Rachel Ray and Toastmasters Cook Together

On this morning Rachel Ray’s show a
young lady needed some help in public
speaking and one of the items that she
was given to do was participate in
Toastmasters.

NEWS from Tuesday September 24 2008 Meeting

We have postpone the Humorous and Evaluation Speech contest until Sept 30

. We had 4 contestants that were pulled away at the last moment.This week we had two speeches this week, one by Alan Happ (A fine walking stick) and Mary Anne Gucciardi (Hidden Immigrant) both good speeches and both tied for best speech.

Evaluations were done by Sylvia Vaughan and Michelle Yuan with Michelle voted best evaluation.

Table Topics was lead by Alan and we had quite a few interesting and challenging topics (Unusual pet, Bird, Tears, Unusual Fear, Left Handed stuff and what would you do if you didn’t”t need sleep), Sylvia was vote best Table Topics.

Important Dates to Remember:

Tuesday Sept 30 2008 : RDU Toastmaster Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest

Wednesday Oct 1 2008 : Area 52 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest at at Eva Perry Library in Apex

Thursday Oct 2 2008 : Area 51 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest at Cameron Village Library in Raleigh at 7:00pm

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
Program Highlights:
Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest
Friday night Roast of Past District Governor
Toastmasters Bookstore
Nine Educational Programs
Awards ceremony for 2008 Distinguished Clubs, Areas and Divisions