There was much to celebrate at Hertfordshire Speakers Club
tonight.
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
•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.
2 comments:
A fantastic achievement congratulations to all the committee and members of Hertfordshire Speakers. It was a great evening and was honoured to have been able to share in the celebrations.
it was a fabulous evening, so well planned and delivered. So lovely to reflect though this blog all of the achievements as well as the fun evening. Thanks to all who were involved and to Elizabeth for the blog.
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