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Capitol Toastmasters
Quarterly Newsletter September 2010
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| Tim Owens |
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| Shana Knox |
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Humorous Speech Contest
Rod Collins won first place in the Fall Humorous Speech Competition! He will be practicing and readying himself for the Area P1 Competition on September 30th and with any luck the Paiute Division Contest on October 15th. Details are forthcoming but you’ll want to be there to support Rod since the higher one goes in this competition the funnier all the speeches become. It's good entertainment. Tim Owens is runner up.
Mary Cook did an excellent job at chairing the Humorous Speech Contest and Shana Knox made sure that things ran smoothly as Chief Judge. Khala from “As You Like it” provided her keen insights in evaluation as judge and delivered one of the best evaluations I’ve seen since I saw her as a contestant in the evaluation Area Competition last year. Murari and Jamie took careful count of the votes. Leigh kept good time. Len and Manish provided treats and refreshments. All in all, it was a very entertaining Competition and the upcoming evaluation competition in a couple of weeks promises to be entertaining – in a different sort of way.
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| Left to Right: Mary Cook, Humorous Contest Chair, Manish Shah and Jamie Lyon |
Left to Right: Leigh Waite and Shana Knox |
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| Left to Right: Murari M. Pradhan, Len Vidra, Manish Shah discussing the merits of each contestant |
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| Left to Right: Hemal Modi, Jamie Lyon |
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Left to Right: Leigh Waite and Shana Knox, Chief Judge of the contest |
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| Left to Right: Manish Shah and Shana Knox enjoying refreshments and small talk during contest intermission |
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Mary Cook |
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| Rod Collins, winner of the Humorous Speech Contest, demonstrating Rollover Bingo |
Rod Collins, showing Toastmasters how to play Carbaque Bingo |
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| Rod Collins explaining alternative meanings of street signs, “Watch for Ice on Bridge” – It doesn’t mean that you actually get a watch. |
Rod Collins proposing new street signs prototypes, “Well Duh” |
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| Rod Collins receives the first place award for the Humorous Speech Contest and will go on to the area competition. Shana Knox presents the award. |
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Tim Owens, Runner up for the Humorous Speech Competition – maybe next time! |
Rod Collins receives evaluation from Khala Walker hoping to glean some ideas to better compete at the area contest. Khala, a guest judge from AZ You Like it Toastmasters, has competed in past evaluative contests has good advice for Rod. |
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| The last meeting before the contest. Left to right: Laverne Schierholz, Rod Collins, Timothy B. Owens, Murari M. Pradhan; Mary Cook, Leonard Vidra |
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Evaluation Speech Contest
Capitol Toastmasters held its first Evaluation Contest for as far back as anyone can remember in September! Competitors were Hemal Modi, Manish Shaw, and Tim Owens. They listened to and performed 2-3 minute evaluations on Jamie Lyon's speech about Motorcycles. Girgis and Shana were judges, Sarker counted the ballots, Murari performed the duty of timer, Laverne was the Sergeant at Arms, and Leigh was the Contest Chair. Jacki, an honored guest, was present to see the team in action~
Tim Owens and Manish Shaw tied, which meant Sarker had to complete some additional math to ensure we had a single winner (Tim pulled ahead by just a few points). Therefore, Tim will compete at the next level, Paiute Area, September 30. Should he be unavailable, Manish will go in his stead.
Special thanks to Hemal for participating. He is a new member and has not presented any speeches to the club. However, his participation in Table Topics over the past month may have lent him some comfort, or at least enough that he got up there and gave it the ol’ college try! THANK YOU, Hemal!
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| Left to Right: Manish Shah, Jamie Lyon, Leigh Waite, Murari M. Pradhan, Shana Knox, Girgis A. Girgis, Sarker Sajedur Rahman Judges, Ballot Counters, and Timers prepare for the upcoming competition. |
| Girgis A. Girgis, a Capitol Toastmasters Alumni, has achieved through Competent Leader Bronze and Competent Communicator Gold and is the closest of anyone in the group to being a DTM (Distinguished Toastmasters). We’re fortunate that he agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to be Chief Judge in Capitol Toastmasters first evaluation contest in a long time. |
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| Left to Right: Girgis A. Girgis and Sarker Rahman |
Left to Right: Girgis A. Girgis and Sarker Rahman |
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| Timothy B. Owens, winner of the Evaluation Competition, gives his evaluation as the judges consider his analysis and recommendations to the speaker |
Tim evaluates as judges and ballot counters carefully listen |
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| Manish Shah, runner up for the evaluation contest, uses nonverbal communications in his delivery |
Manish Shah gives his analysis of the speech given earlier |
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| Hemal Modi, a real go-getter, has only been with Capitol club for a few weeks and has already entered a competition. We can see great things coming from this Toastmaster |
Left to Right: Manish Shah and Tim Owens are given a few minute in a room outside the meeting place to finalize their notes before giving their evaluations. |
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Leigh Waite, Chair of the Evaluation Competition gives direction to those participating |
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| Shana Knox, Evaluation Contest Judge, considers the merits of each contestant in scoring them |
Jamie Lyon, the speaker of the Evaluation Contest, will have his speech evaluated by the three contestants. His speech is on motorcycles and is very interesting. |
| Jamie Lyon shows to the audience the finer details of a good road bike. |
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Jamie shows off a fine looking motorcycle which has a few in the crowd envious. |
Jamie demonstrates what it’s like to ride with the wind in your face and the road ahead. |
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