A New Distinguished Toastmaster in DSTM

Denise Cothern was recognized for completing her DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster Award) at the Hall of Fame luncheon at the District 50 Conference today. Denise sets a tremendous example by selecting a date for this achievement and completing it on schedule!

Be sure to congratulate Denise for her incredible effort. Fantastic work, Denise! We're proud you are part of our club!

DSTM Awarded 1st Place for "Outstanding Website"

Dallas Singles Toastmasters has been awarded first place in the "Sparkling Pixel Award" recognizing Outstanding Websites, at the District 50 Conference. This award for Spring 2010 was presented at the Hall of Fame luncheon during the Conference on Saturday, May 22nd. The banner graphic on our website now includes a promotion of this honor.

Dallas Singles Toastmasters last won the award for Outstanding Website in Fall 2007. This is the first Conference that DSTM was eligible for consideration again.

Second Place was awarded to Penny Partners, Third Place went to Plano Presenters, and Honorable Mentions were awarded to Plano West and Speak Up Frisco.

Please check back for photos from the Conference, which we hope to have up soon!

May 13 Meeting

Congratulations to our winners of May 13th, meeting.

The Best Speaker was our guest Zhanat Ellison, good job, Zhanat, Extraordinary speech.

The best Evaluator was Kristin Herring, evaluating Zhanat. She was in this role for the first time and did a great job.

And the last but not least - the Best of the Big Three was Susie Campbell, our Toastmaster for this meeting.

Great job Susie, she made the meeting very well-organized as well as very informative, we all got tips how to get prepared for a successful interview!

Meeting of April 15, 2010

Congratulations to the winners of our last meeting. It was full of new people and interesting speeches, our club is definitely growing.

The winner of the Best Speech was Stephanie Lewis, who had her first speech and hit the ground running by impressing our toastmasters with the speech “The Lazy Perfectionist”. Who would say that she was shy? Good job, Stephanie.

The prize for the Best Evaluator goes to Mark Schroeder. It seems like there is nothing to add, he was great, very attentive to detail, gave great feedback, well-deserved winner.

And the best of the Big Three was yours truly, Zarina Sullivan. Nothing to add there, thank you for voting for me, folks

March 25th Winners

Congratulations to Lee King with the best speech “The End”. It was wonderful to see him accomplish his 40th speech in Toastmasters. Here-Here to the true Toastmaster!

Best Table Topics Master was Susie Campbell, boy she likes those Carpenters, inspired many to listen to them again.

Rus McCoy does not like to be called on Table Topics when being the General Evaluator. He likes to be perfect in one area and not deviate from his role, which helped him win the Best of the Big Three this meeting.

We also had 5 guests joining us, hope to see them come again, although Allen Gorman warned us not to come if we are in a sensitive mood. What can I say, Dallas Singles Toastmasters are full of surprises!

January 28th Meeting Winners

Last meeting was accompanied by a heavy rain, which did not stop our guests from coming. Our regulars warmly welcomed 5 possible new members, who definitely liked our friendliness and cheers - bad weather can’t stop us from enjoying our meetings.

Congratulations to the winners of shiny ribbons:
Jin Wang won the contest as the best speaker with her speech on the longest word in the English Language. It turned out to be the word “Smiles”.
Sharleen Taylor won the best table topic with her Winter Tale.
Allen Gorman won the best of the Big Three.

Hope to see our new members coming,
See you next meeting.