Fellow Toastmasters, Looking ahead… Let’s all mark February 16, 2012 as a special date on our calendars.  That is the date of Heights Toastmasters’ International Speech Contest & Table Topics Contest. This kick-off announcement is being made now to keep it from getting lost in any end-of-year festivities - and to provide ample time to prepare. Additional details for both Contests will be distributed in early January. Veteran members have experience in these annual Contests and many

Guests and new members often ask us what a typical speech is like.  It sounds like cliche, but there is no “typical” speech, because everyone and every talk is different.  Instead, here’s a random speech that we happened to record.  The only thing to generalize from this video is that your speeches (and everyone  else’s) will be different.

Congratulations to the winners of our August 19th 2010 Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests. Jonthan Wegener (VP Education) won 1st place in the Humorous Speech Contest.  Steve Cox won 1st place in the Table Topics Contest and Camille Branda won 2nd place in that competition. Jonathan, Steve, and Camille have earned the opportunity to compete in the Area 22 Contests on September 14. We wish them continued good