Durack Toastmasters

The membership of Durack Toastmasters today set the challenge to beat Victoria Quay Toastmasters and be the first club in the District to achieve distinguished status in the coming year.

Each year, Toastmasters International awards clubs that have performed well in the year starting from the 1st of July. The club members need to achieve their educational awards, new members have to be attracted, and the administrative duties of the club need to be performed. For the past five years straight, Durack has achieved the highest possible award award, the President’s Distinguished Club. This has also been achieved by Victoria Quay and the two clubs are nearly always the first to achieve it for the district, which includes Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia.

“We have a great deal of respect for the Victoria Quay club,” said Durack President Michael Malone. “But Durack is that little bit better. So in the coming year, we’re going to prove it by taking the flag again.”

The race is on.

Thank you to the members who have volunteered to be our office bearers for the coming year:

President: Michael Malone
VP Education: Emily Tonks
Secretary: Rachelina
Treasurer: Gil Alexander
VP Membership: Robert Twomey
VP PR: Pascale Amberville-Colby
Sergeant at Arms: Marlena Brabant

We’re looking forward to another successful year for Durack and all our members.

Durack Toastmasters will be taking from the usual weekly meetings. Our first meeting of the new year will be on Thursday morning, 17 January, 2008, at the normal time of 7am.

We wish all our members a happy and safe Christmas break and look forward to seeing you all in 2008.

Durack member Gil Alexander has updated a presentation which tells a bit about our club and why you should consider joining. It is available as a PDF file:

The Club contest was held on Thursday, August 8th. The event was very ably hosted by Steve Winton, in his first time as Contest Chairman.

The winner of the Humorous Contest was Dean Brickell, with a speech about his obsession with renovating. He narrowly pipped Pascale Amberville-Colby, who spoke about the fight pit he organised in his school days. Both speeches were very well received by the audience.

The table topics (impromptu speaking) contest had six contestants. The question was about apologising, how to do it and when. All the male contestants (and one female!) said that they didn’t apologise at all! Bernice told us that Medhat did apologise sometimes, if he really stuffed up, but only ever by email.

The winner of this contest was Pascale.
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Dean and Pascale advance now to the Area Contest, which is being held at 6.30pm on Wednesday the 5th of September. It will be held in the Durack meeting room, on the ground floor of 263 Adelaide Terrace.

The meeting on August 16th will be a contest meeting. Guests and interested parties are very welcome to attend! The meeting will include two contests: humourous speaking and impromptu speaking. Guests are most welcome to attend, but just bear in mind that this is not a “usual” meeting.

Congratulations to Michael Malone, who was presented with his Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award at the meeting this morning on August 9th. Michael is the first member of Durack Toastmasters to receive the DTM Award, the highest award available in Toastmasters. The award was presented by David Nicholas, who has himself completed the DTM four times!

Club Founder, Gil Alexander, actually completed the requirements for his DTM back in May, but his award is pending.