the freckled-face red-haired boy who had earlier ingratiated himself made a further attempt to secure an elevated position in the organization by remarking that , while none of us could of course envisage the demise of our clever and pretty current chair girl , it would be perhaps be prudent to cater for unforeseen future changes and change the wording to chair person , and he terminated his discourse by flashing his silver-tinged dental appendages at the entire assembly .