4th Dimension Toastmasters

One of the major highlights of the year for 4th Dimension Toastmasters Club: The Speech and Evaluation Contests.

The atmosphere was electric in a room packed with over 30 people, members, contestants, helpers from other clubs and guests.

Call To Order and Welcome

Dave Hardingham called the meeting to order at exactly 18.15. The President Andrew Timberlake welcomed everyone before, after requesting programme alterations from Kirsten Long, handing over to himself as Contest Chairman!

The Toasts

Kirsten Long proposed the Loyal Toast to South Africa. Colin Roberts proposed the Toast for the Evening – To The Stars, basing this on the RAF motto.

The Contests and Briefings

Andrew, as Contest Chairman, gave an overview of the three Contests, The English International Speech Contest, The Impromptu Speech Contest and The Evaluation Contest.

This was followed by a recess during which the contestants and judges were briefed.

The English Prepared Speech Contest

The Four Contestants for the English Prepared Speech Contest were:

• Danie Roux with a Speech entitled  “The Importance of being awkward”, in which he highlighted that we cannot grow unless we try new things and the first time we do something new it will always be awkward.
• Coralie Rutherford with a speech entitled “The Dilemma” in which she posed the question, which takes preference the constitution and laws of a country of the cultures of its people’s?
• Mathew Hindley with his speech entitled  “Let’s Dance” in which he made an animated case for dancing every time we succeed.
• Kirsten Long with a speech entitled “Consciously Creating” in which she explained how you create your reality via your Prover and if you wish to change your reality then it has to be a conscious on going activity.

The Evaluation Contest

Reginald Muzariri gave a powerful entertaining speech with the title “The Power of a Name” which was a challenge to evaluate.

Danie Roux and Zibu Mntambo provided sound positive evaluations, demonstrating, especially to guests, the skills and challenges of evaluation.

Impromptu Speech Contest

The word that was the subject for the Impromptu Contest, was very topically “election”

The contestants Dave Black, Danie Roux and Sue Munro approached it from 3 very different but fascinating directions, showing their ability to think quickly and creatively on their feet!

Meet the Contestants

After Recess the contestants were introduced to the meeting and spoke, off the cuff, on one of their interests or special achievements.

The Results

Richard Riche, the Chief Judge reported that there were no disqualifications and no tiebreaker.

• Impromptu Speech Contest - 2nd place Sue Munro and 1st place Danie Roux
• Evaluation Contest - 2nd place Zibu Mntambo and 1st place Danie Roux
• English Prepared Speech Contest - 3rd place Coralie Rutherford, 2nd place Kirsten Long and 1st place Mathew Hindley

Congratulations to all the contestants, especially the winners, and most especially to Danie for winning 2 of the 3 contests.

Vote of thanks

Kirsten Long graciously thanked everyone who had contributed to the success of the evening, Colin for the Impromptu toast, The Judges, Timekeepers, Tally Counters, Sergeant at Arms and, of course, the Contestants.

Raffle

Dave Hardingham won the raffle, a just reward for all the work he did moving lecterns, bringing in contestants, but the sting in the tail is that he has to bring the prize for the raffle at the next meeting!

The meeting adjourned at 20.30

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