Club meeting with Speaker: Teddy Spha Palasthira - The story of a Siamese born in London
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20 Jun 2023 |
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 Patong Beach
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Dear Members and Guests:
You are cordially invited to RCoPB weekly dinner meeting at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Patong Beach. Our speaker for Tuesday, 20th June is Mr. Teddy Spha Palasthira with the topic of "The story of a Siamese born in London.” He is one of a high-profile speakers that we are fortunate to have.
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Teddy Spha Palasthira was born in London. He has served in the Thai diplomatic service, completed a long career in advertising, was a visiting professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, and is an honorary Barrister-at-Law at Lambs Chambers, Middle Temple, London, from where he graduated a long time ago.
His published work includes Addresses, a personal memoir of wartime England and post-war France and Italy (2010); The Last Siamese, sketches of twelve unusual Thai figures in the last century (2013); and The Siamese Trail of Ho Chi Minh, the story of Ho`s journey in Siam in 1928/29 (2015).
During his advertising career Teddy ran Ogilvy & Mather and Dentsu Young & Rubicam in Bangkok, won a Clio creative award from New York City, was a visiting professor at Missouri School of Journalism and, in 2007, was appointed Media Adviser to The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand.
He is a former President of the Thai-Italian Chamber of Commerce and the Dante Alighieri Cultural Association, and a former Board Member of the Siam Society and the Franco-Thai Chamber of Commerce. He is a Grand Officer (First Class) of the Italian Republic (2004).
Teddy Spha Palasthira is known for his acting role in movies The Cave (2019), The Red Iron Door (2016), and The Last Executioner (2014).
SIAMESE ANGLOPHILE
An innocent’s journey from Britain to America via 12 schools, 5 countries and dozens of jobs
What was life like for a Thai boy growing up in England in the middle of the last century? Beginning with his early days at an English boarding school, Siamese Anglophile (Talisman Publishing, 2022) is the story of a Siamese born in London and nicknamed ‘Teddy’ by his English nanny, told through a variety of jobs from sorting the mail in London Post Offices to fruit-picking in an Essex farm to performing as an extra in James Bond films in Pinewood, he describes a way of life that has gone forever. It also describes a voyage of discovery in search for his roots. The problem of continually being uprooted and having to adjust to schools (twelve) in different countries (five) and having to learn different languages and cultures, is told with empathy and good humour. The story moves from London of the Swinging 60s through to his arrival in Thailand totally unsure about what to do for the rest of his life. He recounts his initial attempts to become a career diplomat, and eventually landing in the advertising business for the next 24 years, he finally ends up teaching the subject at an American university. Teddy’s plain language and simple descriptions of life at the time, combined with the colourful variety of his travels and entertaining experiences in a diversity of jobs, brings to the reader the immediacy of the past, peppered with anecdotal wit and historical vignettes.
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Come join the meeting and learn more about what we do at the Rotary Club of Patong Beach. Registration cost is 500 THB including buffet dinner. Local beer is 110 THB nett.
Service Above Self,
Best Wanamakok
President 2022-23
Rotary Club of Patong Beach