Photos: Domingo P. Herras

“RIYADH DIVISIONS: TOGETHER AS ONE”

 
RIYADH – A conglomeration of some 28-31 Toastmasters International individual clubs in the Central Region (Riyadh) had successfully converged  and join  its ranks together  in one of the biggest  ever  ceremonial gatherings of toastmasters in Saudi Arabia,  dubbed as “Riyadh Divisions Joint Conference 2012” held  Friday, 4^th of May at the Main Diriyah Hall at the Riyadh Palace Hotel here.

Philippine Ambassador Ezzedin H. Tago was the Chief Guest of Honor and Speaker during the ceremonies. Tago praised the Toastmasters International organizations in Riyadh for initiating  laudable projects,  such as speech contests and educational workshops that help enhance the public speaking abilities and leadership of its members and their families, but also the community which includes Filipino expatriates in the Kingdom.   He also expressed his unwavering support to the organizations, “I encourage your organization to continue with its mission and I hope that Toasmasters International will continually adhere to its commitment of empowering its members through their pursuit of excellence in leadership and  public speaking for the benefit of the community,”Tago in his  inspirational message.


 


 
“Riyadh Divisions: Together As One” is the overall theme of the joint annual division conference this year.
 
Some 200-300 participating club members and council officers attended the one-day  joint annual celebration.  The simple ceremonies  opened with the parade of bannners lead by Division A followed by Division B. The Welcome remarks was delivered by Aamir Shamim Choudry, Chairman -Riyadh Division Joint Conference 2012. Delivering of the respective messages  was done by Div. A Governor -  James Edward Taruc, Div. B Governor - Dr. Delfin Federico, Jr.,  Hassan Maghazel- Lt. Governor for Marketing and Abraham Daniel-Lt. Governor for Education and Training.


 
The overwhelming successes and  splendor and the buzz of the annual Division conference  was exclusively sponsored and supported by Mabuhay Mobily  Telecommunications and SABIC Industries –a culture of innovations as this year’s major sponsors. Shutters Guild provided photo coverages of the entire event.
 


 
Highlights of the joint conference was the showdown of skills, techniques, contents and voice quality and delivery of its respective pieces in the table topics, humorous, evaluation and International Speech competitions.  After a very tough and  challenging competitions, the “best among the best” speakers  emerged under the Division A  with TM Shaun Louie Sabico of the Mabuhay  and  PICPA Riyadh Toastmasters Club, winning the International Speech Contest category with his winning piece ”Trigger” , while TM Donnie Ray Aquino  won  the  humurous  and the evaluation speech was bagged by TM Reina Tejano with the table topics was carted-away by TM Sankaran Iyer.
 

 

 

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