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...
Area 72 Fall Contest The 2017 Area 72 Fall Speech Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests held on September 28, 2017 was Outstanding and FUN! As Area 72 Director, I am grateful for the contribution from all four clubs in the area: AT&T Irving NOC, Barrels and Banter, MLCC Toastmasters, and Successful Speakers Club. I am...
In beautiful Vancouver, Canada, it was the morning of August 24th, 2017–the day I would give the biggest speech presentation of my life. I had prepared for months and the day had finally arrived. I felt overwhelmed and incredibly excited! Advancing to the Semifinals my first year of competing in the International contest was surreal...
The morning of August 24th crackled with excitement as we watched Hannah compete with the best speakers from nine other Districts around the globe. Hannah was amazing as she taught the audience about the meaning of the words sympathy and empathy as well as the circumstances that made those concepts real to her. The live performance...
