Triple Crown Award to George Marshall

I had the pleasure of presenting Triple Crown Award to George Marshall. Here is the outline of the speech

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The Triple Crown Award is awarded to any Toastmaster who completes a combination
of three educational and/or leadership awards between 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2009.

 

The Triple Crown Winners will be recognized at the Awards Ceremony at the Spring Conference.

 

This year District has 6 winners so far. One of them is among us.

He completed DTM, ALS and CL awards to qualify for this award. That's it? End of the store? No, like we say, journey is more important than the destination. Here is the journey he went through...

  
1) Member for five years, 
2) DTM, 
3) past A2 Area Governor 
4) club sponsor, club mentor, 
5) Past club President, VPE and VPPR in Star Search 
6) Served at the district level, competed twice at district-level contests
7) Co-Producer & Technical Director for Toastmaster Time TV.
8) AC-Bronze (working towards DTM #2)
9) serving on the Region 1 2009 Conference committee.

In addition to all this, he is a mentor to many members and club Webmaster, active participant in officer meetings, takes many initiatives himself one such was first ever speech-a-thon we had last week at his residence.

He is a true inspiration to all. He is really Giant among Giants (he really is tall!)...

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my honour and great pleasure to present the Triple Crown Award on behalf of the club to one and only George Marshall.

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Dr. Margaret Chan evaluated my speech. Three suggestions I received were:

1) I should avoid speaking myself (I alluded how I took 4 years to complete two awards) and just focus on the awardee

2) When quoting number of awardees in the district, may be I should give an idea of how many members are in the district

Thanks to Margaret and others who gave written evaluation...

Shashi.