Media Release

Mangalore, May 1: The annual Gavel Club meet 2012 was held in the amphitheatre in St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), here recently.

The session started at 6 pm in the evening. The theme chosen was IPL. Two eminent judges from the Toast Masters Club, Prabhavati and Shashikant were present to judge the session. The toastmaster was Ashish S A and the table topic master for the session was Sidharth Umesh. The time keeper was Shubha Bhandari, grammarian- Pelvino D’Costa, aa- counter- Emmanuel D’Souza and word for the day was given by Diyana Kasim.

The session had eight prepared speakers and eight table topic speakers. The first four prepared speeches were conducted in a row which left the audience spellbound, followed by eight table topics which were facilitated by Sidharth, the table topic master. The table topics were challenging and equally thought provoking. The table topic speakers were randomly chosen from the audience which added a sense of surprise element to the session. The prepared speeches were resumed by the toastmaster, Ashish and the crowd were testimony to the grueling speeches thereafter.

Towards the end and after the completion of last four speeches, the last year’s meritorious gavelians and coordinators were rewarded with certificates of appreciation. The much awaited moment came in when the toastmaster announced the results which the judges themselves exclaimed as a challenging task.

The winner of table topic speech was Neeraj Nayak and runners-up were Nidhin Raj and Dionne Almeida.

The winner of prepared speech was Jaswin Joseph and runners-up were George Thomas and Akhil T P.

The annual gavel meet 2012 turned out to be a great experience for all participants as well as the audience.