Leadership Training August 10th in Manchester

Four of our Cromwell Community Club Officers got up bright 

and early on Saturday morning August 10th, 2013 to attend Toastmasters Leadership Training in Manchester. 

Sheetal Patel, Bo Bogart, Hollie Rose and Elizabeth Landeen pose with David Freedman District 53 Lt. Gov. Marketing.

It was an exciting day, this past weekend, where we got a chance to network with and learn with other members of our respective offices. David Freedman worked the crowd before the opening festivities. 

During the Opening Ceremonies we heard many great speakers from the District 53 Leadership talk about the value and privilege of serving as a Toastmasters Officer, including District 53 Governor Val Albert. I didn't get a good photo of her speaking, but here's Bette McIntire (Lt. Gov. Education & Training) during her presentation on the health of our clubs...

And here's a few more pictures from the day we had...

 

 Elizabeth and Bo and Sheetal, notebooks at the ready!

Here's Bo in the Record Keeping Session taught by Jay Discount. (Photo by Arnie Grot)

And lucky me! All my VPPR classes were taught by Heather Turner - Social Media and Marketing guru from our club last year and owner of Forfeng Designs. Here she is above teaching the basics of Toastmaster Website manipulation and below, leading the open forum for VPPRs.

(Below photo by Arnie Grot)

The day ended with another chance for Jerry Aiyathruai to practice his semi-final speech for the International Convention in Cincinnati next week.

 

 

All in all it was a good day!

  ~~~~~ Hollie Rose

Our Area 34 Spring Contests were held this evening April 11, 2012 at 7:00.

They were held in a very nice room called the auditorium at Northeast Utilities in Berlin.  

There were seven contestants from four clubs.

Three Tall Tales and Four International contestants

from...

Cromwell

Cedar Hill (Newington)

Central CT Advanced Toastmaters

NorthEast Utilities Toastmasters

 

Results:

(They announced two places in each contest):

International:

1st place - Kevin Finn - gave a speech about "Dave", an man who is confined to a wheel chair.  He gave part of this speech at a Middlesex open house - maybe the one with Walter Beveridge?

2nd place - Nathan Jaycox - a very well organized speech about an "unseen mentor" - a relative of his who inspired Nathan years ago and who he only realized recently as a mentor.

The other two contestants were our own Louis Nizet and Helen Taylor.

There was one disqualification for time.

Louis gave a great presentation of the "I Believe" speech he gave at our club contest.  This time no notes, and he had all the items for each letter of "I B-E-L-I-E-V-E" down cold.  It was very interesting and educational, even inspiring! 

Tall Tales:

1st place - Patricia Martin from Cedar Hill who treated us with a very animated Tall Tale about witches, crab apples and fire.

2nd place - Richard Franz Jr. from CCAT - who was also very animated. 

Charlie Hubert and our own Sharon Roth (and Division C Governor!) were in attendance as was Nancy Green - a former member of Middlesex Toastmasters and a guest at Cromwell last fall!

Sharon gave a very inspiring speech at the end of the contest about the exciting Toastmasters club she is helping start in a prison!

Cromwell Community Toastmasters Upcoming Events

1.      Open house

·      February 21^st - 5:30 – 7:30

·      At the Town Hall in The Arch Room on first floor near the library.

·       Please bring at least one guest whether they’ve expressed interest in Toastmasters or not.

2.      Toastmasters Leadership Exchange (especially for officers, open to all)

·      February 23^rd  -  6-8PM

·      65 Wooster St., Shelton, CT

3.      Regular meeting

·      March 6^th  - 5:30 – 7:30

·      At the Town Hall Room Rm 222 – (same room as tonight 2/7)

·      Please sign up early for a role. 

·       If you are a speaker please email your introduction to the Toastmaster by Friday March 2^nd.

4.      Tall Tails and International Club Contests

·      March 20^th 2012  - 5:30 – 7:30

·      Here at the Town Hall (room TBA)

Consider giving a speech in the contest.  A Contest is just another opportunity to practice communication and leadership skills. Those judged to have given the best speeches are eligible to compete at the Area Contest. 

There are four clubs in our Area 34. Winners of the Area Contest may then advance to the Division C Contest and Division Contest winners may advance to the District Contest 53 and the Winner of the District *International Contest is eligible to Compete at the International Contest.  

Our Division C has about 27 clubs.  Our Division C Governor is our very own Sharon Roth.  Our District 53 has approximately 140 clubs in CT, Western MA and part of Upstate NY. 

The *International Speech contest is called such because it is the only Toastmasters speech contest in which the winner has the opportunity to advance to the International Contest for the World Champion of Public Speaking. The speeches are 5-7 minutes in length and can be any topic the speaker desires. There are over 200,000 Toastmasters world wide in approximately 13,000 clubs.   

The Tall Tales Contest speeches are 3-5 minutes.  The Tall Tale is an original story of a highly exaggerated, improbable nature with a theme or plot.

 

5.      Mentoring:  Return forms

6.      Hike with Toastmasters at Sleeping Giant

·       April 14  1:00 – 3:00

7.       Special Guest  Marilyn Jess via Skype:  “How to interview over the phone.”

·       April 17  Regular meeting 5:30 – 7:30

8.       District 53 Spring Conference 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.  Hartford Plaza Hotel 100 East River Drive East Hartford, CT

A wonderful day of...

·       Education

·       Inspiration

·       The Best Speeches in District 53 (140+ clubs)

·       Networking

·       Fun