The PHOENICIAN SPEECH TROPHY COMPETITION 1966

[originally published in Phoenix 1966]

Extract from the report on the Senior Competition...

It was a small but determined audience that managed to tear itself away from homework and the television set to attend the annual Senior Speech Trophy Competition on Ascension Day, May 19th. Their hopes of an enjoyable evening’s entertainment were well and truly fulfilled. It is worth commenting that the standard of the speeches this year was outstanding...

...Every year somebody manages to produce a humorous speech, and this year was no exception. The last speaker, Richard Wakeman, discussing the subject of “Women at Work”, provided an amusing account of his rather pessimistic views on female workers, based, he made quite clear, on a comprehensive experience. It was popular among the audience, but the adjudicators, while wholeheartedly agreeing that it had great potential for the London Palladium, would have preferred a more serious approach.

(Result of the Junior Speech Trophy Competition: 1. G. Nolan. 2. S. Hinton. 3. Susan Monk).