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Club News - 2009 Archive

Club Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest - 22nd September 2009
After some entertaining humorous speeches and thought provoking table topics, David Brinsdon (Humorous Speech) and Tony Henderson-Newport (Table Topics) won through and will be representing the club at the Area 46 Contest in Reading on 3rd October. Congratulations to David and Tony.

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Newbury Speakers Club Elections - 23rd June 2009
At the club meeting on 23 June the new committee were elected. Outgoing club president Ray Wilton provided committee reports and thanked the outgoing committee for all of their efforts during the 2008-09 Toastmaster year. The outgoing committee were:

The club voted in the incoming committee and heard from incoming president, Tony Henderson-Newport, about the opportunities available to the club during the 2009-10 Toastmaster Year. The incoming committee are:

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Newbury Speakers Celebrate Their 25th Anniversary - 6th June 2009
The club celebrated its 25th Anniversary with a black tie dinner and dance at the Newbury Manor Hotel. The evening was hosted by Tony Henderson-Newport and speeches were heard from Ray Wilton (Club President), Jenny Mills (founder member) and Freda Hendle (Past President). A special video message was played from Randy Lanning of St. Clair Toastmasters, Swansea, Illinois. It was Randy, then Captain Randall Lanning of the USAF stationed at Greenham Common, who was responsible for starting the club back in the mid-1980s. After dinner the guest speaker, the polar explorer Hannah McKeaned, enthralled the audience with the story of how she managed to set a world record for skiing from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole, a 690 mile journey that she completed in just 39 days.

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Toastmasters National Conference - 9th-10th May 2009
Every year in May Toastmasters in the UK and Ireland (known as District 71) holds its national conference and this year it was held close to home in the Cotswolds. The contest also hosts the finals of the UK and Ireland International Prepared Speech and Evaluation contests, with finalists from clubs across the UK and Ireland. The standard was amazing and the winner of the International Prepared Speech Contest, Gareth McHale from the Northavon Club, will now represent District 71 at the International Toastmasters conference in the United States in August this year.

Newbury Speakers Club, for the second year running, was represented in a unique way. Last year in Killarney in Ireland, Club President Phil Gladwell and VP Education Tony Henderson-Newport presented to the conference on the benefits of Speechcraft and forming new clubs (Newbury Speakers was the sponsor club for Vodafone Speakers, also based in Newbury).

This year, Phil was involved in the organisation of the event and Tony (VPE) presented on a new initiative (proposed and funded by Newbury Speakers club) on a UK and Ireland Website competition. The intention is for clubs to compete by carrying out improvements to their existing website, or perhaps creating a new club website.

The winners will be announced at a black tie dinner in Ireland in May 2010.

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Division E International Speech and Evaluation Contest - 19th April 2009
Tony Henderson-Newport (Evaluation) and Philip Gladwell (International Speech) represented the club at the Division E contest in Leamington Spa. The eventual winners were Lindy Irving (Evaluation) and Gareth McHale (International Speech). Lindy and Gareth will be going on to represent the Division at the District 71 final at the Cotswold Conference over the 8th, 9th and 10th May.

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Area 42 International Speech and Evaluation Contest - 29th March 2009
Maintaining their winning ways despite stiff competition, Tony Henderson-Newport (Evaluation) and Philip Gladwell (International Speech) won the Area 42 contest and will be representing the Area at the Division E contest in Leamington Spa on April 19th. Congratulations to Tony and Phil and many thanks to everyone who came along to help with the contest.

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Newbury Speakers Club 25th Anniversary
The club will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and will be hosting a formal event to mark the occassion. Keep checking back for more details.

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Club International Speech and Evaluation Contest - 24th March 2009
After a very close run contest Tony Henderson-Newport (Evaluation) and Philip Gladwell (International Speech) won through and will be representing the club at the Area 42 Contest, being hosted by the club, on March 29th. Many thanks to everyone who came along to help with and support the contest.

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Club News

The new commitee is elected for the 10/11 Toastmasters year.

Phil Gladwell is the new Area Governor for Area 46.

Derek Bingham achieves his Competent Communicator award. Ray Wilton and Phil Gladwell are Competent Leaders.

Alison Coles and Matt Simons achieve their Competent Communicator awards.

Jenny Mills achieves her Advanced Communicator Gold award.

Ray Wilton wins through in the Area 46 Evaluation Contest.

Afolabi Sekoni is a Competent Communicator.

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