Famous Quotes

Art Testani was TMoD with a theme of "Famous Quotes".

The meeting got off to a great start with the induction of two new members, Manny Bueno and Mike Chankij.

Fred Sadler amused us with an incident at the Black Bear Diner.


Mike won Best Table topics, getting off to a terrific start in Toastmasters!


And Manny was voted Most Improved:


The high points continued with Kate Daniels Kurz' #10 speech, Change the Media, Change Everything, for which she won Best Speaker:


Kate was evaluated by Jim Burlison:


Arnie Buss gave a #4 speech Listen From the Heart:


Arnie was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer, who was selected as Best Evaluator:


Finally, we honored Tom Shih as NPS Toastmasters' Toastmaster of the Year. Here is Tom being recognized by Sharon Lipinski, Club President, and Fred Sadler, Division A Governor:

Speech Contest!

It's speech contest season again - International and Table Topics! Ably led by VP Education Jim Burlison with assists from Sharon Lipinski and Carl Thormeyer, we had a fantastic contest. Representing NPS at the Area A1 contest will be:

Arnie Buss, International Speech Contest
Art Terry, Table Topics Contest

Runner-up in Table Topics was Art Testani, who will represent the club at the Area contest if Art Terry cannot.

Arnie's speech was entitled Are We Here Yet?


All the the contestants gave excellent responses and are definitely blog-worthy

Kate Daniels Kurz:


Art Testani (Runner-Up):


Scott Yeatman:


Art Terry (Winner):