Club 19 was a public speaking club which was and still continues as part of a national Rostrum movement which operates in other Australian States and Territories. The Rostrum public speaking movement in WA is now operated as part of the Rostrum Clubs of WA (Inc) framework.
Key Facts and Highlights
Club 19 was established on 10 October 1963. Click here to view or download to view or download a PDF version (626k) of its Certificate of Affiliation
Rostrum Club 19 celebrated its meeting number 2000 on 22 June 2007. Click here to view or download to view or download a PDF version (420k) of the program
Rostrum Club 19 celebrated its 50th anniversary year in 2013 with a meeting on 18 October 2013. Click here to view or download to view or download a PDF version (676k) of the program
The WA Rostrum Arthur Garvey Speaker of the Year Competition was won by club member Amber Anderson in 2008.
Club 19 won the Rostrum WA Recruitment Award for the club which recruited the most members in 2008
Club 19 won the Rostrum WA Bronze Medallion for long service awarded to Dorothy Psaila-Savona
Colin Peacock was elevated to Freeman in November 2015
Greg Swensen won the Arthur Garvey Impromptu Speaker of the Year 2015 competition in November 2015
Club 19 won the Alan Crook Award for both 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.
The WA Rostrum Arthur Garvey Speaker of the Year Competition was won by club member Rob Huth in 2017
Rob Gates was elevated to Freeman in November 2017
Patricia Watts was awarded a Rostrum WA Bronze Medallion for her contribution to Rostrum activities in November 2017 for her contribution to Rostrum activities, including –
- organising the 2016 Arthur Garvey Speaker of the Year competition
- organising the 2017 Sidney Wicks national public speaking competition
- agreeing to organise Rostrum WA’s 70th anniversary celebration in 2018
- Chair the Committee to conduct the 2018 Australian Rostrum in Perth
Arthur Garvey Speak of the Year Competition
In November 2017 Club 19’s finalist was Rob Huth won the Rostrum WA speaker of the year award, the Arthur Garvey competition.
In 2015 Club 19’s finalist was Viv Ishak, a remarkable achievement given that she had been a member for less than a year.
In 2008 the Club’s finalist was Amber Anderson, won the competition who then President, Terry Cunningham, noted that –
“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 2008.”
David Carlson Most Improved Speaker Award
Each year Club 19 presents this unique within-club award to recognise from recently joined members a person who has demonstrated notable progress and improvement in their confidence and ability with respect to their scheduled public speaking and presentations at Club meetings over the year, for the period 1997 to 2016.
- 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 and Malcolm Roberts
- 2006: Sandra Green
- 2007: Julie Payne
- 2008: Dan Soanes & Michael Musgrave
- 2009: Samantha May
- 2010: Natalia Gavrilova
- 2011: Melody Hau
- 2012: Franco Raccuia
- 2013: Katie Law
- 2014: Kaz Bannan
- 2014: Viv Isak
- 2015: Caroline Bannon
- 2016: Karyn Cooper
Club 19 Speaker of the Year winners
Club 19 conducts it’s own internal club speaker of the year award. Here are the winners for the period 1990 to 2016 –
- 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)
- 2010: Jason Lim & Avinash Kamath (novice)
- 2011: Sue White
- 2012: Jason Lim
- 2013: Claire Hamersley
- 2013: Kaz Bannan
- 2013: Claire Hamersley
- 2014: Caroline Bannon
- 2015: Rob Gates & Shane Dowling
- 2016: Lauren O’Neill
Club 19 Life Members
The club awarded life membership to –
- John Ffarrington
- Ron Jeffrey
- Colin Peacock
- Dorothy Psaila-Savona
- Greg Warren