Club History...
A brief chronological history of Two Oceans Toastmasters club is presented below.


12 November 1990
The very first meeting, organised by Denis Jennings and Isobel Berry ; both were members of Good Hope Toastmasters (club 4374).

28 November 1990
The second meeting ; several guests joined the organisation.

18 February 1991   
Formal permission was granted by Toastmasters International to Isobel Berry to organise a new Toastmasters club in Fish Hoek.

21 May 1991     
Two Oceans Toastmasters was officially chartered by Toastmasters International, and assigned club number 8185.

17 August 1991     
Charter Presentation dinner, held at the Avenue Hotel in Fish Hoek.

6 September 2000 
The 150'th meeting.

8 November 2000  
10'th anniversary meeting, attended by many of the original charter members.

18 December 2000 
The club web site was established by Paul Kilfoil

30 June 2003     
President's Distinguished Club status was achieved for the first time in the club's history - 9 of the 10 Distinguished Club Program goals were met, and membership had risen to 24.

2 June 2004    
The 200'th meeting, held at The Red Tomato restaurant in Fish Hoek.

21 May 2005   
The club's web site was named the "Best Toastmasters Club Web Site in Southern Africa" for 2004/2005.

12 May 2007   
The club's web site was named the "Best Toastmasters Club Web Site in Southern Africa" (again) for 2006/2007.

19 April 2008  
Two Oceans Toastmasters supplied all 3 contestants for Area 1 at the Toastmasters Southern Africa, Division D speech contests - the best performance ever by the club in the annual speech contests.

2 July 2008     
The 250'th meeting.

20 February 2010   
A group for Two Oceans Toastmasters was created on the popular internet social networking site FaceBook

30 June 2010     
President's Distinguished Club status was achieved for the second time in the club's history - 9 of the 10 Distinguished Club Program goals were met, and membership had risen to 24.

4 May 2011     
20'th anniversary meeting, attended by many special guests.

10 November 2011 
Two Oceans Toastmasters was set up on the Easy-Speak web site.

29 March 2012        
Two Oceans Toastmasters hosted the Division D "International" Speech Contest for the first time at The Alphen Hall in Constantia.

A member of Two Oceans Toastmasters (Kay Price-Lindsay) won the Division D "International" speech contest for the first time ever.

16 April 2012     
A second monthly club meeting was introduced, in the morning on the second Monday after the main meeting.

2 May 2012     
The 300'th meeting.

5 May 2012     
A member of Two Oceans Toastmasters (Kay Price-Lindsay) won the District 74 "International" speech contest for the first time ever.

11 July 2012

Marion Thomas was named Toastmaster of the Year for Division D

23rd April 2013

Lorne Sulcas (evaluation) and Francois Roux (prepared speech) are crowned Area Winners for the International Speech and Evaluation contest

15th May 2013

Lorne Sulcas (evaluation) is crowned Division Winnter for the International Evaluation contest and Francois Roux (prepared speech) is placed 3rd


25th May 2013     
Lorne Sulcas is placed 3rd in the District at the International Evaluations Contest

March 2014

Reto Carmichel is placed 1st in Division for International Speaking and Lorne Sulcas is placed first for Evaluations

May 2014

Reto Carmichel is placed 2nd in the District for International Prepared Speaking and Lorne Sulcas is place 3rd for International Evaluations

Aug 2014

Chris Smyly is placed first in Division for Humourous Speaking

April 2015

Francois Roux is placed 1st in Division for International Prepared Speaking and Verity Price is place 1st for Evaluations

15 May 2015

Verity Price is crowned the District 74 Evaluations Champion

Devi Paulsen is crowned the District 74 Best PR for 2015






Hall Of Fame

This is where we celebrate all recent & past milestones achieved by members of Two Oceans Toastmasters.

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Annual Awards

See which members of our club have been recipients of our Annual Two Oceans Toastmasters Awards since 2001.

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Speech Contests

See which members of Two Oceans Toastmasters have won club, area, division & district Speech Contests since 2001

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Club Presidents

Two Oceans Toastmasters club was founded in 1990 and officially chartered in 1991. We have had outstanding club presidents since our start.

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Club News

Two Oceans Toastmasters club  is a very active club and as a result often have exciting  news to share with our members & visitors.

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