Tom Collins

              Tom Collins Humarist and Philasapher THE SPEAKER WHO IS ASKED BACK

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Popular entertainer and inspirational speaker for Banquets, Conventions, Sales Conferences, Clubs and meetings of all types.

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Tom Collins is assistant to the publisher and daily columnist on the Kansas City Journal.  Six days a week his column called This One's On Me appears on the editorial page of that paper, and on the front page also appears his daily pithy, humorous comment on some phase of the day's news, headed Tom Collins Says.

In addition to these two editorial jobs, Mr. Collins is one of the most widely sought after-dinner and inspirational speakers in the country.  Every day for ten months of each year he makes at least one talk at a banquet, sales meeting, school or before some organization somewhere in the United States.

Last year he made more than 350 talks in forty states and two foreign countries.  In all he has delivered more than 2,000 talks before almost every type of audience.  It is significant that in more than 60 per cent of these cases he was asked back to do one or more additional talks.

Mr. Collins has been in the newspaper business since 1922, when he was graduated from the University of Kansas, majoring in Psychology.  After going through the regular news jobs of reporter, copy reader and city editor on the former Kansas City Journal-Post, he was made Sunday and Literary Editor of that paper more than 15 years ago.

During that time, for seven years, he was the conductor, or Skipper, of a widely read contributors' column known as Galley Three.  It was about ten years ago that Mr. Collins was asked to give his first talk, a book review before a woman's club.

His style and distinctive humor attracted the attention of other organizations and soon he was in demand by men's clubs for other subjects besides books and literature.  Quickly his fame spread out of his city and state until now there are fewer than half a dozen states in which he has not spoken.  More than half of all the states have had him for their bankers' conventions and he has addressed almost that many state lumber organizations.

He has averaged a talk a day for several seasons.  In 1937 he spent some time in Hollywood making movie shorts.  While there he addressed several large banquets and has since been recalled many times to talk at banquets of movie people.

Mr. Collins has been featured, under his own name, in a series of radio broadcasts over a national hookup for an eight-month duration.  On a ballot of newspaper publishers and editors in Kansas and Missouri he was selected as the outstanding humorous speaker of the two states.

Mr. Collins believes that speeches should be, first, entertaining and then have a concise but definite theme.  His aim is to have people laugh and wish for more when he has finished, and to leave them with thoughts and ideas both beneficial and unforgettable.

Many of his clients have used his services yearly for the last six years and others have him back twice every year.  He has some twenty subjects and always is at work on new talks.

His talks are changed to suit the occasion and are not just a series of Memorized speeches that have to be given in a special and unchanged manner.




LECTURE SUBJECTS (From 15 to 60 minutes)
In all of these talks the technique of humor is employed and anecdotes are used to put over the points of the theme.


Luck: It's Care and Feeding—Suitable for all types of meetings.
Theme—You can make your own luck by learning to see opportunity where other people pass it by because of thinking in a rut.  Good sales promotion talk.

Successful Worry—Suitable for all types of meetings.
Theme—Worry may either be used as a basis for progress and advancement or it may ruin living.  A cheerful, inspirational talk on a universal subject.  Good sales talk.

The Real Security—Excellent for all types of meetings.
Theme—Real security lies in keeping curiosity alive and in retaining enthusiasm for living and work.  Not a political talk in any sense.  Good for salesmen or any employees.

People Won't Like You If You Do—Usable for any type meeting, especially groups of men and women.
Theme—The importance of getting along with people and an amusing study in annoyance.  Fine public relations talk.

Do You Think or Believe?—Suitable for any audience.
Theme—People are held back by letting their prejudices and emotions decide problems for them instead of using their minds and thinking correctly.

Dust Off Your Sense of Humor—Universal appeal.
Theme—Discussion of laughter, its value and explanation of why we laugh as illustrated by many stories.  Plea for sense of humor and more laughter.  Has sound psychological basis as well as humor.

Seeing Is Not Believing—For all audiences.
Theme—Prejudice and wishful thinking destroy proper use of sense and get people into trouble.  Demonstration used to prove you can't believe your eyes.  Good sales talk.

Price Tags of Life—All types of meetings.
Theme—You can get anything you want if you are willing to pay for it and everything you get in life must be paid for.

The Changelessness of Change—For all sorts of meetings.
Theme—Plea for alert mindedness.  Whenever you stop advancing and learning you are through.

In Defense of Selfishness—Better for mixed or women's audiences.  Can be used for men only.
Theme—Other people can ruin your life if you don't believe enough in yourself to demand the right to fulfill what you believe is your destiny.

The Art of Reading—For women's clubs.  More on cultural side.
Theme—That reading is an art and many people do not know how to do it although they believe they do.

The Art of Conversation—Suitable for all types of audiences; better for mixed or women's groups.  Humorous but cultural also.
Theme—How most of us neglect the greatest bond we have with our fellow men and how a good conversational ability will pay dividends.





COMMENTS
We have had many good speakers in the past, but we all feel we can honestly say you are the best.—J. Willis Peterson, Secy., Galesburg, Ill., Chamber of Commerce.

Your corking talk yesterday gave all of us a real thrill.—W. H. Danforth, Ralston Purina Company, St. Louis, Mo.

I am sincere when I say your talk was the best I ever heard in my life.—Pat H. Simmons, Pres., Wichita Natl. Bank, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Thanks for delivering a bang up talk at our annual Christmas party.—John F. Austin, Exec. Secy., Sedgwick County Medical Society, Wichita, Kan.

Along with your masterful handling of the humor, there was plenty of food for thought.—Hale Bondurant, Vice Pres., Adv. Club of Des Moines.

We have rarely had a speaker on our campus who was heard with more interest nor one who submitted such a usable philosophy.—M. A. Nash, President, Oklahoma College for Women.

The talk you gave was just the type to cause a bunch of business men to forget their business cares and relax.—W. G. Chesnut, Mgr., Western Adjustment and Inspection Company, Kansas City, Missouri.

You scored a tremendous hit with our club.  The occasion is being talked of as one of the most delightful evenings in its history.—J. J. Hartnett, Pres., Omaha Traffic Club.

Your talk at our annual farmers' dinner was a 'knock-out'.—J. C. Mohler, Secy.  Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Topeka, Kansas.

Your rapid-fire stories, each new and to the point, kept our delegates on their mental toes every moment.—W. A. Philpott, Jr., Secy., Texas Bankers Association, Dallas, Texas.

I heard many fine comments concerning your talk.  It is not so easy to hold an audience such as you had the other night.—M. W. Jencks, Topeka, Kan., Pres., Int'l Association of Fairs and Expositions.

Many of our members congratulated me personally on having secured such a splendid speaker and I know everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.—H. P. Pratt, Pres., Iowa Association of Insurance Agents.

I was Director of the Speakers Bureau for the Democratic National Committee last fall and want to assure you I could easily have used two dozen speakers like you.—Paul C. Aiken, Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., Topeka, Kansas.

Many compliments have come to us over the choice we displayed in selecting you to give the single performance at our banquet.—Don E. Warrick, Sec., Indiana Bankers Association.

We probably received a thousand compliments on our program and by far the greater part of these were directly centered about your address.—J. L. Hogin, Mo-Kan-Ark Kiwanis Regional Convention.

Your talk was one of the finest pieces of entertainment I have enjoyed in many a day.—M. Finkelstein, Mgr., Fox Midwest Corporation.

Tom Collins proved a capital entertainer and kept his hearers convulsed with laughter.—The Arkansas Banker.


Collins observations are of such an original turn and his jokes of so fresh a vintage that even newspaper men were kept in an uproar.—
Muskogee (Okla.) Daily Phoenix.

Those in attendance at our meeting have never stopped talking about the way you put over your talk.—James G. Callahan, Vice-Pres., Missouri Association of Life Underwriters.

I have never heard anything comparable to the subtle and naive humor displayed by the inimitable and lovable Tom Collins.—Charles B. Gerth, New Orleans.

I didn't know a man could be so funny and at the same time carry a point in everything he said.—Charles M. Hilleary, Hutchinson, Kansas.

Tom Collins has addressed eight group meetings of the Missouri Bankers Association in the last two weeks and his addresses were most enthusiatically received.—W. F. Keyser, Secretary, Missouri Bankers Association.

Tom Collins was everything you said he was and more too.—C. Edgar Goyette, Secy., Tucson Chamber of Commerce.



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