The Person We Become

by Walter Marria, Jr., Division H Governor

Mary Carol Holbert, Debra Osborne, Walter Marria

“Together we aspire. Together we achieve” was the sound echoing throughout the Division H Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. The contest was held October 5, 2013 in Tallahassee. In attendance were District 84 Lt. Governor of Education & Training DTM Mary Carol Holbert and District 84 Fall Conference Chair DTM Sheila Williams. The theme was Trinidad and Tobago and the atmosphere was all Caribbean.

The winners of the Evaluation Contest were:
1st  Place Debra Osborne
2nd Place Don Thompson
3rd Place Louis Sloan

Mary Carol Holbert, Louis Sloan, Walter Marria

Humorous Speech Contest Winners were:
1st Place Louis Sloan
2nd Place Beth McGrotha
3rd Place Dennis Scarry

First place winners Debra Osborne and Louis Sloan will represent Division H at the District 84 Fall Conference Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Speech contests are not all about taking home a trophy. The greatest prize any contestant or attendee can take away from a contest is the person they become through the process of competing or to be inspired by the contestants. Earl Nightingale said, “We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.” For some of us, our light is turned on when we are competing or when we are attendees at a speech contest. Toastmasters helps us turn on our light or uses us to turn on someone else’s light.