11.   Vermeil tried to stay busy this off-season appearing at banquets, charity events and making paid speaking appearances.

12.   Years ago, the American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell made a speaking appearance at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

13.   A light morning snow forced the president to abandon plans to helicopter from his new home in Chappaqua to Manhattan for speaking appearances.

14.   Mercer and Curry expect to spend the next year doing speaking appearances, hoping to encourage others to go into missionary work.

15.   Reno has been making speaking appearances as she ponders whether to run for Florida governor.