On Saturday, September 13th, Angi Anderson and Tito DeJesus won the Area A-1 Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests respectively at the combined Area A1 / Area A2 event held at the Agricultural Center in Salinas. This is the second year in a row that NPS Toastmasters swept both contests!
Angi's masterful and humorous assessment of Dave Empey's test speech about the proper use of English grammar won her top honors over four other excellent evaluations. Her spot-on insights were coupled with delightful humor and suggestions for enhancing an already successful speech.
Tito honed his speech about his favorite island paradise off the coast of the US (New York City) to a fine edge of wit and poignacy - wrapped up in a presentation so seasoned that he looked like a ten year veteran of Toastmasters. Four other very humorous presentations were surpassed by Tito's effort which was another level better than his performance at our club contest two weeks ago.
Other NPS players at the Area Contest included Carl Thormeyer as Humorous Contest Chief Judge, Chance Litton as Evaluation Contest Toastmaster, Fred Sadler and Art Testani as judges, and Emilie Staryak as Chief Ballot Counter.
Angi and Tito will now compete at the Division Contest in Aptos on Saturday October 11th. The winners there will move on to the finals at the District Contest in Santa Clara on November 14-15, 2008.
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