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A splendid Victorian start to 2015 – 6th & 8th January

As befitted our first meeting in 2015, the theme of the evening of Tuesday 6th of January toastmastered by our Vice-President Education Fahad Alturkait was New Year resolutions. Timekeeper Anne was in charge of our lights for her first role in the club – well done Anne! – And grammarian Edwin offered us “anew” as word of the day.

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Toastmaster of the evening Fahad!

The first speaker of the evening was Ross Colman “2014 – a bad year for aviation safety?” His answer to this question was a very firm no and we embarked on a journey across the various safety systems equipping modern airliners for fire extinguishers in engines to collision avoidance mechanisms. Kohinoor followed with the first speech from the Entertaining Speaker manual titled “New Year Resolutions”. Our professional speaker Sergey concluded the prepared speeches, with an interactive seminar “how to create a powerful story” using a cartoon from 1898 as imagination trigger.

Sergey's seminar
Sergey’s seminar

Evaluators Florian, Warren and George then entered the fray highlighting among other points the importance of vocal variety and a strong beginning and conclusion. A table topics session in which several of our very numerous guests that evening followed, led by Marina.

Thursday 8th of January also several club members and Toastmasters from all over London doing a demonstration meeting in Cardinal Place. A highly interactive meeting focusing on table topics took place, led by Sergey as Toastmaster. Our shiny new banner led the marketing blitz by the escalators to hundreds of offices working whizzing by, most of them with a leaflet “London Victorians – Conquer your fear of public speaking” in their hands!

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London Victorians – Conquer your fear of public speaking!

London Victorians committee would like to thank Land Securities for their help and support in making this demonstration meeting possible.