Capital City Toastmasters

Capital City friends,

Although I’ve been asked not to recap last night’s toastmaster happy hour (wink), allow me to sum up the stellar evaluations contest we had last week!!!

The thrill of an icebreaker! The agony of the icebreaker being evaluated FOUR times! Brian “the ringer” Monroe, visiting from Austin Toastmasters, threw the evaluators for a loop with his hilarious near-Darwin Award stories. All the evaluators had different styles, but still agreed: Brian’s a natural! Patrick empathized while Corky proselytized, trying to convert Brian to his Italian brand of speaking. Amy enthusiastically encouraged Brian, and then finally Rey succinctly summarized his successful speaking debut!!! They ALL deserve two thumbs WAY up! But like the highlander, there can be only one….

…drum roll please…

3rd place went to Patrick Reznik!!
2nd place went to Amy Samet!!
1st place in Capital City’s Fall 2008 Evaluations Contest went to REYNETTA DEVEAU!!!

Congratulations and thank you to all who participated in the contest! Especially our toastmaster Keith, who warmed up the crowd, and then turned the heat up, cracking us up all the way to the end. Who else would ask the evaluation contestants what the other contestants could have done better?!!

Thanks again to all our judges for making this an official and unbiased contest!

See you all for the Tall Tales Contest next week!!!