NEWS from Tuesday Sept 30 2008 meeting

Yesterday we held the Humorous Speech Contest for RDU Toastmasters

 

We had 3 contestants and they all delivered some very funny speeches.

 

1.       Tom Swanson (Title: I fought the coleslaw and the coleslaw won!)

2.       Kevin Schnatter  (Title: An American vacation  Mishap!)

3.       Abdul Raouf (Title: Stories of a Little Boy!)

 

The winner and representing RDU Toastmasters in the Area 51 contest will be TOM SWANSON.

 

Please congratulate Tom on a very Humorous Speech.

 

Next week we will be back to normal agenda.

 

Thank you.

 

Frank Andrassy

 

Important Dates to Remember:

 

Wednesday Oct 1 2008  : Area 52 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest  at Eva Perry Library , Apex at 7:00pm

 

Thursday Oct 2 2008 : Area 51 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest  at Cameron Village Library in Raleigh

 

Wednesday Oct 15 2008 : Division E Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest  at Nortel in Voice Recognition Theatre

 

North Carolina District 37 Fall Conference Friday and Saturday Nov 7th and 8th

Hilton Hotel at Research Triangle Park
4810 Old Page Road [Page Rd. at I-40]
Durham, North Carolina 27709

November 7 & 8, 2008

NEWS from Tuesday Sept 16 2008 meeting

We had another great meeting on Tuesday September 16 2008
We had 15 attendees with 3 visitors, with one of them joining today.
The 3 speeches were given by Michelle (what is you learning style), Jeannie (First Impressions of America), and Kevin (Bohemian Folk Tale) with Jeannie voted top speech.
A great round of Table Topics led by Sue and Mary Anne was voted top Table Topics.

The evaluations were give by Sumit, Tony and Silvia with Sumit voted top evaluation

Grammarian was Jeri and Timer was Lisa.

NEWS NEWS NEWS

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 RDU TOASTMASTER WILL BE HAVING:

1. HUMOROUS SPEECH CONTEST ( ALL YOU NEED TO COMPETE IS TO BE IN GOOD STANDING (PAY YOUR DUES)).

Please email the officers if you plan on PARTICIPATING IN THE humorous speech CONTEST

2. EVALUATION CONTEST ( ALL YOU NEED TO COMPETE IS TO BE IN GOOD STANDING (PAY YOUR DUES)).

Please email the officers if you plan on PARTICIPATING IN THE Evaluation Contest.

3. THURSDAY OCT 2ND IS THE AREA (51) HUMOROUS AND EVALUATION SPEECH CONTEST (LOCATION TO BE DETERMINED)

(VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED)

4. WEDNESDAY OCT 15 WILL BE THE DIVISION E HUMOROUS AND EVALUATION SPEECH CONTEST AT NORTEL.

(VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED)

RDUTM Competent Communicator and Leadership Awards for Q2, 2008

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The formal awards ceremony was held on July 22, 2008 at Nortel Headquarters in Durham, NC.

From the News and Observer in Raleigh:

http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1189992-p2.html

“Jonathan Davies of Nortel, Archie Gunn of IBM and Frank Andrassy of Nortel, members of RDU Toastmasters, have earned Competent Communicator Awards from Toastmasters International. Kevin Schnatter of Centice and Frank Andrassy have each earned Competent Leadership Awards.”