Tag: 2015
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Letter from the President 2014-2015
Dear Mercury Members, Our club is like a drug. It’s so good, it’s addictive. The atmosphere at our meetings is uplifting and the number of members and guests that continue to come to us shows this. But THIS wouldn’t be possible without the BOARD. Mariana, Robert, Matthias, Jeremy, Lena, Wendy and Dyane did a tremendous…
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O Yeah! Stellar Meeting!
This Wednesday, our well-prepared Toastmaster of the Evening Marina introduced the theme of the evening “O Yeah!”. Afterwards, she wonderfully set the scene for every speaker. Petronela delivered CC manual Project #3 entitled “Sharing is Caring”. In her speech, she told us about her project: sharing a garden in the heart of Berlin and using…
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Newly Elected Board 2015-2016
At the last meeting, a new board was elected: President– Renko Pauwels VP Education– Sunder Annamraju VP Membership – Prateek Bhurkay VP Finance – Lukacs Dorfner VP PR – Magdalena Rother Sergeant at Arms– Friederike Galland Secretary – Eva Goellner Immediate Past President – Diana Cerbu Congratulations to all our officers for this new role…
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Speech-A-Thon@Mercury
We Toastmasters love speaking and crave stage time. Our lovely VP Education Wendy knows it and organized for us a wonderful a Speech-A-Thon, i.e. a speech marathon (the running shoes were not required!), i.e. an evening only with speeches and their evaluations. Matthias MK and Lukacs hold their Icebreaker speeches. Matthias MK told us about…
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Become a Leader
The meeting on the 6th of May was scintillating. We started the meeting with an award ceremony. Dyane officially handed over the Revitalized Education Program Learning Masters Certificate to Khushi who, along with Anna, is a Learning Master. Khushi has worked on the REP for more than one year, where she invested her time, talent, ideas and wisdom.…
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Mercury Takes Home the Gold! Again!
The winners of Division C1 Contest on the 25th of April in Berlin are: English Speech Contest: 1. Violetta Pleshakova, Mercury Toastmasters Berlin 2. Dirk Brückner, Leipzig Toastmasters Club 3. Friederike Galland, Mercury Toastmasters Berlin English Evaluation Contest: 1. Dirk Brückner, Leipzig Toastmasters Club 2. Friederike Galland, Mercury Toastmasters Berlin 3. Julian Pottier, Leipzig Toastmasters…
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Area C1 Spring Contest
Our Area C1 Division 95 Spring Contest was held on Saturday, the 18th of April in Rostock. The winners are: English Speech Contest: Friederike Galland Violetta Pleshakova Henk De Bruyn English Evaluation Contest: Friederike Galland Khushi Pasquale German Speeches: Martin Bering Andrej Laue Friederike Galland German Evaluation: Andrej Laue Steffen Pic Congratulations to all the participants!…
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Great Beginnings
Last week we had another wonderful meeting. Our lovely, well-prepared Toastmaster of the Evening Friederike presented the meeting theme: Great Beginnings. She recited verses from the poem, Steps, written by the German poet, Hermann Hesse: “Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne, Der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben. ” “For each beginning bears a…
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And the Winners Are …
Mercury had another great competition on March 25th, 2015! We held the International Speech Contest and the Evaluation Contest. Johanna hosted the evaluation part, and guess who was the target speaker?! None other than Sari Saleh, our past member with tons of public speaking talent. Nevertheless, the evaluators were not discouraged. Each person (Sunder, Dyane,…
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Brent’s Article in Toastmaster Magazine
I am proud and happy to announce that Brent’s article on How to Become a Speechwriter was published in Toastmasters Magazine March 2015 edition (see page 28-29). Check it out!