D53 Fall 2005 Contest News

• From Club, to Area, to Division, and now ... the District 53 Table Topics Speech Contest Winners.

  1st Place	Bruce Cornwell of West-Conn Toastmasters, Club #599, Div A
  2nd Place	Doug Comstock of Windsor Toastmasters, Club #4745, Div B
  3rd Place	Hugh Hughes of Nutmeg Toastmasters, Club #764, Div D
  l to r: Gilda Bonanno, Hugh Hughes, Bruce Cornwall, Doug Comstock Contestmaster Gilda Bonanno asked the TT question: "What advice would you give someone graduating from college today?"

• From Club, to Area, to Division, and now ... the District 53 Humorous Speech Contest Winners.

  1st Place	Perryetta Edwards of Bank of America TST, Club #9100, Div F
  2nd Place	Jeremy Ulrich of Greater Stamford Toastmasters, Club #865, Div D
  3rd Place	Ravi Kulkarni of Pioneer Valley Toastmasters, Club #3902, Div E
  l to r: DG Paul Young, Perryetta Edwards, and ID Rodger Baker l to r: DG Paul Young, Jeremy Ulrich, and ID Rodger Baker l to r: DG Paul Young, Ravi Kulkarni, and ID Rodger Baker

• Division A Speech Contests - A Night of Entertainment
  Speakers from 4 Areas competed in the Division A speech contests on October 19 in Danbury, CT. The event was hosted by the West-Conn Club #599 at the Wooster School library. Division A Governor Karin von Kaenel was the Contest Chair. Past International Director Bob Bradshaw was the Chief Judge.
• The Division A Humorous Speech Contest Winners are
1. Belle Garafola - Barnum Squares Toastmasters #1701
   Belle's speech title was "My seventh road test"
2. David Alexander - Putnam Speaks Toastmasters #4839
   Dave's speech title was "MRI: Magnetic Resonance or Medieval Torture"
   
   left to right: Adam Izzo, David Alexander, and Belle Garafola
• Contestmaster Karin von Kaenel offered an interesting quote from Helen Keller "Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." then asked "What are your thoughts on security?" Table Topics Contest Winners are :
1. Marta Anders of Henry Hudson Toastmasters, Club #4507
2. Bruce Cornwell of West-Conn Toastmasters, Club #599
   
   left to right: Sanjeev Shukla, Marta Anders, Bruce Cornwell, and David Alexander
    
• Division B Speech Contests - A Night of Entertainment
  Speakers from 5 Areas competed in the Div B Humorous Speech and the Table Topics Speech Contests on October 11 in Hartford, CT. The event was hosted by the Stag TM Club #2908, at The Hartford, T22 Tower Suite. Area B4 Governor Marsha Kiley was the Contestmaster and Area B5 Governor Andrew Bernard was the Chief Judge.
• Division B Humorous Speech Contest Winners are:
  1. Steve Gondek (9617 - CIGNA Lunchtime) with a humorous "3 B P" campaign for president.
  2. William Hoyt (6613 - One State Street) with "The Bear Facts" - relating a tale of suspense in wild woods of "country" Connecticut.
  3. Joe Zafian (919 - Greater Hartford) with "The General Evaluation" a mosaic many memorable Toastmasters meetings.
     
     l to r: William Hoyt (2nd), Joseph Zafian (3rd), and Steve Gondek (1st)
      
• Contestmaster Marsha Kiley asked (or requested) " ... tell us your most frightening Halloween experience and why this is so? " The Division B Table Topics Contest Winners are:
  1. Doug Comstock (4745 - Windsor )
  2. Katherine Stewart-Kelly (2532 - Travelers Noon Time)
  3. Roger Gatto (3610 - Aetna Life & Casualty)
     l to r: Katherine Stewart-Kelly (2nd), Roger Gatto (3rd), and Doug Comstock (1st)
      
• Division C Speech Contests - A Night of Entertainment
  Speakers from 6 Areas competed in the Div C Humorous Speech and the Table Topics Speech Contests on October 17 at the Niantic Community Church, home of the new Niantic Community Church Toastmasters. President of the Groton Toastmasters club and current Club Coach Lynnea Mahlke was Contestmaster. Division C Governor Shelly Hathaway was Chief Judge. The Contest Master created quite a fright as Death, declaring that most people were even more afraid of public speaking.
• Division C Humorous Speech Contest Winners are
  1. Bosco D'Souza (3176 - Energy) with a humorous look at that ongoing question "What do women really want?"
  2. Gary Mandelburg (4474 - Pflying Toasters) with "Kids R Fun"
  3. Kenneth Benjamin (6976 - Air Line Trail) with "Ch-ch-ch-changes"
• The Contestmaster offered an open ended question asking "If you could be an animal, what would it be and why?" The Division C Table Topics Contest Winners are :
  1. Frank Kane (6976 - Air Line Trail) - can you picture Frank as a big fish?
  2. P.J. Kamani (931 - Charter Oak)
  3. Amanda Randolph (3161 - Eagle)
     
     l to r: Frank Kane, Amanda Randolph, Kenneth Benjamin, Gary Mandelburg, Bosco D'Souza and P.J. Kamani
      
• Division D Speech Contests - A Night of Entertainment
  Speakers from 5 Areas met at the Yale University Bass Building in New Haven, CT to compete in the Division D Humorous and Table Topics Contests. The event was hosted by The Greater New Haven Toastmasters Club #5436
• Humorous Speech Contest Winners are
1. Jeremy Ulrich (865 - Greater Stamford Toastmasters)
   "An Interesing Flight Delay"
2. Bruce Carter (1065 - Park City)
   "Trapped In My Cell"
   
   l to r: Div D Gov Susan Troupe, Jeremy Ulrich, and DG Paul Young
    
• The Table Topic Contestmaster asked "Which has been the greatest influence on your personality and character development, your heredity or your childhood circumstances?"
• Table Topics Contest Winners
  Question asked "Which has been the greatest influence on your personality and character development, your heredity or your childhood circumstances?"
1. Hugh Hughes (764 - Nutmeg)
2. Barbara Rompre (1628 - Brass City)
   l to r: Hugh Hughes, Div D Gov Susan Troupe, and DG Paul Young
    
• Division E Speech Contests - A Night of Entertainment
• Division E Humorous Speech Contest Winners
1. Ravi Kulkarni (3902 - Pioneer Valley)
   "My most honorable fulfilling job"
2. George Nagelschmidt (3853 - Last Word)
   "Don't feed the animals"
3. Linda Lankowski (6081 - Springfield)
   "Why does she wear the hats?"
• Division E Table Topics Contest Winners
  Question asked "There have been numerous natural disasters - hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. If you could change one item on how the relief efforts were handled, what would it be."
1. Marilyn Jess - (3853 - Last Word)
2. Mary Kate Jordan (8792 - Southern Berkshire)
    
• Division F Speech Contests - A Night of Entertainment
  A wonderful night at the Brookside Museum, Ballston Spa, New York--weather
  fair, crowd overflowing, powerful contestant effort, and a very supportive
  audience..that's how to describe the October 25th Table Topics & Humorous
  Speech Contests! Division F Areas were well represented for the event
  hosted by Club 7379, Thorobreds.
• Division F Humorous Speech Contest Winners
1. Perryetta Edwards (9100 - Bank of America TST)
   "A trip to Virginia"
2. Dianne Mosher (1138 - Uncle Sam)
   "Mrs. Mom"
3. Robert Henke (9988 - Washington County)
   "The Saga Of 60-D"
• Division F Table Topics Contest Winners
  Question asked " not available "
1. Joe Purcell (1931 - Mohawk)
2. Jabbar Fagan (6560 - Lunchtime)
3. Sandra (Sandy) Buxton (9988 - Washington County)