A Night To Remember - Pathways One Year On!

There was much to celebrate at Hertfordshire Speakers Club tonight.

Twenty members and three guests listened eagerly as club President, Jillian Haslam, opened the meeting with a proud smile and shared the accomplishments the club had achieved to date. The most exciting news was the 100% enrolment on Pathways by club members - a first in District 71, perhaps.

On the first anniversary of the rollout of Pathways in District 11, the members of Herts Speakers were celebrating three significant successes.

1) Pathways Adoption

•100% of its members enrolled on pathways

•64% of its members have completed an Ice Breaker

•4 members have completed L1

•1 member has completed LDL5 and VCL3 and The Pathways Mentoring Program

 

The presentation of Pathways certificates were made by Wojtek Zulja, Area 20 Director, John Allsop, Area Director-elect and Vinette Hoffman-Jackson, Pathways Ambassador. The beautiful cake was cut by the two contest winners and shared to delighted members during the Network break. 

2) A President's Distinguished Club

The President of Hertfordshire Speakers was thrilled to announce that the club was President's Distinguished with 9 awards completed well before the end of the Toastmaster's year. This was a proud moment for the club which has a track record of achieving President's Distinguished status.

3) Contest Winners 

The third success celebrated this evening was having two members from Herts Speakers: Elizabeth Jordan and Surosh Pillay -  representing Area20 at the Division H International Speech and Evaluation contests on Saturday 30th March at Cranfield University.

 

 

The Area 20 Director, Wojtek Zulja, in his letter of thanks to the club President following the visit wrote: "Congratulations for the great achievement on the first anniversary of Pathways launch - I really liked your concept of celebration".

In other news from the evening's event:

The Toastmaster of the evening Bob Ferguson, DTM and Founder of the club, set the tone for a great evening.

The Best Speaker Award went to Bryan Chipchase for his Pathways Icebreaker Speech "Born Lucky". There were three other amazing speeches by Dara Caryotis, Claire Baker and Elizabeth Everington.

The Best Evaluator Speech went to guest, Vinette Hoffman-Jackson. The other Evaluators were Surosh Pillay, Emily Myers and Philip Carey.

Tonight at Herts Speakers was most definitely a night to remember.