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14th February 2008 - 09:34am |
Ryde District hosted the Area 25 Evaluation and International Speech Contests on 12th February, at the North Ryde Golf Club. The night was a great success and saw some very good speeches and evaluations, with the Club's contestants, Ron Condon (ISC) and Ian McWalter (EC), acquitting themselves extremely well.
The winners of the two contests, both from the Enthusiastic Epping Club, will now go on to represent Area 25 at the Hawkesbury Division Contest to be held 1st March.
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20th November 2007 - 08:35pm |
Our Christmas meeting and Party will be held on Thr 13 December @ 6:30pm at the North Ryde Golf Club, Twin Rd, North Ryde. All members, their partners and friends are very welcome! $25.00 per person for a FAB Chinese Banquet dinner & drinks with dinner provided by your TM Club. Please bring a Christmas gift (value upto $10.00).
Come along and join in a great fun evening and our last meeting for this year. Please pay your $25.00pp to Carol Orr ASAP.
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18th October 2007 - 02:16pm |
Congratulations go to Ian McWalter, who represented the Ryde District Club at the Area 25 Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests, held at the North Ryde Golf Club on 17 October. Ian won the Table Topics contest so will now go on to represent the Area at the Hawkesbury Division Contest. This will be held at Club Willoughby, cnr Penshurst Street & Crabbes Avenue, Willoughby, on Sunday 28 October at 1pm. Cost is $10 per person, which includes afternoon tea. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please RSVP to either Alison Lavick (alison@capablecom.com.au) or Kathy Stewart (hdiv@d70toastmasters.org) by Thursday 25 October.
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12th October 2007 - 08:04pm |
Our Christmas meeting and party will be held on Thursday 13 December 2007 @ 6:30pm. Please stay tuned for details of venue. This will be our last meeting for this year. We will return to Toastmasters on Thursday 24 January 2008.
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12th October 2007 - 02:32pm |
Congratulations go to Ian McWalter for winning the Club's Table Topics Contest, held at last night's meeting. Ian will now go on to represent the Club at the Area Contest to be held commencing 6.30pm on Wednesday, 17th October, at the North Ryde Golf Club. Ian will also be the Club's representative at the Humorous Speech Contest to be held the same night.
Members and guests are all welcome to attend the Area Contest. The $15 cost includes a light supper. If you would like to attend please RSVP to either Nancy Morley on area25@d70toastmasters.org or Jennifer Cox on jennifergcox@hotmail.com
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28th September 2007 - 11:42am |
The Ryde District Club was chartered on 29th September 1987, and a strong turnout of members and guests were there last night to celebrate its 20 year anniversary. In keeping with the occasion, the theme for the evening was Anniversaries.
Ken Harvey, a founding member of the Club, gave a presentation on the origins of the Club, which was for AGL employees. Having a large audience to draw from, the Club's first meeting apparently had some 300 attendees!
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26th September 2007 - 11:44am |
The Ryde District Club has formally welcomed the Labor candidate for the Federal seat of Bennelong, Maxine McKew, as an honorary member of the Club. This is the first instance in the Club's almost 20 year history that an honorary membership has been bestowed and hence is a significant appointment for the Club.
Ms McKew attended the Club's meeting on 23 August to receive her honorary membership certificate and talk to the over 50 attendees on a brief history of her life and her connection with Toastmasters.
Club President, Dinesh De Silva, who orchestrated Ms McKew's induction as a member, has also approached the Prime Minister's office with respect to presenting Mr Howard with a Toastmasters International communication achievement award.
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10th August 2007 - 09:23am |
Ryde District Toastmasters are very pleased to announce that at a special event to be held Thursday, 23rd August at 6.30pm, Maxine McKew, Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Bennelong, will be inducted as an honorary member of the Ryde District Toastmasters Club. The venue for this event is the North Ryde Golf Club, Twin Road, North Ryde.
All are welcome to attend this special event, but for organisational purposes, we would appreciate your RSVP to Dinesh on 0409 998 555 or Paul at paulyavor@hotmail.com.
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25th July 2007 - 09:39am |
The new Club Executive took office effective 1 July 2007. Officebearers are:
* President - Dinesh De Silva
* Vice President of Education - Julie Lee
* Vice President of Membership - Paul Yavor
* Vice President of Public Relations - Carol Orr
* Treasurer - Colleen Beattie
* Sergeant at Arms and Secretary - Ron Condon
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26th March 2007 - 11:13am |
Members and guests who attended Ryde's meeting on 22 March were treated to 2 very good speakers competing in the Club's International Speech Contest.
Congratulations go to Colleen Beattie for winning the contest. Colleen will now represent the Club at the area contest at 7pm on Thursday, 29 March, at the Creative Arts Centre, Dence Park, Stanley Road, Epping. The area Evaluation Contest will also be held the same night so it would be a great opportunity to go along and see some very good speakers.
Entry is free, but it would be appreciated if attendees could advise for catering purposes.
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13th March 2007 - 09:14am |
Congratulations to Ian McWalter for winning the Club's Evaluation Contest at its 8 March 2007 meeting. Unfortunately Ian will be overseas at the time of the Area contest on 29 March, so the runner up in the Club contest, Ron Condon, will be representing Ryde District instead.
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3rd March 2007 - 11:59pm |
Ryde District Toastmasters will be holding its Evaluation Contest at its next meeting on Thursday, 8th March. All financial members are eligible to compete.
Ryde will be holding its International Speech Contest at the following meeting on Thursday, 22nd March. Members must have completed six manual speeches to be eligible to compete.
Both contests will be held in the second half of each meeting, with the first half being run as per our normal agenda. Guests are more than welcome to come along to see what our Club is about and to watch the contests.
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6th December 2006 - 05:52pm |
The Ryde Club will be holding its final meeting for 2006 at The Indian Ocean restaurant in Crows Nest, on 14 December. Guests are welcome to attend - please contact Club President, Julie Lee, on 0421 598 755 for details.
Our first meeting for 2007 will be Thursday, 25 January, at our usual venue.
Best wishes to everyone for the festive season and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year.
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7th February 2006 - 09:54pm |
Ryde District Toastmasters will be roadtesting a new venue and meeting night at their first meeting in February 2006.
The meeting will be held at the North Ryde Golf Club, Twin Road, North Ryde, on THURSDAY 9th February 2006, commencing at 6.30 pm.
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5th September 2005 - 01:21pm |
Ian McWalter has continued his winning form with victory in the Club's recent Humorous Speech Contest. Ian, who also won the Club's Table Topics Contest, will now represent the Ryde District Club at the Area 25 Humorous & Table Topics contests on 5 October.
The venue for the Area contest is Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park, 26 Stanley Road, Epping. Start time is 7.00pm, and the cost of $12.00 includes a light supper.
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15th August 2005 - 03:06pm |
Congratulations to Ian McWalter for winning the Club's Table Topics Contest, held 9 August. Ian will now go on to represent the Club at the Area Contest to be held 5 October. The venue for the contest is the Epping Creative & Leisure Centre, 27 Stanley Road, Epping.
A worthy runner up to Ian was Ron Condon. Other particants were Jenni McKenzie, Sandy Campbell-Smith and Ray Andrews - all relatively new members competing in their first Club contest. If their efforts were any indication, they will certainly be giving the longer term members a run for their money in contests to come!
The Club's Humorous Speech contest is going to be held at the next meeting, on 23 August.
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3rd August 2005 - 03:39pm |
Congratulations to the following successful candidates at the recent Club election for the 2005/06 financial year:
· President John Tucker
· Vice President of Education Liam Neylon
· Vice President of Membership Julie Lee
· Vice President of Public Relations Mark Conte
· Treasurer Karen Motherwell
· Sergeant at Arms Chris Shirley
· Secretary Paul Yavor
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3rd August 2005 - 11:49am |
Ryde District will be holding its Table Topics Contest at the 9 August meeting. This is a very entertaining event where contestants all answer the same question and the winner goes on to represent the Club at the Division level.
Entry is open to all current Club members.
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22nd April 2005 - 06:56pm |
Elections will be held for Club Executive roles at the meeting on 10th May. Roles are based on the financial year (July 2005 to June 2006) and are a really good way to get to understand how the Club operates.
The current Committee are listed below, so if you have any questions on any of the roles, they will be more than happy to assist:
· President Carol Orr
· Vice President of Education Ross Duker
· Treasurer Julie Lee
· Vice President of Membership Thi Nguyen
· Vice President of Public Relations Phil Ratcliffe
· Sergeant at Arms Ron Condon
· Secretary Paul Yavor
If you're a current financial member, you're eligible for any of these roles, so why not give it a go!
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22nd April 2005 - 06:40pm |
Congratulations to Ian McWalter, who won the recent Area 25 Evaluation Contest and will now represent the Area at the Hawkesbury Division Evaluation Contest to be held Saturday 7th May, 2005. The venue is the Melaleuca Room, Cromer Private Golf Club, commencing at 7 p.m. The $35 cost includes canapιs, buffet dinner, dessert platters and tea/coffee. Please visit the following link for more details: http://www.d70toastmasters.org/pdf_flyers/HDivFlyer.pdf
Ian was also runner-up at the recent Area 25 International Speech Contest.
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15th April 2005 - 04:22pm |
Congratulations to Ian McWalter, who won both the Club's Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests at our meeting on 8th March. Ian will now go on to represent Ryde District at the Area 25 contest to be held at the Gladesville Bowling & Sports Club on 17th March, commencing at 6.30 p.m.
Worthy runners-up to Ian were Paul Yavor for the Evaluation Contest, and Ron Condon for the Humorous Speech Contest.
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27th May 2004 - 04:39pm |
Congratulations to Allison Lyall our first ever contestant to make it to District level (state finals) for the Speech Evaluation Contest.
I am advised that although Allison did not win the final, she performed outstandingly.
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2nd September 2003 - 09:39pm |
Congratulations to Ian McWalter on winning the club's Humorous Speech Contest. Runner up was Ron Condon.
We wish him the best of luck as he goes on to represent the club at the Area level competition.
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12th February 2003 - 04:51pm |
Congratulations to Ian McWalter for winning the club's International Speech competition last night.
Runner-up was Allison Orr.
We wish Ian the best of luck for the Area competition on March the 7th.
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30th September 2001 - 10:37pm |
The evening started off with a historical review from Ross Duker (one of the club's founding members). Ross had contacted many of the club's past presidents and read out messages to the club from those that could not be present on the night.
The club's other founding member, Ken Harvey, gave a toast to the club's past and to the future.
After two short assignments, a mammoth Table Topics session (19 questions!) and the final evaluations and closing remarks, the meeting was closed and most of those present went to enjoy the food and champagne that had been prepared.
The raffle's main prize (a Sony Playstation) was won by Ross Jamieson.
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