to avoid a drenching by Shirley!
This evening President Alan McMahon welcomed 3 guests to Harrovians – Carl, Tim and Peter Taylor.
Winners of the evening’s votes were:-
Kieran – Best Table Topics Speaker
Angela – Best Evaluator
A final thanks to this evenings Timer - Sanjay, Grammarian - Khandee and evaluators Alex (Table Topics), Indra (Ruth’s Speech) and Angela (Warren’s Speech).
The evening finished with us all enjoying some much appreciated cakes home-baked by Ruth.
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