Lingo Club Speech Contest - International Speech and Evaluation

Thank you to all contestants, judges, contest volunteers, and guests who attended our Evaluation and International Speech Club Contests on Tuesday, Feb 20.  Big Thanks goes to our Contest Chair, Cherry Cheung for organizing this club contest.

Special thanks goes to our Test Speaker Mauricio Blanco from Fun Speakers Toastmasters Club.  Thank you to Rhys for inviting Mauricio.

The winners are: 

Evaluation:  1st place Rick Lebeuf,  2nd place Eileen Szakacs
International:  1st place Rick Lebeuf,  2nd place Eileen Szakacs

As per our Area Director,  Tolu Adelowokan, both winners Rick Lebeuf and Eileen Szakacs may both advance to the area contest as there are only 4 clubs in our Area B51.  

Area B51 Contest will be held on April 4, Location TBD

Congratulations to our winners and wishing them the very best as they advance to Area B51 Speech Contest and thank you to all the club members for participating!!

Rhys Davies, Cherry Cheung, Eileen Szakacs, and Rick Lebeuf

Workshop - Being a Chief Judge (Rick Lebeuf DTM)

     

On February 6th, guest speaker Kim Schreiner, member of the Telecommunicators Club who is close to achieving her ACG enthralled and entertained us with her fourth manual speech from the Interpretive Reading manual, by portraying characters from an excerpt from Act III of Visitor from Forest Hills by Neil Simon. American comedian George Burns once said, “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” Kim played both husband and wife of their daughter who was to be married and wouldn’t come out of the bathroom. Too afraid that she would end up like her arguing parents. In the end, their daughter did head down the aisle.

Rick Lebeuf, DTM presented a workshop on How to be a Chief Judge – perfectly timed for the upcoming Club, Area, Division and District International Speech and Evaluation contests. 

Rick’s Top three tips are:

1. Always consult with the Contest Chair and determine who is responsible for what ;
2. Get to contest early to set up; and
3. Contests are always about the contestants