District 77

Proudly Serving Alabama, NW Florida, & SE Mississippi

Author: Kelley Terry

  • “Speakers Need Feedback”

    For my second speech I selected a topic near and dear to my heart, music. Music is truly a universal language and brings diverse people together. A familiar melody inspiresunderstanding immediately. In my Ice Breaker I shared that I really liked funk music.Subsequently, I built upon that fact about myself by revealing that I considered James Brown to be the father and king of funk music.  In the speech…

  • “A Reluctant Speaker’s Journey”

    I grew up in Birmingham Alabama in the 1970s and 1980s.  Fun fact – I know what an eight-track tape is and remember when they were state of the art technology.  As a child of the 70s I love funk music, and was more interested in listening to music than picking up a book.  However, my…