Evaluation Winners
Tim Evans – 1st Place
Jonathan Gardner – 2nd Place
Clarissa Eastham – 3rd Place
If you missed District 23’s Fall Conference in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on October 9 – 11, 2015, you missed laughs, inspiration, food, and fun!
The fall conference included the Evaluation and Humorous Speech contests.
Friday kicked off with a keynote address, “Lead Anyway,” by Rich Hopkins. Shortly after, Tim Evans of Lubbock won the Evaluation contest with Jonathan Gardner of Los Lunas and Clarissa Eastham of Albuquerque finishing second and third, respectively.
Saturday included numerous educational sessions as well as our District Council meeting (minutes will be posted here as soon as they are available) where we passed resolutions for the Fall 2016 conference, the conference rotation, and the contest rotation. During the Hall of Fame luncheon, several prestigious awards were presented:
- Area Governor of the Year: Lynn Fugelso (photo on Facebook)
- Division Governor of the Year: Bonnie Smith (photo on Facebook)
- Toastmasters of the Year: Charles Beasley (unable to attend)
- Compañero – Donna Labatt (photo on Facebook)
That evening our Humorous contest took place with Kenny Granville of El Paso taking home the first place trophy and Jasmine Scott and Benjamin Shaw, both of Albuquerque, taking home the prizes for second and third, respectively.
Humorous Winners
Benjamin Shaw – 3rd Place
Kenny Granville – 1st Place
Jasmine Scott – 2nd Place
Saturday evening culminated with the presentation of nine Distinguished Toastmaster awards. Congratulations to:
- Suzanne McConaghy
- Bobby Kimbro
- Jason Davis
- Cecilia R. Garcia
- Stephanie L. Steelman
- Pamela Emmons-Beasley
- Charles D. Beasley
- Amber M. Marsh
- Bonnie Lynn Smith
Our Spring 2016 Conference will take place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 13th through 15th. Register using the link above and to the left and join us there!
