Robyn Lloyd won the International Speaker and the Speech Evaluation. A huge congratulations to Robyn from us all, well done, terrific effort! Robyn now goes forward to the Area competition on the 17th March, venue to be decided, competing against the winners from Riverside, Terrace and Young Guns Clubs. Everyone is more that welcome to attend and cheer on Robyn on the night. More details to follow as venue is confirmed. This competition will be hosted by Young Guns.

Thank you to all the members who participated in the competition(some at the last minute!) including, Robyn Lloyd, Robyn Bell, Gil Alexander and Robert Twomey. Big thanks to the members who helped with various roles including Allen and Jerry as Timekeepers, Eder as Usher, Tapuwa as Contest Chair and Tony as Chief Tally Counter & Area Governor to present the Places! Fantastic effort all around!

Club competitions seem to be more relaxing and fun with an opportunity to participate and step up to the plate amongst friends. I always leave with some learning for the next time. Keep it in mind when the Humerous Speech and Table Topics come up later in the year………..You will never know if you never go!!

All the Best

Mary Murphy
President – Durack Toastmasters

Hopefully all our members had a safe and happy holiday break. Regular Durack meetings resume this week, with our first meeting of 2010 scheduled for Thursday 14 January at the usual time of 7am and the usual venue in the Durack Building.

We hope to see all of our members back shiny and refreshed for a great new year.

The agenda set for the 27th on the schedule will be pushed out a week….Why??

Its “competition” time again! This week the 27th August at 7am we will run our club competition for humorous speeches and Table Topics at Durack.

For all new members it is a great time to raise the bar and experience a competition in your own club among your own. For all our experienced members it is an opportunity to take up the challenge again and show us how it’s done!

If you wish to participate please let me know for either the humorous speech or in the Table Topics, come on take up the challenge its fun!

Even if you don’t wish to do the competition please do come along as the members not competing are judging, another great opportunity not to be missed!

Either way you can’t go wrong, so “be there or be square” I am looking forward to it.

See you there.

Mary

In past years, this has also seen several Durack members take on senior leadership roles for the district, helping Toastmasters grow in Western Australia, not just within the club.

We are very proud to announce that Tony Obrzut will become the latest Durack member to take up a leadership role in Toastmasters WA. Tony will become an Area Governor, with responsibility for helping four clubs develop in the coming year.

Tony joins other Durack members who have help senior leadership roles in Toastmasters:

• Gil Alexander: Area Governor, Perth Division Governor, Speechcraft Coordinator
• Michael Malone: Area Governor 2005-2009
• Glen Lewis: Area Governor 2006
• Medhat Takla: Area Governor 2007
• Pascale Amberville-Colby: Area Governor 2007-2009

Congratulations to Tony.

For the past six years, Durack has achieved the highest possible club award, the President’s Distinguished Award. Once again for the 2008/2009 year, Durack has succeeded in reaching this target again.

Congratulations to the club officers and members who have assisted in making this happen. Durack remains one of the most successful clubs in Western Australia and as members we are very proud to be part of it.

Steve D’Costa won the International Speakers Contest and Mary Murphy won the Evaluation Contest.  Congratulations!

The winners from Durack now go to the i40 Area Finals, competing against the winners from Riverside, Terrace and Young Guns Clubs. The Area Finals are being held on Monday night (9th of March) in the Durack building from 6pm. Everyone is more that welcome to attend and cheer on the Durackian representatives.

Mary Murphy will be representing Durack in the Evaluation Contest. Unfortunately Steve is not able to attend and so Medhat Takla will be representing us in the International Contest.

Best of luck to both Mary and Medhat!!

(this article graciously supplied by Emily, our VP Education)

Thank you to all our members and guests for a very enjoyable year.

The winner of the humorous speech contest was Michael Chin from Riverside Toastmasters.  Michael delivered a speech entitled “Tall Poppies: Why we don’t need them”.  He told us why tall poppies are a bad thing, making the rest of us feel inadequate, and also how to spot them and bring them down.  It was a well constructed and very well presented speech, which received a lot laughs.

The runner up was Durack’s Glen Lewis, telling us about his new business “Fitness 2nd”, which would only employ old, fat, dumb people, since they would prove cheaper.  It was a little incorrect (!) but very funny.

Durack’s Mary Murphy picked up first place in the impromptu speaking (table topics) contest.  The challenge for each contestant was to tell us what the priorities should be for the new WA state government.  Mary picked education and spoke passionately about the topic, reflecting on her own education and where she saw room for improvement in WA.

Congratulations to everyone who competed and thank you to all the people who worked hard to make the evening possible.

The winners from these contests now proceed to the division finals on Monday 27 October.  This will commence at 6.30pm in the Central Park theatrette.  Please come along to cheer on our representatives.

Each year, Toastmasters International awards clubs that have performed well in the year starting from the 1st of July. The club members need to achieve their educational awards, new members have to be attracted, and the administrative duties of the club need to be performed. For the past five years straight, Durack has achieved the highest possible award award, the President’s Distinguished Club. This has also been achieved by Victoria Quay and the two clubs are nearly always the first to achieve it for the district, which includes Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia.

“We have a great deal of respect for the Victoria Quay club,” said Durack President Michael Malone. “But Durack is that little bit better. So in the coming year, we’re going to prove it by taking the flag again.”

The race is on.

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President: Michael Malone
VP Education: Emily Tonks
Secretary: Rachelina
Treasurer: Gil Alexander
VP Membership: Robert Twomey
VP PR: Pascale Amberville-Colby
Sergeant at Arms: Marlena Brabant

We’re looking forward to another successful year for Durack and all our members.