By Joyce Trimble, Contest Coordinator One word, in and of itself, is just an utterance. When you combine singular utterances, they become a living thought and information worthy to be shared. Such is the case of words given me by fellow Toastmasters about our upcoming speech contest season. Together these words tell the story of why District 25...
By Elizabeth Gray, District Chief Judge We had two amazing contests this past weekend at the District 25 Annual Conference. On Friday night, Table Topics contestants were asked about the most common misconceptions about the place they were born. We heard about places ranging from India to Portland (Indiana, that is), and of course Texas...
By Diana Patton, DTM, District Webmaster It’s been an exciting contest season. Club winners moved to Area contests then winners from 35 Area Table Topics and International Contests completed at the seven Division level contest. Our Division contest winners will compete during the Annual District Conference. Friday night May 3, is the Table Topics contest....
By Elizabeth Gray, District Chief Judge We have come to the end of the fall Humorous Speech Contests. Due to a change in Toastmasters International rules, we will no longer have a district-level fall speech contest. Spring contest season will return to two contests with competition through District level. Spring 2019 we will have Table...
By Diana Patton Thanks to everyone that takes pictures of special club, area, division and district events and provides them to me for creating a photo album for each event. Years ago a friend of my daughter who was an college exchange student from England would say over and over again “Time for a photo”...
By Jamie Pickering, Program Quality Director Have you heard? Contests are looking a little different this Fall season in District 25. This season we will crown 7 Division Winners of the Humorous Speech Contest! Before we do that, the Area Contests will take place in groups of 2 or 3, still announcing a winner for...
by Marcheta Gardner Toastmasters and friends, what a great time we had at the Tall Tales and International Speech Contests on May 4th and 5th! Snow sharks, dragons and alligators . . . OH MY! What do these have in common they were the topics of the first, second and third place winners of the...
In an active and involved Toastmasters District, I want to take a few moments and share with you the activities of Areas of 44 and 45. Encompassed within these two districts are clubs from Burleson/Cleburne to the city of Waco. This is a wide area. More importantly, these districts include some great Toastmasters. One such...
by Michael Duckworth Area 53 Tall Tales and International Speech Contest As a new (less than one year) member of Toastmasters, I was honored to be asked to chair the Area 53 Tall Tales and International Speech Contest on March 10th. There are many details involved in presenting a successful speech contest. However, the outline...
The evening started with a group that was inquisitive about the coming event! Although they had competed at the Area and Division levels, the District level brought about a sense of cautious optimism. The first contest was for Speech Evaluation. We proceeded through the briefings without a hitch. The contest started on time… something we...
