Sunday, August 17, 2008
Toastmasters Club holds Award Ceremony 8/7/08
Les Apps (as Parker Chiropractic Seminars President Dr. Fabrizio Mancini), presented the ‘Chiropractor of the Year’ award to Dr. Todd Austin (left) at Thursday’s Tri-County Toastmasters meeting. It is an award that Austin received in January 2001 at a Parker Seminar in Las Vegas. Both Apps and Austin are working from an Advanced Toastmasters manual on ‘Special Occasion Speeches’.
The Tri-County Toastmasters club met on Thursday 8-7-08 at the Virden Area Community Center. Club members present at Thursday’s meeting were: Les Apps from Girard, Dr. Todd Austin from Virden, Jim Blankenship from New Berlin, John Davidson, Liz Mollett from Auburn, Casey Tom and Bill Watkins.
During business, the club announced that they will hold a special joint club officers training session with 3 other clubs being invited to the next meeting on 8-21-08.
Billy Watkins served as the meeting’s master of ceremonies. Liz Mollett conducted a ‘wonders of the human body’ themed Tabletopics (the impromptu speaking portion of the program). Each participant was to give a 1 to 2 minute impromptu response to a different question.
The evening’s two prepared speaker were Les Apps and Todd Austin. Both are working from the Advanced Communications manual which is entitled ‘Special Occasion Speeches’. Two of the five speeches in this manual are ‘Presenting an Award’ and ‘Accepting an Award’. Apps portrayed Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, the President of the Parker Chiropractic Seminars as he presented the ‘Year 2000 GTO Chiropractor of the Year Award’ to Dr. Todd W. Austin in a 4-minute award presentation. Austin, a Virden Chiropractic Physician for the past 11 years, who actually received this award 8 ½ years ago at a seminar in Las Vegas, graciously accepted the award in a 6-minute presentation. Jim Blankenship and John Davidson were the speech evaluators.
The Toastmasters club will next meet on Thursday August 21, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the Virden Area Community Center. For more information about the Toastmasters program, or about joining or attending a club meeting, please call (217) 965-3100 or send e-mail to draustin@royell.net.
