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My frustration in watching worthy folk make blithering idiots of themselves
in public moved me to found The Buckley School of Public Speaking.
F. Reid Buckley
Strictly Speaking
Public speaking school draws international visitors
In a historic building tucked quietly experience and often marvel that such a world
away just off a busy thoroughfare in downtown class educational experience can be found in this
Camden, an elegant and seemingly vanishing skill small southern town.
is alive and well -- and available for those willing The school might serve a smaller niche market,
to seek it. but it is an important ambassador for the city
The Buckley School of Public Speaking, founded of Camden. Its diverse roster of clients includes
in 1988 by the late F. Reid Buckley, is another gem executives from both public and private sectors
of Camden hidden in plain sight. While it is no such as Capital One, MasterCard, Microsoft,
secret, not that many people know about it. Kettering Health Network, Coca-Cola, Michelin,
However, those who do speak highly of the Philip Morris and the U.S. Department of Defense.
By Jim Tatum
52 / Camden ~ Classically Carolina