Tandem Toastmasters Newswire
October 1997


Club Number 4658
Area G4
Division G
District 4
Region 2

The club meets: Every Wednesday, noon to 1 PM
Bldg. 201 ("Comm")
10501 N. Tantau Ave. (between Pruneridge & Vallco)
Rm. 2004 (upstairs in main hall)

Tandem Toastmasters Board Members,
July - December 1997
President Catherine Renteria
Vice President of Education Jeff Iswandhi
Vice President of Membership Zeeshan Syed
Vice President of Public Relations (Newswire Editor) Sheila Moore
Secretary Priya Sankaran
Treasurer Colleen Hein
Sergeant at Arms Victor Gutierrez


Table of Contents

Guests
New Members
Lost Members
Area Contest Results
Division Contest Results
Speeches
Ribbons
Toastmasters and Meeting Themes
Upcoming Events

Guests

New Members

Because we added five members in September and October, we won a Smedley Award ribbon for our banner! (Ken Bradley joined our club in September.)

Lost Members


Area Contest Results

Evaluation Contest
Place Contestant Club
1 John Fenwick Wry
2 Dianne Bryson South Bay Speakers
3 Morris Kimble Hot Talkers
Rajeev Thankappan Tandem
Claire Wright HP Communicators

Toastmaster: Walter Feszchak (TGIF)
Test Speaker: George White, "Why Me? Why Not Me?"

Humorous Speech Contest
Place Contestant Speech Title Club
1 Jeff Iswandhi Adam and Eve Tandem
2 Clint Oram ? (Topic: his parents' first visit to his first apartment) Wry
3 Pat Bhatt Body Parts People South Bay Speakers
Jim Breeding Enough Hot Talkers
Roy Sasai It's the Pits! HP Communicators

Toastmaster: David Jones


Division Contest Results

Evaluation Contest
Place Contestant
1 John Fenwick
2 Richard Wang
3 Phil Jarrell

Humorous Speech Contest
Place Contestant Speech Title
1 John Keenan Got Time!
2 Dave Reha You Bet!
3 Jeff Iswandhi Adam and Eve


Speeches

Date Speaker Speech
Manual # Title
10-01 Pete McKesson Basic 5 A Day With Uncle Pete *
10-08 Patrick Kelly Basic 5 Not Being Bad Doesn't Mean Good
Rajeev Thankappan Basic 6 What Matters Most *
10-15 Ken Bradley Basic 1 Breaking the Ice With a Passion
Duane Binger Ready, Set, Go -- Camp! *
10-22 Patrick Kelly Basic 6 A Dulling Tool: The Spoken Word
Michael Hurst1 Molehill or Mountain? *
10-29 Victor Gutierrez Storytelling 2 A Long Walk Ruined *

* Won ribbon
1. Guest


Ribbons

Date Speaker Evaluator Table Topics
10-01 Pete McKesson Rajeev Thankappan Rajeev Thankappan
Jeanne Miller *
10-08 Rajeev Thankappan Sheila Moore Art Dixon*
10-15 Duane Binger Jeff Iswandhi Robin Maybury
10-22 Michael Hurst * Priya Sankaran Rajeev Thankappan
10-29 Victor Gutierrez Patrick Kelly Patrick Kelly

* Guest


Toastmasters and Meeting Themes

Date Toastmaster Theme
10-01 Sheila Moore Siblings
10-08 Victor Gutierrez Anticipation
10-15 Priya Sankaran El Nino
10-22 Jeff Iswandhi Pets
10-29 Trang Pham What Was Your Best Vacation and Why?

Upcoming Events

Date Event Location Time
11-5 Election of officers for January-June 1998 term Our usual meeting room Noon
11-8 Interpretive Reading Contest Phillips Learning Center
811 E. Arques Ave.
Sunnyvale
Registration, 2:30 PM
Contest, 3:00 PM
11-21
11-22
District 4 Fall Conference
(includes Evaluation & Humorous Speech Contests)
Hyatt Regency
San Francisco Airport
See flier (in your snail mail)
12-5
12-10
Officer Training TBA TBA
12-10 Officer Installation Our usual meeting room Sometime between noon and 1 PM

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