Tag Archive for 'Delphy Chow'

Having fun editing my contest speech – flexibility

Published
by
officer
on 23 September, 2008
in Speech
. 2 Comments

Let’s keep exploring how flexible the Chinese are…

  1. We can even change our age on our passport for winning the Olympics.
  2. Our use of melamine is flexible,too. We sell different kinds of milk to different people – safe milk to the Olympics athletes and staff; milk with melamine to our fellow Chinese.
  3. Flexibility in pricing… for laowai it is a lot, for Chinese OK, and for friends very cheap! – by Emily Minor
  4. Our taxies are flexible, too. How long does it take to take the taxi from People’s Square to ZhongShanpark? For local people, 20 minutes. For people from other province, a little bit longer. 30 minutes. That’s to help them get familiar with this city. For foreigners, 1 hour. Cause we think foreigners would love to do more sightseeing.
  5. ……………..to be continued

Congratulations to our successful contestants!

Published
by
Dan Smith, DTM
on 14 September, 2008
in events
. 0 Comments

This afternoon, CAT did great!!!

Between Delphy Chow winning Humorous (with her fabulous speech on Flexibility),

Bill Wang taking out Runner Up with his Black Swan speech, and

Dan Smith (yeah, me!) being awarded Second Place for Table Topics,

so three of the four place-getters were CAT members.

Congratulations one and all – we are all very proud of you!

Also congratulations to our Area Governor and member, Andrew Shih, for conducting such a successful and well-attended event.

C Division Contest: 26 October at MSD

… and our next meeting: 25 September

Congratulations: Delphy, Chris and Dan

Published
by
Dan Smith, DTM
on 2 September, 2008
in past meetings
. 0 Comments

Our Contest night provided great entertainment for all.

Delphy Chow was a standout with some dynamic kicks and dancing to take the Humorous Contest championship, followed by a great performance from Chris Haynes.

Dan Smith took out Table Topics, with Chris Haynes again in second place.

All three are now eligible for the Area Contest to be held later this month – good luck to them all!

Message from CAT President

Published
by
Emily Minor, CAT VPE
on 4 June, 2008
in past meetings
. 0 Comments

Dear CAT Members,

Last night we had a dynamic meeting including our club officer elections.  Let me highlight a few parts of the meetings.

Delphy gave an excellent training on how to take the terror out of speaking.  It was good to be reminded of the simple, but profound techniques for controlling anxiety.  She started with a focus on the body–posture, breathing and stretching.  Then she guided us to focus our minds on the objectives of the speech and away from “what will people think of me?”  If you are a dual member and need a trainer for your other club, I highly recommend scheduling Delphy!

Emily gave her HPLP final presentation.  If you do not know, she created a “Pawbook”for the CAT.  In essence, she has captured all of our processes and procedures into a handbook for the purpose of bringing clarity to our practices and as a means to orient and train members.  The HPLP is a milestone in the TM journey and it was exciting to be there and see Emily cross this line.  Please congratulate her.

All of the other speakers and evaluators did an excellent job.  Syna gave a humorous speech about what it means to be a woman, Joyce is mastering the Right Brain Evaluation, Mark Shaw lead a dynamic Table Topics session, and thanks to Jenny Ni we kept an on-time meeting.  Finally, we had two guests who where both very capable speakers, even though they are not TM members.  I suspect they will be soon.

One of the most important ceremonies we have each year is the election.  The election is when the club speaks and chooses its leaders.  It is my honor to introduce the CAT Exco 2008-2009.  We will have an induction ceremony for them in an up coming meeting.  I have full confidence in the continued development of the CAT under the capable leadership of the new CAT Exco!  I want to especially welcome Spike and Marco to the team, and thank Bill Wang for his year of service as the SAA, he will be serving as the President of the MSD club, congratulations.   Lastly, allow me to communicate my confidence in Emily as the new President!

President: Emily Minor, CC & CL
VP Education: Daniel Smith, DTM
VP Membership: Joyce Hu, CC
VP Public Relations: Spike Gu, CC
Secretary: TBA
Treasurer: Marco Meng, CC
Sergeant  at Arms:  Delphy Chow, ATMB & CL
Immediate Past President: Samuel Jones, DTM

Cheers,

Sam Jones, DTM

CAT President