Tatts News
Club Tall Tales Contest
Congratulations to our Tall Tales Contest winners:
First place – Monica Flynn
Second place – Pere Fandos
Third place – Srimanta Rath
Wonderfully entertaining ‘tall tales’ from all our competitors!
Club Christmas Celebration
What a great night at our Festive Club meeting which was followed by drinks at Bar Hombre. Happy Holidays everyone!
Area 12 Humorous Speech Contest
Congratulations to Romana Bizjak for placing second at the Area 12 2024-2025 Humorous Speech Contest. A fantastic achievement for our Club President in only her second year at Toastmasters!
Toastmaster Membership Milestones
Huge congratulations to our long standing members – Peter Anderson, Paul Immelman and Helen Hu who have reached significant Toastmaster membership milestones. Peter celebrates 20 years with Toastmasters and Paul and Helen celebrate 10 years.
They will be presented with trophies at the District Awards Ceremony on Sunday 27 October 2024.
Club Humorous Speech Contest
Well done to all contestants who participated in the Humorous Speech Contest last night. Special congratulations to:
First place – Romana Bizjak
Second place – Jenny Mok
Third place – Helen Hu
Thanks again to our judges and volunteers for running the evening!
Club Table Topics Contest
Well done to everyone who participated in our Table Topics Contest last night, especially our first timers! Our table topic question this was “What’s your recent adventure that went wrong?”
Congratulations to our Contest Winners:
First place – Peter Anderson
Second place – Lachlan Scott
Third place – Helen Hu
Good luck to Lachlan Scott who will represent us at the Area Contest (Peter will be travelling, so will be unable to compete).
New Executive Committee for 2024-2025
A new Executive Committee has been elected for the 2024 – 2025 Toastmaster year. Our new Club Officers are:
President – Romana Bizjak
VP Education – Ben Russell
VP Membership – Lachlan Scott
VP Public Relations – Dianne Gall
Treasurer – Helen Hu
Secretary – Mike Kano-McCallum DTM
Sergeant at Arms – Ivy Tong
Immediate Past President – Ben Russell
Christmas Dinner
Club Executive Handover Dinner
Last night we celebrated our last Executive Committee meeting for 2022/23 with dinner and drinks at The Castlereagh. Looking forward to a great year in the incredibly capable hands of our new leadership team!
New Executive Committee for 2023-2024
A new Executive Committee has been elected for the 2023 – 2024 Toastmaster year. Our new Club Officers are:
President – Ben Russell
VP Education – Tibor Corbett, Angel Heng
VP Membership – Lachlan Scott
VP Public Relations – Dianne Gall
Treasurer – Rachel Beaney
Secretary – Mike Kano-McCallum DTM
Sergeant at Arms – To be appointed
Immediate Past President – Dianne Gall
Area 12 – Humorous and Table Topics Contest
On Monday night, City Tatts hosted the Area 12 Humorous and Table Topics Contests at Castlereagh Boutique Hotel.
Special congrats to our club member Rachel Beaney for winning the Humorous Contest, with her hilarious speech ‘Frozen’.
Congratulations to Rachel for also placing second in Table Topics and to one of our newest members Lachlan Scott, who placed third. Both did very well talking to the trick topic “What I love most about me”!
Thanks to our amazing members who helped to organise and run the contest, it was a great night!
Club Humorous and Table Topics Contests 2022
What a great night at our Club Humours and Table Topics Contests!
Congrats to all our participants and contest winners.
Humorous:
1st – Rachel Beaney
Table Topics Winners:
1st – Richard Tainsh
2nd – Stephanie Giannis
3rd – Lachlan Scott
Thanks to all our club members who helped host the evening, it was a great success!
District 70 – PR Award 2021-22
We won the District 70 PR Award for our website! Well done to all our club members who helped to build and maintain it!
New Executive Committee 2022-23
A new Executive Committee has been elected for 2022/23. New Club Officers are:
President – Dianne Gall
VP Education – Harendra Samarabandu
VP Membership – Joe Ruggero
VP Public Relations – Anna Gudkov
Treasurer – Rachel Beaney
Secretary – Mike Kano-McCallum DTM
Sergeant at Arms – Ben Russell
Social drinks
Following the first meeting of each month, our club has informal social drinks, a great way to catch-up and connect with other members.
Tall Tales Contest 2022
Last night we heard some incredible and entertaining speeches from our Tall Tales contest participants. Congratulations to the winners:
1st place – Mike Kano-McCallum
2nd place – Richard Tainsh
3rd place – Paul Immelman
Back to face to face meetings!
We are excited to be back to face to face meetings to kick off 2022!
Superhero themed zoom meeting!
Fun all round at our superhero themed meeting last night. Was great to stay connected while we can’t meet face to face.
Congratulations Nitay-Yair!
A huge congratulations to our extremely talented member Nitay-Yair Levi who placed second in the World Championship of Public Speaking this year. Click here to read all about his amazing success and to watch his speech “Advice for Life“. Nitay-Yair has been a member of City Tattersalls Toastmasters Club since 2019 and we are so incredibly proud and inspired by this accomplishment. Well done Nitay-Yair!
Appointment of Club Officers
Meet our Club Officers for the 2021 – 2022 Toastmaster year!
Our club officers work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure the club is the best that it can be. Club Officers are responsible for providing leadership and support to members, fostering a positive environment that’s conducive to members’ personal and professional growth, allowing them to achieve their Toastmasters education program goals.
President – Binh Doan
Immediate Past President – Victor David
VP Education – Joe Ruggero
VP Education (alternate) – Harendra Samarabandu
VP Membership – Anna Gudkov
VP Public Relations – Dianne Gall
Treasurer – Peter Anderson
Secretary – Mike Kano-McCallum DTM
Sergeant at Arms – Ben Russell
