The Poetical Story of Jane S Career As a Public Speaker

THE PRINCESS-SPEAKER

The poetical story of Jane’s Career as a Public Speaker

THE PRINCESS-SPEAKER

At a certain point in her magnificent teaching career,

thePrincess' childhood love of writing did reappear,

She wrote the famous "Rights for Children", as you may know,

and then "Hector's Escapades" also began to flow.

Then followed "The Mother Tree" and "The Third Seed"',

And so many others that you really should read.

But please don't think that she was through,

for Jane would now evolve into something else brand new.

Many aspiring writers saw what Jane could do,

and they urged her to teach them "How To".

It was then that the Thompson Conference Center

at UT invited her to give some Seminars.

There would be three days of instruction on writing,

and how to get published; it was thoroughly exciting.

For her talks at the Center, she was praised to the skies.

Everyone simply loved her; I'll tell you no lies.

The talks were so popular they were repeated every year

until almost everyone had a chance to hear.

Jane also was giving her seminars at home

for additional groups who wanted to come.

The talks were so practical, very hands-on;

at the end they would mail in their manuscripts, hard-won.

One such group was called the PyroWriters.

These people were exceptionally fervent fighters.

They really wanted to publish their own stories!

And they realized this, to their well-deserved glories.

As they published "Come to the Gathering" and held a book-signing.

It was quite a lovely event, with a silver lining.

They sold lots of books and could now rightfully claim

that they were published authors -- they had the flame!!

At library conferences, state and national,

Jane was there and ever so rational;

Giving book-signings and writing tutorials,

she laid herself out, for the children she's a memorial.

At the Texas Book Festival she was a fixture;

emotions about Jane were never a mixture.

She was totally loved and highly respected,

This is not just my opinion that I've arbitrarily injected.

Here's a final note for the information seeker:

Jane was not a natural-born speaker.

When I first met her she could not speak before a crowd.

She'd choke up and could barely speak a word out loud.

It was her courage and character and faith in God

That made her a great speaker both here and abroad.

Princess-Teacher-Author-Speaker; how did she do it?

I'd tell you for sure if I only knew it!

COME TO THE GATHERING

BY THE PYROWRITERS