Club 19 Meetings

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Rostrum Club 19 meets every Friday morning (except public holidays) at 7.15 am at the Cooperative Bulk Handling (CBH) headquarters, 30 Delhi Street, West Perth, Western Australia (WA). (See photo.) Meetings have a duration of one hour & include a light breakfast, at a cost of $7.00 per attendance. There is no charge for a visitor who attends a meeting for the first time.

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Contact Club 19

The Club President Terry Cunningham can be contacted for further information about Club 19 meetings 9237 9713 (W).

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Club 19 Highlights

• Rostrum Speaker of the Year Competition was won by Amber Anderson
• Rostrum WA Recruitment Award for the cub which recruited the most members in 2008
• Bronze Medallion for long service awarded to Dorothy Psaila-Savona

Rostrum WA Speaker of the Year Competition

This competition is regarded as one of the premier public speaking events in WA & has been held annually for more than 40 years. A perpetual trophy, the Arthur Garvey trophy, is awarded to the winner each year, with a personal trophy also provided to the winner.

Club 19 had 2 finalists in the Speaker of the Year competition in 2008, David Colson & Amber Anderson and in 2009 it had 3 finalists, Amy Hardick, Marianne McAdam & Dan Soanes.

In 2008 Amber was the winner, speaking for 15 minutes on the topic Inspiration. As Club 19's President Terry Cunningham noted,

"Amber's achievement was especially noteworthy as there were "three other finalists, with none of them having less than 10 years experience in Rostrum. Amber used that Aquarian energy and enthusiasm, combined with a well structured speech, true emotion and great technique to blitz the competition. It was a  truly magnificent performance from Amber who only joined Club 19 in February this year."

Club 19 Current Members

• Anderson, Amber
• Anderson, Richard
• Bacon, Deborah
• Borrett, Erin
• Burford, Carol
• Buttery, Mike
• Colson, David
• Cunningham, Terry
• Esam, Anthony
• Ethiswaran, Suresh
• Ffarrington, John
• Gavrilova, Natalia
• Gladwin, Derryn-Lee
• Hardick, Amy
• Hau, Melody
• Johnson, Reegan
• Lee, Nelson
• Manaf, Maz
• Mawle, Charlotte
• May, Samantha
• McAdam, Marianne
• Musgrave, Michael
• Peacock, Colin
• Perkins, Scott
• Psaila-Savona, Dorothy
• Soanes, Dan
• Swensen, Greg
• Warren, Greg

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Club 19 Awards

David Carlson Most Improved Speaker

• 1997: Alan Wolstencroft
• 1998: Sandra Bowman
• 1999: Suet Mei Yu
• 2000: Bernie Kroczek
• 2001: Peter Templeman
• 2002: Felicity Flugge
• 2003: Anthony Congdon
• 2004: Pips Kumleden
• 2005: Rebecca Brown & Malcolm Roberts
• 2006: Sandra Green
• 2007: Julie Payne
• 2008: Dan Soanes & Michael Musgrave
• 2009: Sam May

Club 19 Speaker of the Year

• 1990: Colin Peacock
• 1991: Peter King
• 1992: Peter Zurzolo
• 1993: Brian McMahon
• 1994: Colin Peacock
• 1995: Colin Peacock
• 1996: Gayle Greenwood
• 1997: Pat Aguero & Janet Egan
• 1998: Peter Zurzolo
• 1999: Tony Scott
• 2000: Gayle Greenwood
• 2001: David Colson
• 2002: Colin Peacock
• 2003: Anthony Congdon
• 2004: Anthony Congdon
• 2005: Malcolm Roberts
• 2006: Terry Cunningham & Malcolm Roberts
• 2007: Not held
• 2008: Dan Soanes
• 2009: Colin Peacock & Deborah Bacon (novice)

Club 19 Life Members

• John Ffarrington
• Ron Jeffrey
• Colin Peacock
• Dorothy Psaila-Savona
• Greg Warren

Useful Information

Click here to view or download a PDF version (104k) of the principles & requirements for the 10 most frequent Procedural motions that may arise in a general business segment of a meeting.

Click here to view or download a PDF version (104k) of a set of Guidelines for debating based on information originally prepared by Freeman David Carlson.

Click here to view or download a PDF version (80k) of a pro forma Adjudication scoring sheet for scoring competitive speaking.

Click here to view or download a PDF version (24k) of the By Laws of Rostrum Club 19.

Click here to view or download a PDF version (24k) of the Standing Orders of Rostrum Club 19.

Click here to view or download a PDF version (20k) of Notes for guidance/assistance of a Chairman at club meetings prepared by Colin Peacock.

Click here to go the website of David Price, a Perth (Western Australia) based member of Rostrum WA with extensive public speaking experience. David operates a business which provides consulting and training on meetings, meeting procedure, decision making, minutes and governance to organisations & companies as well as individuals.

Rostrum Western Australia

Click here to go to the main Rostrum WA website for information about the day, time and place of meetings of the other Rostrum clubs in WA.

Click here to go to the publications page on the Rostrum website, where you can download copies of Rostrum WA's monthly newsletter, the Rostrum Informer & also where you can purchase copies of publications such as Take the chair - an invaluable guide to chairing & conducting meetings & other publications to improve communication skills & confidence in spoken presentation.

One of the benefits of attending a Rostrum Club is to participate in a three staged comprehensive Personal Development Program (PDP) developed by Rostrum WA. Each stage consists of a series of tiered & sequential exercises which are described in detail in the Introductory, Intermediate and the Advanced PDP booklets.

The Introductory PDP consists of 12 sequential learning exercises which members can choose to undertake after joining a club.

1. About me (first speech)
2. Answering a pertinent question (impromptu speech 2-3 minutes)
3. Participating in a member (ie move a motion or amendment during a meeting)
4. Asking a pertinent question (PQ)
5. I feel strongly about speech (4 minute speech)
6. Reading aloud
7. Finding something to say (4 minute speech to persuade, entertain or inform an audience)
8. Finding something to say (5 minute speech)
9. Conducting a Rostrum meeting
10. Prepared speech (5 minutes)
11. Giving a demonstrtion
12. Prepared speech (6 minutes)

The Intermediate PDP is designed to increase a person's confidence by undertaking nine areas of further development.

1. Impromptu speech
2. Reading poetry
3. Chairing a Rostrum meeting
4. Presenting a persuasive speech (5 minutes)
5. Chairing a formal part of a Rostrum meeting
6. Present a training session to either inform or teach a skill
7. Present a competition speech
8. Present an entertaining speech
9. Lead a discussion (ie a group situation which does not have a structure of formal meeting).