May 2014 - District 70 Toastmasters

Same, same but different –
a top annual conference!
It certainly was as the theme suggested, “Same,
same but different” and this year’s Annual District
70 Conference was an outstanding success.
The organising team, ably led by Past District Governor
Cheryl Keane, is to be congratulated for a mighty effort
and great results.
In this issue of D70 News, we have the conference
news... including contest results (below) and details of
officer elections for the coming year (next page).
Our cover photos undoubtedly encapsulate three of the
main conference highlights...
The visit by International President George
Yen and the International Speech and
Evaluation Contests.
Pictured above: International President
George Yen and his wife Jorie with entertainer
Jahmarley Dawson on the Friday opening night
(a brilliant introduction to Australia
for our visitors!)...
Centre: District 70 International Speech
Contest winner David Griffiths (Phillip
Division) with runner-up Matt Tonkiss
(Lachlan) and third placegetter
B Rewers (Southern)...
Bottom: District 70 Evaluation
Contest winner Gerard Barwell
(Hawkesbury), runner-up David
Griffiths (Phillip) and third
placegetter Matt Tonkiss
(Lachlan).
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The new leadership team
There were many highlights of this year’s Annual
Conference, fun, fellowship, educationals, and
inspirational messages.
But one of the most important was the election
of the District Leadership Team that will take us
through-2015.
And this year is very different to previous years as
we elected two sets of lieutenant governors for what
is the transition year to the reformation of District 70
into two new districts.
David Fisher (pictured at right) was elected
unopposed as District Governor for-2015.
Wendy White was elected unopposed as Lt
Governor Education & Training District 70 South.
Bob Kirchner was elected unopposed as Lt
Governor Education & Training, District 70 North.
Rebecca Plush was elected unopposed as Lt
Governor Marketing, District 70 South.
And Michael Said was elected unopposed as Lt
Governor Marketing, District 70 North.
The 10 Division Governors elected were...
Central .............................................. Nick Rinaldi
Eastern ....................................... Tanya Wickham
Hawkesbury ................................... Daniel Tucker
Lachlan ................................... Sally Rippingdale
Monaro .......................................... Mike Phoenix
Northern ........................................... John Taylor
Oxley .......................................... Graham Barnes
Phillip ............................................. Peter Crosby
Southern ...................................... David Wassink
Western ........................................... Mark Walker
In addition, District Governor-elect David announced
that Allen Oliver had been appointed District Public
Relations Officer for the coming year, Linda Said as
District Secretary and Anna Perdriau would continue
as District Treasurer.
THE-2015 team – back row (from left): David Fisher (District Governor elect), Wendy White (LGET D70S Elect), Bob Kirchner (LGET D70N
elect), Rebecca Plush (LGM D70S elect), Michael Said (LGM D70N elect), Allen Oliver (PRO), Linda Said (Secretary), Anna Perdriau
(Treasurer), Joan Rinaldi (District Governor and Immediate Past DG in the-2015); front row: Nick Rinaldi (Central Division Governor elect),
Tanya Wickham (Eastern), Daniel Tucker (Hawkesbury), Sally Rippingdale (Lachlan), Mike Phoenix (Monaro), John Taylor (Northern),
Graham Barnes (Oxley), Peter Crosby (Phillip) and David Wassink (Southern). Absent, Mark Walker (Western). The new team comes into
office on Tuesday July 1.
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A selection of photos from the just concluded Annual Conference (clockwise from top): speakers in the Friday night Youth
Showcase with International President George Yen and District Governor Joan Rinaldi; President George and his wife
Jorie; winner of the Jazzer Smith Award Colin Levy with DG Joan and Northern Division Governor Bob Kirchner; Past DG
Ted Mackness receives his 40 Year Award from Lt Governor Marketing Wendy White and DG Joan; members of Canberra
Gourmet (Rebecca Plush, Leona Dwyer, Tim Reed, Tracy Thomas and John Dwyer accept the Travel Gavel); Anne Keeling,
Focus Advanced Toastmasters, with the Shield for Best PR Campaign (full winners list next newsletter); Stephen Needs. John
Drinkwater, Margrit Fisher, Diane Law, Mia Cong and Elaine McLoon with Peter Giessinger award leadership training ribbons,
DG Joan and International President George; and flag bearers John Burge (ACT), Udo Moerig (NSW) and Robyn Peck
(District 70 banner) sing the National Anthem with senior District officers before commencement of the business session.
All photos by District Photographer Zenita Acaba
Our International Speech Contestants on the night (from left): Matt Tonkiss (Lachlan Division), Michael Gallagher (Oxley), Sam Ades (Central), Tom Cummins
(Western), B Rewers (Southern), Dale Rees-Bevan (Hawkesbury), David Griffiths (Phillip), Ellen Webster (Northern), Peri Jackson (Eastern) and Audrey Dargan
(Monaro). Below – a small selection of photos of attendees at the Saturday night Gala Dinner; and, bottom right... District Governor Joan makes a special
presentation to the newly “Australianised” George & Jorie Yen!
These photos, and many more, can be viewed on the District 70 website
A word from your District Governor...
District 70 Members
Thank you for being part of the “Same, Same But Different” Conference.
I hope you had a great time.
I wish to thank Cheryl Keane and her Team for helping David Fisher, myself and
Wendy White put on a conference that we are so proud of, particularly as our
International President George Yen was attending. I believe both George and Jorie
enjoyed themselves and will have some wonderful memories of their visit to District
70.
The year is drawing to an end but even though the new Team is ready to take over, the 2013-2014 Team still
has some work to do to complete our year and do our best to achieve our goals. Continue to register new
members and educational awards – we need 19 more Distinguished Clubs to meet our Goal as well as an
additional 27 paid clubs. This is a big battle with only five weeks to go but let’s give it our best shot.
The next event on the District 70 Calendar is the Changeover Dinner to be held Saturday 28th June at
Bankstown Sports Club. This is a time to recognise our leaders and their achievements and a time for our
members to get together and celebrate.
I have had a wonderful year, in fact it has been awesome, there is so much to be gained by taking up the
leadership challenge.
As Zig Ziglar says... “You do not have to be great to start but you do have to start to be great.”
Joan
Club Leadership Training
The first sessions of Club Leadership Training
for the new year Executives commence
on Saturday, 14 June in Northern Division
(Inverell), followed by Saturday 21 June in
Oxley Division (Maclean) and Sunday 13 July at
Bankstown Sports Club (District).
Following is a listing of dates set so far with
some detail yet to be finalised. Check the
What’s On page of the District 70 website
www.d70toastmasters.org.au/club-leadershiptraining-sessions/ for details as they are
confirmed...
14 June – Sat
21 June – Sat
6 July – Sun
13 July – Sun
17 July – Thurs
19 July – Sat
20 July – Sun
24 July – Thurs
31 July – Thurs
2 August – Sat
9 August - Sat
13 August – Wed
Maclean
Oxley
Inverell
Northern
Tamworth
Northern
Bankstown
District
Locations TBACentral / Lachlan
Locations TBA Various
Locations TBAVarious
Locations TBAVarious
Locations TBACentral / Lachlan
Monaro Area 43 / Western Area 14
Location TBA Oxley
Location TBA Central
14 August – ThursLocations TBACentral / Lachlan
16 August – Sat Other sessions if needed
17 August – Sun Other sessions if needed
24 August – Sat Other sessions if needed
30 August – Sat Bankstown – final session
(details on District events and activities available on the What’s On
page at the D70 website www.d70toastmasters.org.au)
St Clair Toastmasters - 20th Aniversary Monday 09 June at
7:30 pm.
District Train The Trainer... 1pm to 5pm Saturday June 14 –
Bankstown Sports Club. If you are interested in being on the2015 training team, please attend!
20th Anniversary Celebration – Alpha Toastmasters –
Saturday June 21, 6pm. Contact Tom Wilde, tel 0477 668 807,
email [email protected]
Sunday Seminar & Speakers Forum – Sunday June 22 at
Bankstown Sports Club. See flyer with details this issue!
District 70 Area Governor Training – Saturday June 28 –
Bankstown Sports Club.
District 70 Changeover Dinner – Saturday June 28 –
Bankstown Sports Club.
The District 70 Newsletter is published by the District Governor Joan Rinaldi DTM
Contact: Newsletter Editor Bob Kirchner – [email protected]
From the Lt Governor Education & Training...
Be Do Have
Our District Governor Joan Rinaldi has done much
to encourage us all to step up to leadership positions
this year. She maintains that even if you think you
don’t have the ability to take on a leadership role or
you’re not ready, we don’t care! This is not meant to
be frivolous and is the absolute truth.
Most important is that you are ready and able to
listen and learn. In doing so, you can and are able
to make the step up. This may take one month or it
may take 10 months. Remember our tagline “Where
Leaders are made” and take the challenge.
We are rapidly approaching the end of another
Toastmasters year and the start of another. It is now
time for a whole new group of members to step up to
leadership roles. It is a very exciting period.
Often we feel the prerequisite for leadership is to
“have” something, a special
talent, intelligence or ability
to take on leadership roles.
The natural thought is that
we should “have” ability so
that we can “do” the role
and then “be” a leader. In
Toastmasters, our education
institution, nothing could
be further from the truth.
In fact, nothing could be
further from the truth in any
pursuit. I believe this is the
opposite to the way we should be thinking about
leadership in our organisation.
Our International President George Yen presented
an education session at our recent Annual
Conference on the subject “Be Do Have” and it was
wonderful to see such a leader expounding this
view.
Five years ago, when I was a very nervous Area
Governor, a Past District Governor gave me the
TRAIN THE TRAINER
For anyone interested in being part of
the District 70 training team for/2015
please consider attending the Train
the Trainer session being held on
Saturday, 14 June at Bankstown
Sports Club commencing at 1pm
advice to “hide behind the
badge”. When I think about
it, this fake-it-til-you-makeit advice is the best advice I
could have received. Actually
what she was saying was to
“be” a leader – Now! In so
doing, it is much easier to see
what we have to “do” to then “have” the skills and
ability to actually be that leader we need to be... And
so growth happens of itself and leadership qualities
are self-emanating.
How good is that!?
When you think about it, our safe, friendly,
supportive and positive learning environment will
allow us to take on leadership positions and learn
these on-the-job and actually encourages us to do
so. There are so many great
role models out there for us
to see and learn from, and
together with this, it is just
a small first step to be in
a leadership position. We
will then know what to do to
eventually have all we need.
I implore you to look into
leadership of your club, or
if you have been involved
in club leadership, to think
about leadership positions
such as Area Governor and beyond – there are still
some Areas looking for Area Governors for next
year. There are also many opportunities open in
taking on a Staff Officer Role and working with our
District Leaders in the running of our district.
I would love to hear from you, “Where Leaders are
made”. Do take that step to “Be Do Have”.
Regards,
David Fisher DTM
May 1 to
June 30
Clubs adding 5 new, dual
or reinstated members during May and June receive
a “Beat the Clock” ribbon for their club banner!
H a v e y o u t h o u g h t a b o u t t a k i n g a To a s t m a s t e r s l e a d e r s h i p r o l e ? I f n o t , d o i t s o o n !
Sheila’s brush with
aviation history!
Peter Edwards, 62, has worked for US-based company
Cirrus for two years and was understood to have been
taking two men, one from Sydney and the other the
Southern Highlands, on a sales flight recently when the
parachute-deploying four-seater plane got into trouble and
crash-landed, albeit softer than expected, into the front
yard of Sheila Riordan’s Lawson home.
Sheila is District 70’s current Area 14 Governor in
Western Division. The news report continues...
“The parachute system worked as it is supposed to,” Mr
Edwards told Nine News. “Cirrus is the only plane that’s got
it. It’s meant to save lives and it worked.”
Mr Edwards and his two 58-year-old male passengers
escaped uninjured. One of the passengers was taken to
hospital after complaining of neck and back pain.
Aviation analyst Grant McHerron said the aircraft was the
BMW of light planes and the parachute was standard in
Cirrus products. “The parachute is a major selling point for
Cirrus,” Mr McHerron said.
“One of the founding directors of Cirrus was involved in
a mid-air collision and the aircraft he was in managed
to land okay, the other didn’t. Since then every aircraft
they’ve produced has a form of ballistic recovery system
parachute.”
While a parachute on a plane could seem a logical safety
design, aviation expert Dick Smith yesterday hosed down
calls for them to be mandatory.
“Statistics show that planes with parachutes have the same
fatality rate as those that don’t,” he said. “Fatality rates
looked at over a 10-year period weren’t improved. It’s a
lot more money and if a pilot spends extra money on a
parachute, they might spend less money on training.”
Despite this, Ms Riordan is still amazed at how “neatly” the
plane crashed into her front yard just after 2pm.
It may have crushed her fence but Lawson residents
who saw the plane tail-spinning out of control before the
parachute deployed believed there could have been deaths
without the safety device.
There were two open house inspections in the street when the
plane crashed with nearly 20 people nervously watching the
plane descend.
“They were all running back and forth because they did not
know which way it was going to land,” Ms Riordan said.
“What gets me is it is parked so neatly. It was the perfect spot
for it to land. It could not have worked more beautifully if it had
been planned. No bits fell off and hit anybody. It missed the
power lines and that could have been dreadful. The passenger
was fairly cheerful but it could have just been relief.”
The crash site became a tourist attraction on Sunday with a
stream of motorists stopping to take photos.
Police and aviation authorities said an investigation into what
caused the crash could take months.
Is your club up to date with Toastmasters branding?
For all branding information, go to
www.toastmasters.org/Members/OfficerResources/VirtualBrandPortal.aspx
The new branding was launched in August 2011 and by now should have been
absorbed by all clubs.
All banners and materials used and distributed now should only carry the new
branding.
By utilising the correct Toastmasters branding, your club will be
helping to communicate a consistent look and message for our organisation,
•in turn
increasing understanding and global awareness of Toastmasters
International..
motivating prospective members to join, making district and club objectives
easier to achieve... and
increasing pride in being a member of Toastmasters
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Thales Rydalmere
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Craig Hadden
St. Kieran’s Manly Vale
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DISTINGUISHED TOASTMASTERS
Isis Hallett
Muswellbrook
A55
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Congratulations to the following District 70 Toastmasters who achieved our
highest award in April
Judith Harcourt
Charlestown
A15
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Christine Hayhoe
Ainslie Toastmasters Club
A51
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Belinda Faulkner
Trainers By Design
A50
P
Richard Heidlmair
Harbord Diggers Daytime
A22
H
Margaret Donaghy
Focus Advanced Toastmasters Club A34
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Michael Hines
Port Hacking
A2
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Margrit Fisher
Skyline Speakers
A11
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Jennifer Horn
Port Macquarie
A5
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Margaret Hawrylciw
Cronulla R S L Toastmasters Club
A2
S
Rene Hyun
Pyrmont
A33
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Scott Johnston
Brisbane Water Breakfast
A21
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Congratulations to those Toastmasters who have achieved three or more
educational awards in April...
Janene Kennedy
Balgowlah RSL
A22
H
Allan Lawson
Killara
A34
H
Philip Bendeich
4
ACB, CL, ACG, CC
Mark Lim
ACS Canberra
A51
M
Lindi Bowen Needs
3
CL, CC, ACS
Helen Motbey
Ginninderra
A17
M
Judy-Ann Cluff
3
ACS, CL, ALB
Hugh Mulgrew
Yes Toastmasters
A25
H
Margaret Donaghy
5
CL, CC, LDREXC, ALS, DTM
Stephen Needs
Hunter Gourmet
A23
E
Margaret Hawrylciw
4
CC, ALS, LDREXC, DTM
Quan Dinh Ngo
Mt Pritchard
A53
P
Narelle Kelvin
3
ACB, CL, ACS
Stephen Needs
3
ACG, ACS, CC
Wendy Nielsen
Western Gourmet
A13
W
Cassia Partane
3
CL, ALB, ACS
Josephine Plested
Ainslie
A51
M
Sally Rippingale
3
LDREXC, CL, CC
Timothy Reed
DHS
A26
M
Maggie Sydenham
3
CC, ACG, ALB
Timothy Reed
Tuggeranong
A26
M
Mark Walker
3
CC, CL, ACG
Joan Rinaldi
Fairfield
A53
P
Jane Wang
3
CC, ALB, CC
Nick Rinaldi
Fairfield
A53
P
Annie Ryan
Ginninderra
A17
M
Sebastian Sabater
Wattle Grove
A35
P
Frank Sacqualini
Winners Circle
A13
W
Michael Said
Travelling Gourmet
A40
P
Dianne Sammut
Parramatta Midday
A45
W
Helen Smith
New England
A56
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Phil Stockwell
Killara
A34
H
Maggie Sydenham
Dapto
A30
S
Sarah Taggart
Berowra
A16
H
Mark Taylor
Western Gourmet
A13
W
Antonio Telechea
Illawarra
A30
S
Tracy Thomas
Tuggeranong
A26
M
Fred Thomson
Forestville
A22
H
Donald Toope
Hurstville
A9
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TRIPLE CROWN
COMPETENT COMMUNICATORS
Congratulations to those Toastmasters who have completed the first level of
achievement... Competent Communicator... in April...
A = Area
Divisions • C = Central • E = Eastern • H = Hawkesbury • L = Lachlan • M = Monaro
N = Northern • O = Oxley • P = Phillip • S = Southern • W = Western
Paul Apthorpe
Manly Multilingual
A22
H
Jennifer Ashton
Taree
A5
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Clive Bailey
DEXUS Property Group
A1
C
Francesco Belli
AMP Toastmasters Club
A41
L
Carolyn Bethwaite
Cranbrook
A36
C
Lindi Bowen Needs
Hunter Gourmet
A23
E
Gordon Brown
The Hills District
A37
W
Shirley Childs
Bon Appetit
A16
H
Leah Choi
Bankstown Trotting Club
A20
P
Alicia Curtis
Travelling Gourmet
A40
P
Daniel Tucker
Concord West
A6
P
Giles Dickenson-Jones
Blue Tongue
A47
H
Mark Walker
Glenbrook
A38
W
Christina Dixon
UTS MBITM Community
A46
L
Jane Wang
Gourmet
A31
L
Dominic Dolan
Benjamin
A17
M
Gary Wilson
Western Gourmet
A13
W
Dorelle Ettingshausen
Springwood
A38
W
Alexander Wood
HSBC Sydney
A54
C
Mark Fowler
Namadgi
A26
M
Maher Younes
Bankstown Sports Club
A20
P
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