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Farmer Advances
to Area International and Humorous Speech Contests
Greenville Toastmasters…
Bob Farmer, celebrating his sixth anniversary as a Greenville
Toastmaster, will compete on Thursday, March 15 in the Area 8 speech
contests in Dayton, Ohio.
Farmer placed first in both the International Speech Contest and the
Evaluation Speech Contest in the Greenville Toastmasters club.
The Greenville Toastmasters sponsors the club-level contests to
encourage the club members’ development of speaking and evaluation
skills and to recognize the best as encouragement to all and to provide
members an opportunity to learn by observing the more proficient
speakers and evaluators who have benefited from their Toastmasters
training.
Farmer’s speech Who? Where? Why? A Winner! challenged the
audience to consider the answers to three questions when striving to
understand oneself and achieving life’s goals. His speech was
judged on originality, speech content, organization, voice quality,
gestures and timing.
Farmer also placed first in the evaluation contest. This contest
is judged on analytical quality, recommendations, techniques, and
summation. Providing evaluations is a skill that Toastmasters
hone in the learn-by-doing meetings that are held twice a month.
Members are encouraged to participate in local, area, and district
contests in an effort to foster self-confidence and personal growth in
communication and leadership skills.
W.R. “Bud” Watkins, a professional guest speaker and humorist from
Bellefontaine, Ohio, tickled the audience with a tale of two dogs,
while igniting realizations about various life lessons suggested in the
tale.
Greenville Toastmasters Club meets at Chestnut Hall located inside the
Chestnut Village Center in the Brethren Retirement Community at 7:00 PM
on second and fourth Tuesdays. Members work from basic
communication and leadership manuals before advancing to specialized
speaking skills in areas of public relations, management, technical
presentations, persuasive speaking, storytelling, humorous speaking,
specialty speeches, and other advanced communication programs.
For information about local Toastmasters clubs, visit http://www.toastmasters.org
or http://Greenville.freetoasthost.com.
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