Muscat: Installation Ceremony of DSTM Club Officers Held
Report by Dilip Correa
Pics by Arun Lobo
Daijiworld Media Network—Muscat (CN)
Muscat, Oct 17: The Distinguished Speakers Toastmaster Club (DSTM), Oman, held its officers’ installation ceremony on Thursday October 14 at Booth Hall of Al-Ghubra Power & Desalination Co. SAOC.
Alexander Sequeira called the meeting to order at 7.15 pm and a welcome address by the president Clita Crasta followed. Toast Master of the Day Cyprian Misquith took over the proceedings and explained the colour theme of the day which comprised of yellow, orange, red, purple, and indigo.
He introduced the days role players - time-keeper Elias Abraham, word master/grammarian/Ah counter Naseema Saifudeen, and general evaluator Thomas George.
Alex Crasta gave the evaluation criteria for the speech from advance manual ‘Public Relations Project 1’ which was later delivered by Dr Rajan Philips. He spoke on the topic ‘The Art of Public Speaking’ and said , “Every failure is a stepping stone to success”.
Dr Binu Mathew, professor, Oman University, was the day’s keynote speaker. He spoke on planning a speech, preparations, postures, eye contact, smile, humour, verbal and non verbal communication and tips on public speaking.
Ninan Mathew was the table topic master. He explained the origin of table topics and importance of table topics in a Toast Masters meeting. The day’s table topics were
Colour Pink (Happiness) by Nantha Kumar, Colour Blue (Sadness) by Sreekumar Pai ,
Colour Orange (Anger) by Alexander Sequiera, and Colour Green (Jealousy) by Gurbinder Singh Punn.
George Thomas, divisional governor district 74, in his address said, “We have a lot of opportunities to develop our leadership skills with the toastmaster’s movement”. He also remembered the founder of Toast Master’s Club Dr Ralph Smedley and his vision.
The second part of the session called ‘reports session’ was headed by general evaluator Thomas George. Alex Crasta gave a thorough evaluation of the project speech by Dr Rajan Philips.
Installation of new office-bearers of DSTM Club was done by divisional governor Gubinder Punn. Clita Crasta honoured chief guest Allen Conroy, CEO, Al-Ghubra Power & Desalination Co. SAOC.
Awards and certificates were presented by Clita Crasta. The area governors and divisional governor of District 79 were honored by the chief guest and president.
The entertainment programme was ably conducted by Trevor Fernandes and there was a magic show by Ashokan. There was a hip hop dance by Caroline D’Souza, Jyothsna Tharakan, Jayal Tharakan, Melanie Crasta, Saurav Rebello, Mark Redhood, and Brian Monis.
The foot tapping music was by Melanie Crasta, Mark Redhood, Denzil Saldhana, as well as musicians Denzil Saldhana, Jason Rodricks, and Edward George. Games were held for families and Nanda Kumar proposed the vote of thanks.
The programme concluded at 10.30 pm with a delicious dinner served by Indian House Restaurant. The main sponsors of this event were Al-Ghubra Power & Desalination Co. SAOC. Co-sponsors were – Gulf Services and Industrial Supplies LLC, Global Financial Investments Holding, Sweets Of Oman, and TVI Express.
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