Early Bird Club Officer Training

Jump start 2015 by getting your club officers trained in December 2014!

Join us for Lubbock's Club Officer Training where we will come together to train our officers, learn from each other, and share ideas. The training is open to all Toastmasters, not just club officers.

When: December 8, 2014, from 6:30pm to 9pm (central)
Where: Orlando's Restaurant at 2402 Ave Q, Lubbock, TX (in the private dining room on the south side of the restaurant.

For more information, contact Area Governors Amber Marsh or Kerry Mobley.

Don't Forget Your Club Officer Lists

As we head into the hustle and bustle that always surrounds December, don't forget to get your club's officer lists filed with Toastmasters International.

If you're electing new officers, now is the time to do so. Once you have your officers confirmed, it only takes a minute to file them and can be done by any club officer.

Just go to www.Toastmasters.org, log in with your user information, click on My Toastmasters, choose Profile, click on Club Central, and update your Club Officer information.

Stacy Cain Wins District Competition

Area 62 Governor Kerry Mobley, Stacy Cain, and Area
61 Governor Amber Marsh celebrate after Stacy's victory.

Distinguished Toastmaster Stacy Cain from Lubbock's Llano Estacado Toastmasters Club won the District 23 Speech Evaluation contest on Friday, October 24, 2014.

After being selected to represent her club, along with Taryn Colvin, another Llano member, Stacy went on to place second in the Area 61 Speech Evaluation Contest behind Articulate Toastmasters member Angelia Heare. At the Division F contest, Stacy won and moved forward to the District 23 contest where she faced off against five other competitors from all across the Oklahoma Panhandle, Western Texas, and New Mexico. After a round of six evaluations, Stacy emerged as the winner and brought the trophy back to Lubbock.

Stacy is a member of two clubs, Llano Estacado and South Plains Toastmasters. She also participates in many Toastmasters events around Lubbock such as the recent Rawls College of Business demonstration meeting.

Congratulations Stacy!

Fall 2014 - Area Contest Winners

Area Governors Amber Marsh and Kerry Mobley held the combined Area 61 & 62 contests for Evaluation and Tall Tales on September 20, 2014, at the Rawls College of Business on Texas Tech campus.

Ben Mercado, president of Eloquent Raiders, participated as the Test Speaker for the Evaluation Contest.

The first and second place winners from each contest in each Area will move on to the Division F contest on October 11, 2014.

Area 61 - Evaluation

1st Place - Angelia Heare
2nd Place - Stacy Cain

Area 61 - Tall Tales

1st Place - Crystal Collins
2nd Place - Lakshmi Muthukumar

Area 62 - Tall Tales

1st Place - Thomas Kent

* There were no contestants for the Area 62 Evaluation contest.

Test Speaker Ben Mercado

Area Governors Kerry Mobley (left) and Amber Marsh (right)
with Angelia Heare (center)

Kerry with Stacy Cain (right)

Kerry and Amber with Crystal Collins (center)

Kerry with Lakshmi Muthukumar (right)

Kerry and Amber with Thomas Kent (center)

(L to R) Amber, Kerry, Lakshmi, Taryn Colvin, Jason Davis,
Crystal, Stacy, Thomas, Angelia, and Natalie Waters

For more images and full size versions of the above photos, please visit https://plus.google.com/photos/110259574576535569916/albums/6061335283401418673 .


All photos taken by Ben Mercado (www.benmercado.com).

Area 61/62 Contests - Fall 2014

Click for the PDF flyer

The combined Area 61 & Area 62 contests for Tall Tales & Evaluation will take place on September 20, 2014, in Room 103 of the Rawls College of Business.

Contestant and judges briefings will being at 9:30am with the contests to run from 10:00am to noon.

Please see the flyer (click on the image to the right) for additional details.