The Smedley Award

The Smedley Award is the first award that my club, Riverside Toastmasters Club, received in my term as the President . The award is given for having added five new members in the club.

Top 10 clubs with highest education awards per 7/1 base membership

Club Name Educ awards July 1 base Ratio
1)1194 Riverside Toastmasters Club 6 9 0.667
2)767889 Kalantiao Club 5 8 0.625
3)1346670 Premiere Business & Professional Toastmasters Club 4 8 0.500
4)6717 First Farmers Toastmasters Club 4 10 0.400
5)3434 Bacolod Square and Compass 4 10 0.400
6)1088 Manila Bay Club 6 20 0.300
7)828778 IAME and Associates Toastmasters Club 7 26 0.269
8)1010 Philamlife Club 5 20 0.250
9)3377 Wingfoot Club 2 8 0.250
10)1205413 i-Connect Toastmasters Club 6 27 0.222

4 out of 5 Innovation Awards Finalists from SU.

An Old Clipping from:
The SU NetNEWS Volume 11 Number 7
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

For out of five finalists that qualified for the Oriental Negros Innovation Awards are from Silliman University, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced last February 15.

This year’s finalists from Silliman are Engr. Bonifacio F. Commandante, Jr. (Ph.D. in Marine Biology student at SU) and Prof. Wilma Tejero (SU Economics Professor) with their business proposal named Oriental Negros Coconut Milk Processing Plant, Jay Cris Famoso (BS Chem IV), The use of crude flower extract in the Spectrophotometric Determination of Sulfite in White Wines; Klint Austero (BS Computer Engineering III), Oscar Opsima (BS Computer Engineering V), and Anthony Logronio (BS Mechanical Engineering V), E-ad board; and Aldin Lapinig (BS Computer Engineering V), Ian John Caluscusan (BS Computer Engineering V) and Dwight Sabio (BS Computer Engineering V), Intelligent and Multifunctional Personal Identification System. Commandante was last year’s champion, with his entry on a technology that makes possible waterless transport of live fish.

The final competition is set on February 25 at Bethel Guest House. It will start with the finalists’ project presentations. Awarding will follow in the afternoon. The grand prize winner will receive P50,000, while the second and third placers will receive P25,000 and P10,000, respectively. The rest will each receive P5,000 as consolation prize.

Judging this year’s competition will be Prof. Jay Bernardo and Prof. Richard Cruz of the Asian Institute of Management, and DTI Assistant Secretary Carissa Cruz. (Florita Belle O. Ipong)

JAY CRIS FAMOSO, CC, ALB

Speech Number	Speech Title	Date Delivered	Evaluator
1	Leaps and Bounds	June 23, 2007	DTM Greg Vallejera
2	Brain Drain:An Inconvenient Truth	July 09, 2007	ATM – S Juliana Tan
3	Life’s Instructions From a Marathon Race	Sept 01, 2007	DTM Greg Vallejera
4	Outside the Portals of College	Nov 27, 2007	TM Mhelliton Sillador
5	Frustrations	March 01, 2008	ATM Maricel Locsin
6	Coffee Break	March 08, 2008	DTM Ro Leonora
7	Melamine in Focus	Oct 04, 2008	ATM – S Juliana Tan
8	Ascending to Greatness	Nov 29, 2008	CTM Ester Solidad
9	A Toast and A Smile	Dec 05, 2008	DTM Greg Vallejera
10	Dare to Fail	Feb 27, 2009	DTM Ro Leonora

Highlights:

1. It took me 1 year and 8 months to finish the Competent Communicator Norm.
2. My longest hiatus in delivering a speech is 7 months, that is from speech number 6 to 7.
3. The shortest is one week, Speech number 5 to 6. The reason to hurry is that I wanted to qualify in my first contest in toastmasters. It indeed bore fruit. I was Area 33 Champion in the Speech to Evaluate contest among 8 toastmasters.
4. Among my 10 Evaluators, only one came from my club. One was from First Farmers. Eight were from Barangay TMC. That says a lot. Hehehe.



5. DTM Greg Vallejera held the highest number of evaluations. Three times and that says a lot too.

Confessions of a Toastmasters Addict

I didn't know what toastmasters is until a good friend, Malou Joy told me what it is. The irony though is that she is still a guest in toastmasters meeting while i am working already on my 8th basic speech project. (This is a challenge to her! hahaha. After all she loves the feeling of being challenged)

We were exchanging correspondence about toastmasters since i am working now in Bacolod while she is in Cebu, when my wanting to refine my public speaking skills fired up. I then searched for toastmasters in Bacolod and voila i found myself now a member of the Riverside Toastmasters Club. We hold our meeting every Saturday at 7 in the evening at Sugarland hotel.

Some toastmasters would ask me who brought me to toastmasters. With a grin on my face i would say. None. I brought myself to toastmasters.

Then that marked the start of my stalwart love for toastmasters. At first i was jittery thinking on my feet when i answered my first table topics, but now i have toastmasters for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

My addiction to toastmasters give me these trophies to reckon!