Area A2 Contest results

Here are the pictures of the Area A2 contest held Friday, Oct.2nd, 2009...

The Area A2 Humorous contest winners are:
from left to right...
3rd place: Darci Rowe, 2nd place: Mike Knopf, Winner: Geoff Crew
Both Geoff and Mike will represent Area A2 at the Division contest.


From left to right...

Winner: Ruth Ray
2nd place: Steve Rock
3rd place: Gerry Buchman

Because Ruth Ray will be unable to attend the Division contest, Steve and Gerry will be the ones attending it on Friday October 9.

Area A-2 Toastmasters-in-Action !!!!

From: Walter W. Beveridge
Date: Apr 8, 2008
Subject: All Area A-2 Toastmasters

The winners of the Area A-2 Tall Tales contest and the Area A-2 International contest are scheduled to present their award-winning speeches next week at three libraries (one in Connecticut) and one coffee house.

Here is their itinerary:

· Saturday, April 19, 7PM – Liana's Coffee House in Carmel, NY - http://www.lianascoffeehouse.com/

· Sunday, April 20, 2PM - Somers Library in Somers, NY - http://www.somerslibrary.org/

· Sunday, April 20, 4PM – Danbury Library in Danbury, CT - http://www.danburylibrary.org/

· Monday, April 21, 2PM – Kent Library in Kent Lakes, NY - http://www.kentlibrary.org/

All Toastmasters are encouraged to attend the presentation at the Danbury Library. The room holds up to 90 people and we would like to fill it.

Area A2 Contest results ....

On April 2nd, Area A2 had their Tall Tales and International Speech contests. The contest was hosted by Putnam Speaks at Guideposts in Carmel, NY with Steve Rock of BI Toastmasters filling the role of ContestMaster.

The winners of the contests were:

International speech winners:
1st Place:
Walter Beveridge, Putnam Speaks

1st Runner-Up:
Naveen Thalanki, BI Toastmasters

2nd Runner-Up:
Croix Sather, DiversityUSA

Tall Tales winners:
1st Place: Lisa Edwards, Putnam Speaks
1st Runner-Up: Gary McCourry, Putnam Speaks
2nd Runner-Up: Janice Brickwood, BI Toastmasters


Pictures:
* top picture... all attendees !
(notice all the smiles!)

* next picture... (l-r) Croix Sather, Naveen, Walter Beveridge, Steve Rock, Dave Wheeler, Lisa Edwards, Gary McCourry, Janice Brickwood

bottom picture: ContestMaster Steve Rock interviews Tall Tales contestant Gary McCourry.

* Higher resolution versions of these pictures are available by clicking the links below.
http://www.notewordy.com/Toastmasters/Spring08_A2_everyone.jpg
http://www.notewordy.com/Toastmasters/Spring08_A2_winners.jpg

Area A4 / A2 contest scheduled!

The Spring contest for Area A2 and Area A4 has been scheduled!


Date:
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008


Time:
Contestants & role players (judges, etc.) arrive by 6pm
Contest starts at 7pm


Location:
Stony Hill Fire House
59 Stony Hill Road,
Bethel, CT 06801

click here for a map of the location.


We look forward to a fun evening of International and Tall Tale speeches! Be sure to invite your friends and family and come out to support the contestants from your club!

Area A2 & A4 Contest Winners !

On Sept.25th, Area A2 and Area A4 held their TableTopics and Humorous speech contest at the Stony Hill Fire Department in Bethel, CT.

In Area A4 Humorous Speech Contest, Pearl Golay took home 1st place for her speech titled, "A Permanent Crisis" while Shila Ray was the 1st RunnerUp with his speech titled, "Virtues". (Pearl and Shila are shown in the picture to the right ... Pearl is the one on the left.)

In the Area A2 Humorous Speech Contest, Nana Danso (far left in the picture to the right) won 1st place with his speech titled, "The Secret" and Jinghua Xu (far right in picture) was the 1st RunnerUp with her speech titled, "Love is Deaf".

TableTopics winners were Liz Smith (Area A4, 2nd from left in picture) and Kathleen Zap (Area A2, 3rd from left in picture).

Area A2 & A4 Fall Contest Schedule

On Tuesday, September 25th, 2007, Areas A2 and A4 will hold their combined Fall Area Speech Contests. The speech themes are HUMOROUS and TABLE TOPICS for the Fall contest.


It will be held at the STONY HILL FIRE HOUSE, 59 Stony Hill Road, Bethel, CT 06801. The contest will begin at 6:30 PM all participants are to arrive by 6:00. You can download a flyer in PDF format by clicking here.


A few volunteers are needed to serve as the JUDGES that evening. If you are interested in volunteering as a Judge, please contact your Area Governor (Pat Wilson-Perkins in Area A4 or Dan Legg in Area A2).


Reminder.... Clubs can send TWO Contestants for each contest (4 total participants) to the Area contests this year ! Don't miss out on this great opportunity !

Welcome New Area Governors for 2007-8

Welcome to the 2007-8 Area Governors who will be starting (officially) on July 1, 2007 !

Mike Ruppert, Area A1
Dan Legg, Area A2
Ozgur Turkman, Area A3
Pat Wilson-Perkins, Area A4
Janice Parker, Area A5

We appreciate that they have stepped forward to serve the clubs in their area and we will be working together to make 2007-8 the best Toastmaster year EVER !

Congratulations New Area Governors !

Dave Wheeler
Division A Governor, 2006-8

More Club Contest Winners ... BI Toastmasters

On 3/16/07, Steve Rock wrote:

As the Vice President – Education for BI Toastmasters (#7386) it is my pleasure to inform you of the result of our Tall Tales Speech Contest, conducted 3/15, and International Speech Contest, conducted 3/8.

Tall Tale winners....

^{1st Place – Jaime Navarro}

2nd Place – Jinghua Xu

3rd Place – Nana Danso

International Speech Contest winners ...

^{1st Place – Nana Danso}

2nd Place – Andre White

3rd Place – Zhanna Yuabova

We look forward to seeing the winners at the Area A2 / A4 Contest on Wed. March 21st at the Wooster School Library. Contestants should arrive at 7pm for briefings so the contest can start at 7:30pm.

Note: if the first place winner cannot compete, the next place winner can take his / her place. Please encourage all contestants to come prepared to speak ... you never know when someone's schedule will change and you will have an unexpected opportunity to compete !

Winners of Local Putnam speaks Contest

Susan Schefflein sends along the results for Putnam Speaks Toastmasters recent club contests...

Subject: Winners of local Putnam Speaks Contest
We had our local ontest last night.
The winner of the International Speech Contest was David Alexander ATMS. Runner up was Walter Beveridge DTM.

The winner of the Tall Tales was Nicholas Valhos, a new member to Toastmasters.

fyi: The area contest will be March 21: http://www.district53toastmasters.org/diva/calendarA.html

Area A3 Contests... set for April 4th

From Dave Wheeler, Division A Governor:

Since I have not gotten any responses the email I sent out last week, I made an "executive decision" and scheduled the Area A3 contest in conjunction with the Area A1 / A5 Contest on April 4th. (I have already discussed the subject with Area A1 & A5).

We want to make sure we give all the clubs in Area A3 the opportunity to participate in the Spring contests ! They should also be aware that each area will have their own trophies so while the contests are being run together, the competitions will only be within each Area!

On 2/27/07, Roger Brown <rogerbrown@mac.com > wrote:

Good Morning Dave.

The Area Contests should start real soon now. And it

looks like Division A is nearly ready for the march to the

final 6 speakers in D53.

Area A1 Tall Tales and International Speech Contests

Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at Dyson Bldg, Ulrich Conf Rm Marist College,

3399 North Rd (Rte 9), Poughkeepsie, NY

Area A2 Tall Tales and International Speech Contests

Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at Wooster School Library, 91 Miry Brook Rd, Danbury, CT

Area A3 Tall Tales and International Speech Contests

Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
at Dyson Bldg, Ulrich Conf Rm Marist College,
3399 North Rd (Rte 9), Poughkeepsie, NY

Area A4 Tall Tales and International Speech Contests

Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at Wooster School Library, 91 Miry Brook Rd, Danbury, CT

Area A5 Tall Tales and International Speech Contests

Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at Dyson Bldg, Ulrich Conf Rm Marist College,

3399 North Rd (Rte 9), Poughkeepsie, NY

Division A Tall Tales and International Speech Contests

Wednesday, April 11, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at Wooster School Library, 91 Miry Brook Rd, Danbury, CT