Sent 21 Feb 96
For April 26 Canton Country Club 40-60 Principals Cluster Meeting Me: 9 a.m. 40 min? Stress speech
Mr. Gary Collins Monmoth High School 325 W 1st Ave Monmoth, Illinois 61462
Mr Collins,
Good talking to you today. I once lost my Masonic ring at the bottom of a pond or lake or some sort of large water hole at the Canton Country Club. I somehow found the ring so I imagine I’ll find the Country Club again. For a title...uh...how about If you Think Stress is Killing You, Just Think What You’re Doing to Your Kids and Your Secretary.
............or................. It’s Killed off more Administrators Than The Board of Ed....Stress!
................or.................. (if the topic must be “heady” for them to get the day off) Managing Stress (an awful title...stresses you just to read it.)
Anyway, for such a group as yours, I think I can make Stress a both entertaining and enlightening topic.
Fees: I’d like you to pay my sub for that half day. Frankly, I don’t know how much that is, but I’ll find out. Anything above and beyond that I’d like to have donated to Green Pastures Christian Campground ar rural Meredosia. I give all my speaking money to this camp. In the summer we run a Christian Peforming Arts Camp for youngsters and these donations help to keep the cost so all can afford to go. Whatever you designate would be fine. If you’d like to just write a check, I’ll divide up the booty between Triopia and Green Pastures. Whatever. Biography: Choose from among any of the following flim-flam. Remember, how much can a Bob Crowe recommendation really be worth? Ken Bradbury
23 years teaching speech, English, Creative Arts, and Quest at Triopia Jr-Sr High. Author of over 50 full-length plays and musicals. Author of over 100 speech contest one-acts, duets, monologues and chorale readings. As of 1995, the most performed author in speech contests in the United States. Author of the book, The Coonridge Digest, published by the Consortium Publishing Company. Author of the weekly newspaper column, The Coonridge Digest, for a collection of papers in Illinois. Winner of the Associated Press Award for Best Humor Column in Illinois. Winner of the Lincoln Library Award for the play, The Shadow of Giants. Member of the Illinois Elementary School Association’s speech advisory committee. Songwriter for the Christian musical group, Shiloh, who have authored five tapes: Shiloh, Don’t Nobody Sing me No Sad Songs about my Jesus, Like a Child, Bomp me on the head again Dear Jesus, and Lift Jesus Higher. Founder and director of the Green Pastures Camp for the Performing Arts. Theatrical director for Triopia High School, the Dutch Sometimes Theatre, the Jacksonville Theatre Guild, the Pittsfield Theatre Guild. Winner of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, presented by The Country Companies. Author of nine children’s musicals. Western Illinois University Friends of the Arts Award. Bagpiper with the Ansar Highlanders....cute knees.
Looking forward to meeting with your group on 26 April 96.
Sincerely,
Ken Bradbury Box 173 Arenzville, IL 62611 Home phone: 217 997-5521 School: 217 457-2281 Fax:217 457-2277 E-Mail: kbradbur@pop.directnet.net