2012 Speech Workshop Schedule
“Shoot-Out at the IESA Corral” Friday, Sept. 14, 2012
8:45- 9:00 am- Howdy, Partner! Tie your horse to the fence of the Radisson Ranch and mosey on in. (Check your guns at the door and no spitting allowed in carpeted areas.) Sign your “X” and you’re set for a wild and woolly day of speakin’ about speakin’.
9:00- 9:30 am- Head Wrangler Nicole with the Unpronounceable last name will clang the bell and gather us together for a bit of “Howdy” and general conflab. Word has it, she might have a couple of awards in her holster.
9:30- 9:35 am- Hold your horses! It’s time for a break! High tail to the nearest restroom and ladies, beware of the cactus.
9:35- 10:35 am- Roundup I Who says there ain’t nothin’ new on the Ponderosa? Dead-Eye Steve Williams and Half-Dead Ken Bradbury are gonna show you a brand new event to be rustled out to selected contest sights this year. It’s called “Team Improv.” …sort of like team-roping without the blood and cow piles.
10:35- 10:45 am- Break Number Two! (For those of you who didn’t do number one.)
10:45- 11:45- Roundup II Hey! It’s show time at Long Branch! Some of the rip-roarin’-est little cowpokes in the state of Illinois will show their stuff right in the middle of main street! The future on display! Small Group- Chatham Glenwood Duet- Chatham Glenwood Solo Acting- Jacksonville Our Saviour Storytelling- Jacksonville Our Saviour
‘Tain’t always easy to host a contest, but the slick-toned tongues of Wild Mary Nelson, Calamity Chris Coons, and Six-gun Stacey Worrell will show you how to do it with minimum loss of life and limb. Judge Roy Bean is dead, but we’ve dug up another iconic judge of IESA speech to give you a taste of what it’s like from the judge’s side of the bench. Roger Green (or his ghost, depending on his condition that day) will tell you the tales.
11:45- 1:00- Ring the bell! Clang the Gong! It’s Chow Time, partner! Mosey on out to the chuck wagon and don’t get splattered by the beans…they’re hot. We ask that you sit with the cowpokes from your neck of the state for a bit of plottin’ and plannin’ this year’s speech drive.
1:00- 2:00 pm- Roundup III Judge Roger will once again hold court on lookin’ at life through a speech judge’s eyes. This session may be shortened as he usually naps at 2. Sometimes you need to just sit back and take a look at the whole ranch. Veteran Wrangler Starla Yelm will give you an overview of all the IESA events…bring you up to stuff, so to speak. Dead-Eye Steve Williams is a master at avoiding the dreaded stampede. Those dog-goned doggies need to know where to go, dag-nab-it! He’ll show you how to block your young cowpokes with minimum damage to the woodwork.
2:00- 2:05- As the rancher said to his prize bull: “This is your last chance to hit the stalls.”
2:05- 3:05- Roundup IV So you’re wanderin’ loose and all alone. ..your first year of coachin’, friendless and forlorn upon the wild prairie of speech competition. Well partner, you’ve got a friend in the smilin’ face of Tim Chipman, head wrangler of one of the state’s finest speech programs. Round ‘em all up! As our cattle drive ends today, two experienced hands, Shotgun Shayla Grantham and Gunslinger Ginny Moore will sit us all down for a fireside chat, doin’ their best to cover whatever idle questions might still be floppin’ around inside your skull.
Happy Trails!