Cautions - while introducing speakers

The introduction first must state the speaker’s name, initial, and last name-all properly pronounced of course; his business connection or official title; and then the exact subject of his speech.

After that you might add how he qualifies as an authority, but don’t overplay his possibilities. It can be tough to live up to an extravagant introduction. Just because he mixes a little wit with wisdom, don’t call him a humorist because, if his jokes don’t jell, everybody’s disappointed. It is of prime importance to pronounce the speaker’s name properly; nothing is more pleasant to the human ear than a man’s own name. Nothing likewise is more embarrassing to the person who makes the introduction, than mispronouncing the first, last, or middle name. The most quoted misnomer bust occurred on a national radio hookup when a speaker, after a long and intimate description, introduced the speaker as “Hoobert Heaver.”

Shakespeare’s Romeo was in an ardent mood when he called a name a lot of nonsense, saying that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. We should bear in mind that swains are apt to talk out of turn, and a name may mean a great deal.

In the world of manufacturing, a name identifies the trials and tribulations necessary to promote a product by a trade title that’s attractive to the public. In that same way, a name marks the difference between you and me and a nameless nomad.

Place names attach special significance to a site. When old time “Billygoat Hill” was subdivided, the lots were a drug on the market until they were glamorized as “Angora Heights.” Even earlier the old settlers were satisfied with “Whiskey Creek,” which the W.C.T.U. viewed with disdain. “Sunnybrook” compromised that clash as a pretty name for a pretty brook (as well as a famous brand!)

Similarly “Hangtown” mellowed into “Placerville”; “Bedbug” became “Paradise”; and a young Indian petitioned the Court to let “Screeching Train Whistle” be shortened to “Toots.” When his cousin announced the birth of a second son, he was responsible for “Sheboygan.”

A strong example of the importance of a name came to light when a Fuller Brush man muffed his lines; instead of addressing the woman who opened the door as the “lady of the house,” he called her the “house madam”!

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