CSC Meeting
Tue 15 May 2012
Tue 29 May 2012Note: the meeting of 5th June has been brought forward to 29th May - because of the Jubilee Bank Holiday
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From Good to Great
This is an approximate record of an education speech I delivered at Chiltern Speakers on 17 April. Members of Chiltern Speakers are all competent speakers – capable of delivering an audible, coherent, fluent and usually very interesting speech to an … Continue reading
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Goodbye David, Hello Bill
David Selwood has been a terrific sergeant at arms since July. He is completely reliable, always arriving early and getting everything ready so that we can start our meetings on the dot of 7.45. On the few occasions when he … Continue reading
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Meeting 3 April
Report by Bill Birdi I have been a member of Chiltern Speakers for a few months. From the very first meeting I was made to feel welcome and there is a very warm feeling at Chiltern Speakers. The positive support … Continue reading
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Meeting on Feb 7 2012
Report by Gilly Stoddart As a relatively new member of Toastmasters I’m still amazed at how much fun and how inspiring an evening with the Chiltern Speakers can be. Tonight was no exception. For me, the table top discussions are … Continue reading
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International Speech and Evaluation Contest
Chiltern Speakers will hold our contest on 21 February. The time and place are exactly as for a normal meeting but the format is different. Speaking contest. Contestants have to have completed six of the speeches in the Competent Communicator … Continue reading
2012 Winners
3 January Attendance: 18 members plus two guests Best table topic: Zaklina Petrovic Best speaker: Debbie Jeremiah Best evaluator: Mark Emanuelson. 17 January 20 Members and three guests Best Table Topic : Bill Birdi Best Speaker: Mike Kavanagh Best Evaluator: … Continue reading
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Meeting 3 Jan 2012
The theme was… New Year’s resolutions of course! Table topics master Harminder Dhillon asked us all to advise him on how he should go about keeping to a whole list of resolutions and Zaklina made us all laugh with her … Continue reading
Meeting on 15 November
Every seat was full. We welcomed three new members: Peter Shreeve, Rupe Mann and Terry Edwards and were delighted to see two long-standing members again who had been absent for a while: Debbie Hunter and Tracy Miranda. Table topics was … Continue reading
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Humorous Speech Contest
On 6 September we held our humorous speech and table topics contest. It was open to all paid-up club members and we had a strong group of contestants. Chetan Bhatt won the humorous contest with his speech about going for … Continue reading
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Share your thoughts here
This blog area is for all members of Chiltern Speakers to comment on meetings, discuss topics that have come up in speeches and share ideas that could help other members. For example, do you have a favourite way of planning … Continue reading