Two from Two

Congratulations to Spinnaker Club’s Gary Nicholson for scooping the Area Speech Champion awards at the Area J1 Speech contests on 3 October.

Gary’s award winning International speech called “Three Little Words” obviously struck a chord with the judges, and his evaluation of Roger’s speech “The Problem for Baby Boomers”, also hit the mark.

The full results are:

Evaluation Speech
1st – Gary Nicholson
2nd – Tony Cross
3rd – Glenys Brown

Above: Area J1 Evaluation Contestants – from left: Contest Chair Dale holding online contestant David Friggens’ Participation Certificate, Tony Cross, Gary Nicholson, Sam McGuire, Glenys Brown.

Above: Area J1 Evaluation Contest Winners: Centre, Gary Nicholson 1st, Tony Cross 2nd, Glenys Brown 3rd, with Contest Chair Dale Hartle.

International Speech
1st – Gary Nicholson
2nd – Glenys Brown
3rd – Tony Cross

Above: Area J1 International Speech contestants: from left, Angela, holding online contestant David Friggens’ Participation Certificate, Fenli Chen, Gary Nicholson, Tony Cross, Glenys Brown.

Above: Area J1 International Contest winners: Centre, 1st Gary Nicholson; 2nd Glenys Brown; 3rd Tony Cross, with Contest Chair Angela Randall.

Congratulations to all the contestants who put a lot of time into preparing for the contests and representing their clubs.

Gary will now go on to represent Spinnaker at the Division J Contests.

If you’re curious to find out what it takes to prepare and deliver a contest-winning speech, then come along to the next Spinnaker Toastmasters Club meeting. Contact us on spinnaker@toastmasters.org.nz to let us know you’re interested and we’ll send you an invitation.