Toastmasters toast to 90 years of speaking in public

Anthony Garvey went nervously to his first Toastmasters meeting, but now he’s happy to coach others

WHEN I told a friend I was going to a Toastmaster meeting, he put his pint down and shook his head disapprovingly.

“They’re all a bunch of fuddy-duddies who play crown-green bowls,” he said. “You’ll be bored senseless. You won’t last a wet week.”