OK Speech and Debate: Tomorrow!

EPIKOS Christmas Party (with Italian Potluck) and T-shirts!

CHRISTMAS PARTY: Our students are hosting the EPIKOS Christmas Party. The students will serve as the MC's and several will present examples of their work for all to enjoy. TOMORROW at MRCC, use the Guest Entrance (same entrance we use for classes). 6:00-8:30 pm, no classes tomorrow, bring your potluck and see you at 6! Silent Auction items have been generously donated by local businesses to support our speech and debate club. Please consider purchasing one of these items to fulfill a gift item on your Christmas list and support our club. If you have any questions or need additional information about the Christmas party, please email Becky Brittain at rogbeckb@gmail.com

T-SHIRTS: T-shirts for our upcoming debate are ready to be ordered. To insure we have time to get them BEFORE the OK tournament, sign up ends TOMORROW, 12/18. These are turquoise with white printing. We had a special request this year to use the brand of t-shirts that LifeChurch uses...so that's what we did! $15 each. Wear them Wednesday evening, Jan 7, to connect at the Shawnee Debate during registration. Order form for T-shirts below! We can't wait to see you ALL there!

The fear of public speaking...

“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing a farmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as
the train goes by? How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in a back-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines or automobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see the machines?
Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attain
freedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.” ― Dale Carnegie

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Tomorrow!