Why Have Heroes? Who needs heroes?

   Who wants to hear about a hero? We teach children about a hero. Bruce and the spider on determination
   As a teacher and speaker, I started this list to help myself write opening speeches, to help myself as a speaker at a speakers' training club. (I am a former presidents of Harrovian Toastmasters in London, England.}
   Then I thought I should share my research with other writers and readers so they could enjoy the stories, benefit from my research and share my enthusiasm. This list should be useful to you if you are ever a toastmasters, president, chairman, after dinner speaker, or motivational speaker at a meeting. I am looking for the sort of story you might hear at school, as a student, on the radio or TV.    
   But even when you are between jobs, looking for work, not yet working, or retired, you might enjoy the stories. The characters are people you would like to hear about if you were in the audience or listening or watching.

Remembering This Month's Heroes

How do you find a theme for a meeting, the speech to open a meeting, or an impromptu speech?
Two or three subjects are obvious. New Year for January. Love for Valentine's Day and February. July and August holidays. December Christmas.

12 months of Celebration
Jan: Snow: Snow White; Robbie Burns; Auschwitz liberated. Braille.
Feb Love the light:Valentine's Day. Abraham Lincoln; Washington; Edison light - inventors day.
Mar Phone Ireland: St Patrick Mar 17; all March in Japan. Bell phones.
Apr Shakespeare.
May Day. Florence Nightingale to the rescue.
Jun Anne Frank and Marilyn Monroe.
Jul Movie maker Goldwyn and Molly Brown who survived the Titanic.
Aug
Sept Write home - Biro.
Oct Discover America and your type. Columbus. Myers Briggs.
Nov How cold in November? Celcius.
Dec In cold Dec celebrate Xmas with champagne. Birdseye frozen food and Veuve Cliquot Champagne. St Stephen.