Masonic After Dinner Speaking: How to Prepare & Deliver Speeches

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Your audience immediately imagines Christopher Columbus standing up at the Festive Board just like you are doing.

By these words he brought into the minds of his listeners the words of Lincoln and then contrasted them with the reality of today. Brethren, I note that this Lodge places the tracing boards in the centre of the Lodge and not at the Junior Warden’s pedestal. However, to be entertaining and amusing does not mean that you must shower them with irrelevant jokes (often in bad taste) in the misguided belief that after-dinner speaking is about telling funny stories.

His knowledge and expertise is now available for all to benefit from with the publication of this book.

The amazing thing about the human brain is that it starts working as soon as you are born … and stops working as soon as you stand up to make a speech. You can make leadership a theme, especially if the Lodge is doing very well with its charity or has held a particularly successful event.

Did you know, for example, that Columbus actually set out to find the route to Cathay – India and China?