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Entertaining
Speaker and Novelist now retired and residing in
South Australia, Stan gives talks regularly to Rotary,
Probus and other social clubs and has earned a reputation
as a most humorous and entertaining speaker.
In his speech based on his book, "One Hell
of a Life" Stan talks about being born in
India in 1920 to eccentric parents. He claims
he was a "backward" child (probably
autistic, 20 years before the medial profession
had recognised autism as a medical condition)
The Indian servants nicknamed him Buddhu,
an Indian word that meant idiot, moron or nincompoop.
At the age of 4 he could not talk and was sent
to a boarding school on the assumption that, when
the other children bullied him he would have to
learn to stand up for himself by screaming and
shouting and articulating words – thus learn
to talk. It worked like a charm!
Stan, educated in a college run by Belgian Jesuits,
later attended North Point, a famous boarding
college in the Himalayan Mountains, becoming Dux
of the College. During WW2 he was a Captain in
the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army. He
became Adjutant of the Prince of Wales Royal Indian
Military College and the 6th Royal Battalion (Scinde).
Eventually Stan left India and migrated to Australia.
Stan is available to present to your club or
corporate group within Adelaide and country areas,
and requests 24 hours notice.
Stan has been a Toastmaster member for 10 years
and a member of Rostrum. Over the last 6 years,
Stan has delivered a total of 400 talks about
his life in India. A popular speaker, getting
many referrals by "word-of-mouth" he
is renowned as a Humorous and Entertaining speaker
Contact Stan
For more information visit
users.chariot.net.au/~tridon/
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