Peter Law DTM

Victoria Quay is in Area S32 of Southern Division in District 17 of Toastmasters International.  On Saturday April 28, Southern Division conducted contests to decided who would represent the Division at the District finals at the Convention on May 26/7.  Our member Peter was the Area representative for both contests.  He won them both.  Congratulations Peter.

Here is a brief account of the afternoon’s very satisfactory proceedings for Victoria Quay members.  It was held at the Bullcreek Community Centre in Hassell Avenue.  Further down this web page there is a Rotator with photos of each of the people mentioned.

Sergeant at Arms Greg Madden opened the session. Of course Greg is a member of Victoria Quay.

He introduced the Toastmaster, Vicky Post, Southern Division Governor.  She explained that for each contest the first two placegetters will go forward to the District 17 Contests.

The International Speech Contest Chair, Mark Small, explained the rules.

Gerry Prewett gave an Inspiration. He spoke about Perth Glory almost winning the Soccer premiership and left them with a message – Just keep practising and get lucky.

Mike Palmer and Peter

Then we had the 5 International Speech Contestants

Ian Hart from Area S35 spoke about “Dream a Dream”

Our Peter from Area S32 gave his “The Gift” speech

Marianne Law (yes, Marianne) from S33 shocked some with “Penises in Sudan”

Simon Frayne from S34 spoke about “Vision”

Mike Palmer‘s speech was “Strength and Love”

Peter was first and Mike Palmer was second

After the contest and presentation of participation certificates by Contest chair Mark, John Pawley gave a Convention Update.

Then we had afternoon tea coordinated by Ling Morton from Murdoch Southsiders club.

The Evaluation Contest

Mike Palmer, Jim Stephen and Peter

Ian Pickens was the Contest Chair and after reading the rules he introduced the test speaker, Ray Martin, who asked us “Who are you?”

The five evaluators were

Tom Bielski from S33

Charles Fisher from S35

Mike Palmer from S31

Jim Stephen from S34

Peter Law from S32

The three placegetters were Peter first, Jim second and Mike third. However, because Jim is a presenter at the District Convention he had to choose between that and competing in the Evaluation final. He chose to make the presentation, so third place Mike is our second representative.

After Vicky had thanked the helpers, John and Vicky conducted the Convention draw and a Raffle draw.

Mark Richards

Mark Richards, our District 17 Governor, and of course another Victoria Quay member, closed the Contests with a short speech. Of course he urged all those who hadn’t yet registered for the Convention to come along. Besides four Contests – Table Topics, Humorous (Peter is in that too), Evaluation and the International, there is a featured presentation by the current World Champion of Public Speaking, Jock Elliott, several other presentations, the District Council Meeting, the Saturday evening Dinner Dance, the Sunday morning DTM breakfast and many awards.

Mark told us that among the 86 Districts in the world covering a quarter of a million members, our District 17 is currently running fifth. Now that is something exciting for such a new District – we only began last July. We are only 40 member payments short of reaching an important target when we will be Distinguished, and if we can do it quickly enough we will be the first District in the world Distinguished. District 43 is hot on our heels with 80 payments to go – will we be first?

A great success

The contests were a great success and it wasn’t only for Victoria Quay. Peter was our representative in the Evaluation Contest but in the International he was representing our sister club, Netmasters. And in the Humorous Speech Contest he will be representing Armadale! Wow!! He gets around, doesn’t he? Let’s hope he wins the International and goes on to represent our District 17 (and Netmasters and Victoria Quay) at Orlando in Florida in August for the World Championship of Public Speaking.

Victoria Quay were well represented at the Contests. Besides Peter, Greg Madden and Mark, Christine, Greg Lynn, Neville, Glenis and David were there. Former VP Education Mark came along with his wife to support Peter.

Here is the Rotator with many photos from the afternoon

These are the people in the Rotator

Peter of course

Greg Madden

Vicky Post

Mark Small

Gerry Prewett

John Pawley

Ian Pickens

Ian & Ray Martin

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Report and Photos by

David Nicholas DTM
Victoria Quay Webmaster

We had a break over Christmas and the new year.  Now our meetings start again on Wednesday, January 18.  Our new Vice President Education, Greg Lynn, will be sending out the program very soon.

Coming up in 2012

It will be a mix of the new and the old.  There will be new members – in fact during the break Hugh joined and will be at the meeting on January 18.  There will be visitors.  Several have contacted us during the break and will be coming along to see how we function and how they will benefit from joining us.  It’s alway a pleasure to experience the Icebreakers from our new members as we learn fascinating things about their background and their hopes and aspirations.

Our current members will be continuing their progress through their Speech Manuals and lifting their skills as they do so.  Awards will be completed.  Honours will be received.  Perhaps some of the Bowling Club’s overhead fans will be replaced or serviced.  Perhaps.

The website will be redesigned

Yes, it’s a great website already, but it can be better, particularly to bring it more into line with the Toastmasters International rebranding exercise carried out in 2011.  It will take about a month, but don’t be surprised if the appearance changes.  It’s a new year – we need new approaches.

We have some new Club Officers

Have a look at  the webpage showing our Current Club Officers. Three of the Officers are new this term – Greg, Heljo and Tim.

Our Officers will be attending Toastmaster Leadership Institute training in February. Apart from the benefit in their knowledge and experience, this will give us our tenth goal in the Distinguished Club Program. Our Club is the only one to have a completely unbroken record of all 10 Goals in the Program. We will be maintaining that this year as well.  You can see us leading the way in our District at Successful Clubs 2001/12.

What are your goals for this year?

We all have our own reasons for joining Victoria Quay Toastmasters.  Make certain you get what you need from our club this year.

Posted by David Nicholas DTM
Victoria Quay Webmaster
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These are for the term from January to June 2012

President Neville Simmons ACB	Vice President Education Greg Lynn CC	Vice President Membership David Nicholas	Vice President Public Relations Christine Bonser CC
Secretary Heljo Cameron ACS	Treasurer Denis Sullivan	Sergeant at Arms Tim Keats	Immediate Past President Peter Law ACB

Rod took photos of most or the 35 people present.  There is no photos of Rod – he is Christine’s partner.  Thank you, Rod

You can expand the photos in the Gallery below by single clicking them and return to the Gallery with another click. We had quite a few visitors.

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Heljo’s partner Alan can’t join Victoria Quay because he is a very active member of the choir “Showtime Chorus”.  Sometimes he is able to come to our meetings, but we don’t see enough of him.

Now we can see him and hear him with the choir on Saturday afternoon, June 18 in Shelley.

Download the Flyer to get all the details.

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David Nicholas 6 times DTM

David Nicholas has just achieved his 6th Distinguished Toastmaster award.  What an achievement.  This puts David in the top echelons of  Toastmasters from all over the world.

David, on behalf of the Victoria Quay Toastmasters Club, which David  was a founding member of 16 years ago, and its members,  I would like to congratulate you, not only for your DTM achievement but for your years of dedication, passion and mentor-ship for our club and many other clubs and members who have benefited from your assistance.

David is a skillful, supportive and positive Toastmaster who has helped many people over the years achieve their goals within TMI and in particular within  WA,  He has been a long time and influential  leader within the TM organisation and is recognised for his outstanding effort.

David has been one of the driving forces behind WA being awarded its own district.  Well done David from all of us a Victoria Quay.

Regards , Peter Law – President

It is also the end of an era and the start of a new one for WA.  WA will be breaking away from SA, Vic and Tas to form their own District 17.  It is also our last chance as WA Toastmasters to meet up with and  go up against our Eastern States partners head to head in our four speech contests.  Not only that but there will be the big dinner, ball and the birth of our new district.

Our Club will be able to pay for our club member registrations for those attending and I am thinking that will be bulk of us as a convention is worth attending, having been to last years convention.

For more information go to District 73 Website .

See you all there.

Cheers!

Peter

Richard Strickland

Richard is CEO at the State Government Department of Education Services, commonly known as DES.  Along with another prominent Toastmaster, Mike Helm, a previous District Governor, Richard has started a new Toastmaster Club – Desperados.

You can read about it on our associated website

http://toastmasterswa.net/welcome-desperados/

Recently Richard received his Competent Communicator award. Congratulations for that as well, Richard.

A small group of VQ members met last night at David and Glenis’s house for a Netmasters meeting. That’s a small club devoted to developing online meeting procedures. Most of the 8 members come from Victoria Quay.

Andrew Bond introduced us to the idea of videoed messages to our members. This is the first one. Appropriately it is about Andrew himself. Click on this link to see the 90 seconds message.

Congratulations, Andrew

We Netmasters members would be interested to read any comments you have. Fill in the box under the video.

David Nicholas
Vice President Education

On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Victoria Quay hosted the Area W21 Humorous and Table Topics Contests.  There were contestants from Victoria Quay, Gateway and CSBP Kwinana.  It was an evening full of highlights for our club.

Peter Law

The big one

Our President, Peter Law, won both Contests.  He carried off the Humorous with his “Midlife Crisis – Leave it to the Professionals” speech.  The Table Topics subject was “The most memorable dinner party”.  He recounted a military party with the Governor and some unexpected under the table activities.

The supper

Some people say that the contest detail which sticks in peoples memories is the supper.  On that test, this was the most memorable contest I have attended.  Heljo Cameron and partner Alan superintended the arrangements.  Members brought along a plate – and the food on them was plentiful, tasty and attractive looking.  Thank you everybody and particularly Heljo and Alan.

The contest officials

Area W21 Governor Tim McNamara was the Toastmaster.  He was genial, relaxed and efficient.  His careful planning meant that the whole contest flowed without a hitch.

Mark Williamson

Heljo Cameron

Mark Williamson and Heljo Cameron were the Contest Chairs.  They were faultless in their accurate, mistake free conduct.

Judith Ingle and Greg Madden kept time scrupulously.

Glenis Nicholas and Andrew Bond were tally counters.  I’m sure they were fair, supervised by Chief Judge Sandra Morton from Cannington Communicators.

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Paul Reilly and Neville Simmons were the Usher – yes, it was a double act, and it worked well.

The Judges

Area Governor Tim McNamara with the Judges

Sandra Morton was chief judge.  She was assisted by Peter McDonnell, the W10 Area Governor from Stirling Toastmasters and a judge from each of the competing clubs – Victoria Quay’s Alan Smith, Martin Lindsay from CSBP Kwinana, and Sharon Wayland from Gateway.

The audience

Over 40 people were there with 17 of our current members and five Victoria Quay visitors.  You can get details of attendance from our regular weekly summary at Week 756.  The audience was very receptive and responsive to all competitors in both contests.

Where to from now?

Peter will represent Area W21 in the Western Division final to be held on Saturday afternoon, November 6.  Victoria Quay members will be there in force to support him.

Story by David Nicholas DTM
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