March 7, 2013 Linguists of Listowel Club International Speech and Evaluation Contest

The Linguists of Listowel hosted the club level contest for the International Speech and Evaluation Contest.

Apryl Browning was the chairperson of the International Speech portion of the contest.
Speech competitors were; Leo, Val and Tony.
The speech contest winner was Val Hummel.
Congratulations Val!

Vern Noseworthy was the chairperson of the International Evaluation portion of the contest.
Evaluation competitors were; Brent, Val and Tony.
The evaluation contest winner was Tony Galvao.
Congratulations Tony!

Both Val and Tony will compete at the Area 65 level of International Speech and Evaluation Contest on March 8, 2013 in Hanover.

February 28, 2013 Theme: Speech Craft Graduation (Memorable Moments)

Speech Craft members; (Left to Right) Horst Dankewitz, Daniela Temlin, Tony Galvao (Speech Craft Coordinator) and Bryan Long.

 Speech Craft Graduates; (Left to Right) Horst Dankewitz, Daniela Temlin and Bryan Long.
Congratulations to all of you!

Speech Craft graduation cake.

February 28, 2013 Theme: Speech Craft Graduation (Memorable Moments)

There was energy in the air for this meeting. There were 11 in attendance for the graduation night for the Speech Craft members.

Heidi called the meeting to order and welcomed Tony Galvao as the chairman of the meeting. Tony welcomed everyone and discussed the agenda changes. Vern was the Toast and Timer of the meeting and explained his role as well as gave a loyal toast to Canada.

Leo was the Grammarian and provided the word of the evening "Destiny" which was very fitting for graduation night. Destiny was used 5 times during the meeting.

Speakers for the evening were; Bryan Long with a speech presentation about ECO Tuning, Daniela Temlin with a speech about Speech Craft and Horst Dankewitz with a speech about Speech Craft as well. Every speaker presented a great speech.

Tony Galvao officiated over the Speech Craft graduation ceremony and presented each Speech Craft member with a certificate of completion and accomplishment. Congratulations Speech Crafter's!

Table Topics was held next and Leo was the Table Topics master for the evening. The winner of Table Topics was Tony Galvao ...good job Tony!

Heidi was the General Evaluator and she introduced the speech evaluators and evaluated the overall meeting with her view points of what was done well and what might be good to change.

Val evaluated Bryan's speech presentation, Keith McCluskie evaluated Daniela's speech presentation and Audrey evaluated Horst's speech presentation. All evaluators provided positive feedback to the speakers as well as some small suggestions for possible improvements.

Reports were presented orally, the March 7th contest was discussed and who would be competing was discussed as well.

Tony provided the chairperson's closing remarks and the meeting was adjourned for everyone to enjoy a piece of Speech Craft Graduation cake.