First joint conference of TM held in Al-Jubail

Jubail, Mar 22: The first ever joint division ‘E’ and ‘L’ annual conference of Toastmasters (TM) was held recently at Royal Commission Fanateer Conference Hall, Al Jubail, KSA. Organised on the theme ‘exceeding excellence’ the conference was chaired by Toastmasters leader Shameer Ahmed Kudroli.

The special attraction of the event was key note address and workshop by USA based TM Lancer Millar, 2005 World Champion of Public Speaking based on communication track and Irish DTM Ted Corcoran, International President 2003-2004 related on Leadership path.

During the event news magazine was released by District Governor DTM Nazeer Al Qasem and immediate past district- 79 Governor DTM Khaled Matlagaitu. Stalwart toastmasters like DTM Ben Guerra, Mrs. Nori Guerra (area 11 Governor) DTM Joey among others were present from District 79 to witness the grand event. Eight area governors and district officers from division E & L were honored.

Various events like Evaluation Speech, Table Topics, Humourous speech and international speech were held for both the division.

In competitions for E Division, Safare Mohommad bagged first place in Evaluation speech and humourous speech, Manivannan bagged first place in table topic. Periyanayaham stood first in international speech.

In division L, Juan Roy stood first in evaluation speech while Parvathi Narayanan stood first in table topic. Sulthan Al-Meshabbi stood first in humourous speech while international speech first place was snatched away by Suresh Kumar.