Sunday, October 18, 2009

Division H Table Topics & Humorous Speech Competition

October 18th, 2009

Drum roll please!

And the 2009 Winners of the Division H Table Topics Competiton are:

1. James Dean Waryk
2. Maureen McBeath
3. Wanda Morrison

And the 2009 Winners of the Division H Humorous Speech Competition are:

1. Debbie Forbes
2. Catherine Russell
3. James Redfern

If you weren't there you missed an awesome contest! The room was filled to capacity!

Thanks again to the GREAT TEAM of PEOPLE who made this event such a SUCCESS.


Special Thanks to:

John Pearson - Contest Chair
Georgina Harrison - Chief Judge
Barry Monaghan - Sergeant At Arms

Barbara Lightfoot - Timer
Tyler Storm - Timer

Jason Newton - Laugh Master

Joachim Schuster - Tally Counter
Lisa Williams - Tally Counter
Sandra Wrightman - Tally Counter


Very special thanks as well to all those who contributed of their time and energy by being Judges for this event.


Division H was honoured to have such great support from the District Trio, in attendance were:

District Governor Dr. Doug Thiessen,
Lieutenant Governor of Education Tom Jones and
Lieutenant Governor of Marketing Reamick Lo


Also many thanks to our Past District Governor Joanne Morrison for attending the Divison H Competition.

Last but not least thanks goes to the fabulous Division H Team!

Area #71 Governor - Jessica Doig
Area #72 Governor - Jill Fraser
Area #73 Governor - Hollie Davis
Area #74 Governor - Elson Kung
Area #75 Governor - Kathrin Lake
Assistant to the Division Governor - Georgina Harrison

Ian Dyck you were sadly missed today!

See you all at the District #21 Conference in Burnaby on November 6, 7 and 8th, 2009.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Quay Speakers

I really enjoyed my visit to Quay Speakers a couple weeks ago. Year after year Quay Speakers ranks as 1 of the highest scores for DCP points in the Division. Their meetings are very well organized and the members are all keen on moving forward with their educational goals.

An interesting element that Quay Speakers have at the beginning of their meeting is the Membership Chair (or another assigned person) shares who is absent at this particular meeting and why they are absent. I loved that! It really showed that people cared if you were not there and that Club members want to know if you were OK.

Stop in and visit Quay Speakers at the Lonsdale Quay on Tuesday nights!

Visit to Calgary

While in Cowtown last week I took an hour and a half out of my other duties to visit a Toastmasters Club - Miracles Toastmasters.

An interesting element that they have in their meetings is an "Outvocator". They start with and Invocation and end with an Outvocation. I really enjoyed going home with another little piece of inspiration to tide me over for the week.

Another component that I particularly liked about their meeting (besides the amazing members) was they scheduled in 15-30 seconds per person at the beginning of the meeting to introduce themselves and answer 1 question. The question that was asked the week I was there was - What was your favorite thing to do as a child. As I grew up in Calgary it was a timely question for me.

Marlene, Lera and Bob where especially welcoming to me and I really appreciated their friendliness and hospitality. If you are in Calgary stop by on Wednesday night and say "Hi."

Division H Humorous Speech Contest

The Competition on Sunday October 18th will be outstanding. We have five great contestants in both the Table Topics Competition and the Humorous Speech Competition. Georgiana Harrison has done a wonderful job on pulling together 13 Judges for this event. Over 1/2 of the judges have DTM's. There will be door prizes and great food as well! See you there!