Rostrum Australia is an association of Australian public speaking clubs, founded on 21 July 1930. It is the main continuation of the original Rostrum club founded in Manchester, United Kingdom on 21 July 1923. This club's other surviving descendants are "Rochdale Rostrum", a Rostrum club in the Greater Manchester area founded in 1978; and the presently dormant "Wellington Rostrum Club" in New Zealand.
Greendale Farm Mottram St Andrew, Yew Tree under which The Rostrum Club was Founded
Rostrum Club 1, July 1931 Pilgrimage to Speaker's Rock, Back Row: s c Robertson, C M Purnell, J G Hardman, Stuart McPhee, NC Burgess, Hilton Gordon, R Noble, Robert Swainson, A C Stiles, Edgar Barratt, Fred Seasons. Front Row: Jack Caffin, Charles Claiton, Alan Crook
AGH Rostrum Constitution Changi – Page 1
Rostrum Voice of Youth 1976 Advertisement
Public speaking, also called oratory, is the act or skill of delivering speeches on a subject before a live audience.
The Orator, c. 100 BCE, an Etrusco-Roman bronze sculpture depicting Aule Metele (Latin: Aulus Metellus), an Etruscan man wearing a Roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an inscription in the Etruscan alphabet.
Aristotle
Malala Yousafzai speaking
