Monthly Archives: March 2010

Tanya Kovarsky wins Ballantyne award

Tanya Kovarsky was awarded the James Ballantyne Trophy for 2009.

The James Ballantyne trophy is yearly awarded to a club member for excellence in serving the goals and objectives of CIS Toastmasters and Toastmasters International. The trophy was presented to her at the 2nd of March meeting by Nico du Plessis.
She won the trophy for starting [...]

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CIS Toastmasters meeting held on 16 March 2010

Our President, Deleen Levy, said, in welcoming members to the meeting, that communication influences our business skills more than any other qualification. Confidence in public speaking is built by experience in standing before an audience and presenting our speeches.
The more frequently we speak before an audience the quicker we will build our self-esteem and [...]

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CIS captures George

It has been a while that CIS toastmasters wanted to capture George “The travelling gavel.” This goal was finally achieved on the 23rd of February.

CIS Toastmasters swooped down to get George from the Hatch Toastmaster Club. We beat the Transformer Club to the post as they had four representatives and we had seven. [...]

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