Amy Zientek Receives Rising Star Award

Amy Zientek

Toastmasters member Amy Zientek received the Texas Travel Industry Association's Rising Star Award on September 23, 2013, for her leadership and commitment to the Texas Travel industry.

The full story can be found here: http://www.kcbd.com/story/23506503/visit-lubbocks-amy-zientek-receives-acclaimed-award

Amy is the director of sales for Visit Lubbock and has been a member of the Toasters Club for 5 years.  http://www.LubbockToasters.com

Congratulations Amy!

Area 61/62 Humorous and Evaluation Contest Results

Lt. Governor Marketing Jef Conn welcomes the
audience to the Area 61 & 62 Fall Contests

The Texas Tech School of Law, home to the Eloquent Raiders club, hosted the Area 61 & 62 Humorous Speech and Evaluation contests this morning.

Area Governors Ernee Kozyreff and Uwe Beltz put the contest together and recruited Jef Conn, our district's Lieutenant Governor Marketing, to take the role of Toastmaster.  Additionally, Ernee covered the chief judge duties while Uwe embraced the role of test speaker for the Evaluation contest.

The first and second place finishers will advance to the Division F contest on Saturday, October 5th, at the Texas Tech School of Law.

The contest results are:

Area 61 - Humorous Speech	Area 62 - Humorous Speech
1st - Amber Marsh	1st - Patrick McMahan
2nd - Weston Waldo
3rd - Lakshmi Muthu Kumar
Area 61 - Evaluation	Area 62 - Evaluation
1st - Zhiqiang Wu	1st - Tim Evans
2nd - Lakshmi Muthu Kumar

Area 61 Humorous - Lakshmi Kumar, Jef Conn, and
Weston Waldo (Amber Marsh not pictured)

Area 62 Humorous - Jef Conn and Patrick McMahan

Area 61 Evaluation - Zhiqiang Wu, Jef Conn, and
Lakshmi Kumar

Area 62 Evaluation - Jef Conn and Tim Evans

Jef interviews the contestants

Uwe Beltz delivers the test speech for the
Evaluation contest

Good luck at Division, everyone!

Eloquent Raiders - Sponsor & Mentor

Congratulations to Yukun Chen and Stacy Cain for getting their Club Sponsor and Club Mentor awards, respectively, for their work with Lubbock's newest club, Eloquent Raiders.

The Club Sponsor and Club Mentor roles are important for the successful growth of new Toastmasters clubs.  Because of the work involved, this process is one of the biggest steps towards achieving the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award.  Having completed this, Yukun is one step closer to her DTM.  For Stacy, it was the last step remaining before she earned her DTM, so she sent in the paperwork for both at the same time.

Congratulations ladies!  And thank you for helping Lubbock's newest club get off to a great start!

Yukun shows off her Club Sponsor certificate.

Llano Estacado president Amber Marsh (left) presents
Stacy Cain with her DTM plaque.

Lubbock's Second TLI

Area 61 Governor Ernee Kozyreff started Lubbock's second TLI with a discussion of the distinguished club program.

Uwe Beltz, Area 62 Governor, followed up with club officer responsibilities. 

Past Area 62 Governor Robyne Vaughn spoke on the importance of mentoring as well as giving tips on the process before passing the stage to Lt. Governor Marketing Jef Conn who encouraged the attendees with methods for membership building.

Lubbock is Distinguished!

Six clubs in Lubbock and both Areas in Lubbock received Distinguished honors from Toastmasters International.

Distinguished Clubs

Distinguished clubs are clubs that have met at least five of the ten goals in the Distinguished Club Program and have either

• an active membership of 20 or more members,
• or, a net gain of 5 members from the start of the year.

Distinguished Clubs (5 or 6 DCP goals achieved)

• South Plains Toastmasters

President's Distinguished Clubs (9 or 10 DCP goals achieved)

• Articulate Club
• Downtown Club
• Lubbock Club
• Toasters Club

(A Select Distinguished status exists for clubs achieving either 7 or 8 goals and meeting the membership requirements.)

Distinguished Areas

Both Area 61 and Area 62 also achieved Distinguished status.

Area 61 achieved Distinguished status by having 50% of the clubs in the Area achieve Distinguished status. Those clubs were the Articulate and Lubbock clubs.

Area 62 achieved President's Distinguished status by having 50% of the clubs in the Area plus one achieve Distinguished status as well as adding one new clubs to the Area.  The Distinguished clubs were Downtown, South Plains, and Toasters.  The new club was Eloquent Raiders.