http://localhost:8080/james-humes Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:29:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/james-humes#comment-65203 Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:21:16 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=10346#comment-65203 Jamie Humes was a scholar and a romantic at heart. He is missed.

]]> http://localhost:8080/james-humes#comment-59278 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:56:51 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=10346#comment-59278 I had the singular good fortune to take two speechwriting classes with him in graduate school. To this day he remains the most superlative instruction in public speaking and public communication I have ever received. His memory is a blessing.

]]> http://localhost:8080/james-humes#comment-53454 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:23:25 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=10346#comment-53454 Belated thanks for this wonderful tribute. I was very fortunate in the late-1980s to take instruction from Mr. Humes. His instructions were: 1) speak or write for impact, and 2) when doing an introduction, don’t recite the speaker’s resume….but tell the audience why they ought to want to hear the speaker. Mr. Humes made a significant impact on me, and I regret my failure to ever properly thank him.
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Thank-you. I remember, and try to follow, his wise advice about introductions. He had many virtues. —RML

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