Vol. 3 No. 4 South Main Speakers, District 56, Club 8609 April 2008
In This Issue
President’s
• President's Corner Corner
• Anniversaries
Renay Jacob, Ranjith Poduval, Vivek Rajan April Grand Slam!
By Vivian Li, CC
• Calendar of Events
What a way to start out our grand slam month of April with the
Tennis/Wii Tennis Grand Slam Tournament
excellent Education Session on evaluation and the magnificent
Division International Speech and Evaluation Contests
speeches heard at the area contest from the last days of March
still lingering on our minds.
• Features
“Clown School 101” by Erika Parrish Congratulations to Jian Wang for placing 2nd in the Evaluation
“Destination Marfa, Pop. 2,121 + 1” by Vivian Li Contest, and yours truly for placing 3rd in the International
Photos from Special Evaluation Education Session Speech Contest! Thank you to all who participated and consider
competing in the fall contests, they’ll be here before you know it!
• Ask the Master
How to get a standing ovation? Kudos to Jan Poscovsky and your VP-Education Jian Wang for
successfully leading an enlightening and important education
session on how to give effective evaluations. Most of us may
have joined Toastmasters to improve our public speaking skills,
but we all soon learn how integral good evaluation skills are to
The South Main Monthly is a monthly publication of the our personal development too, from giving constructive feedback
South Main Speakers Toastmasters club. We meet every to a colleague to choosing which restaurant to eat at for lunch.
Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in 10305 South Main Street
(Houston Chinese Church), Room 411. For more And now on to what's in store for us this month. Many thanks to
information, please visit our website at: Grace and Bob Hu, who have generously invited us to their home
http://groups.msn.com/southmainspeakers to hold our inaugural Grand Slam Doubles Tennis/Wii Tennis
Tournament! I hope many of you will be inspired by the
If you have any comments, contributions, or suggestions beautiful weather to practice your swing for this event on April
concerning this or future issues, please send them to 20. Sign up to participate with our lovely Toastmaster for this
vrajan@gmail.com. Thank you for reading! event, Mary Deng. And make sure to bring your friends, it'll be a
great opportunity to introduce more people to Toastmasters!
-Vivek Rajan, Editor
Anniversaries
Annie
New Member Spotlight Brenda
Mary
Last month we had a new member join our Jeanne
club! Please give a warm welcome to our Renay
Bob
newest member – Gufeng Xu.
Grace
Shabnam
Steffan
Jian
Francis