Club Info

The Foster City Toastmasters club (No. 4014 of District 4) was chartered in June 1979.

As of Winter 2007, we have 25 members. We're a fun, warm and diverse group from different industries including healthcare, bio-tech, software, finance, education, chiropractic and more!

Some of our members have been involved in Toastmasters for 5 or more years but many of us are very new to the organization. We are a very beginner friendly club!

Foster City Toastmasters received the distinguished club award in 2001/2002 and 2005/2006.

Several of our members have also won individual speaking awards:

In March 2007 Pat Obuchowski won 1st place in the Area H5 Table Topics contest and Robert Tang won 2nd place in the International Speech Contest.

In September 2006 Sheldon Gordon won 2nd place in the Area H5 humorous speech contest.

In September 2005, Maria Notohusodo won 1st place in the Area H4/H5 Evaluation contest and Vanessa Au won 1st place in the Area H4/H5 Humorous Speech contest. Vanessa advanced to the Division level where she also won 1st place and advanced to the final round of competition, the District 4 contest in Monterey November 19, 2005.

In March 2005 Mike Kinney won 1st place in the Area H5 Table Topics contest.

In September 2004, Mike Kinney won 2nd place in the Area Humorous Speech Contest.

In March 2004, Nitin Barve and Godvin Vaz won 2nd place in the area Tall Tales and International Contests respectively.

In October 2003, Vanessa Au won 2nd place in the D3 and D6 Evaluation Contest.

In Spring 2003, Robert Blake (a Competent Toastmaster) took 2nd place at the Area level in the International Speech contest.

In Fall 2002, Nitin Barve (a Competent Toastmaster) won the 2nd place at the Area level Evaluation Contest.

In 2002, Nicole Lam won a contest at the Area level as well.

Our former club president, Elliott Cox, was the Toastmasters Area Governor in 2001/2002.