Meeting Recap: September 15, 2012

HUMOROUS SPEECH AND TABLE-TOPIC CONTEST

For the Humorous speech contest, we had three contestants- Ryoko, Pearl and Jocelyn.

For the Table Topics contest, we had two contestant- Bhushan and Issa.

The order of the speakers in both contests was chosen by means of lottery when the judges went out of the room for their pre-contest briefing.

The order for the Humorous speeches was
1- Ryoko with her speech "My Multi-cultural Experiences"
2- Pearl with her speech "You don't need a Plant to be a Gardener"
3- Jocelyn with her speech "My War on Chips"

The Table Topics theme was "Admiration" and the speaker's order was
1- Bhushan
2- Issa

After the contestants were interviewed and judges' votes were counted, we finally found out our contest winners.

The Final Rankings

Humorous Speech Contest
1.Jocelyn
2. Ryoko
3. Pearl

Table Topic Contest
1. Bhushan
2. Issa

A big Thank You to:
- Our contestants for participating and making this contest a success.

- Our members and guests who gave our contestants a supportive audience.

- All our judges
Jeff as Chief Judge for Humorous Speech Contest
Patricia as Chief Judge from COMET for Table Topics Contest
Mike
Niel from Trillium Toastmasters
Stephen
Jocelyn

Congratulations to our First Place Winners- Jocelyn and Bhushan.

We wish the both of you the best of luck when you represent our club in the Area Contest, which will be held on Monday, October 15 from 6pm to 9pm at the Mississauga Central Library.

Club members are welcome to attend the Area Contest to support both our winners and to experience the contest.

 

BUSINESS SESSION FROM THIS MEETING 

- We cancelled the meeting on October 6th, 2012 due to lack of meeting space. The Library will be closed for renovations.

Meeting Recap: September 1, 2012

Even though it was a long weekend, members still took the time to attend this meeting and make it a success.

SPEAKERS

We had three wonderful prepared speeches.

Ryoko gave us a fun and memorable Icebreaker speech. (Speech no. 1 from the Competent Communication Manual)

Tiffany gave us an educational and informative speech about the benefits of Green Choices. (Speech no. 2 from the Competent Communication Manual)

Raj gave us an interesting and persuasive speech where he assumed the role of President of a Rail company. (Speech no 3. from the Advanced Communication Manual)

 

BUSINESS SESSION FROM THIS MEETING 

-  Last year's Club President, Jocelyn, informed us about the two awards our club won this year and presented us with the two blue ribbons.

*Select Distinguished Club Award
*Beat the Clock Award

- We discussed the 2012 Humorous and Table Topic contest which was being held on September 15.