Peter Temesvary had the honor of being a judge at the Morgan Stanley club's fall competition last Tuesday. Peter reports back on a fun evening, with great speeches and plenty of entertainment.

There were four contestants in the Humorous Speech Contest. Kristof started things off with a talk about why he resents his girlfriend trying to always change him. Anna Maria told a wonderful story about her grandfather escaping from a Russian prison camp, only to take the train in the wrong direction, toward Siberia rather than back to Hungary. Viktor had the audience laughing with his tale of trying to get from Bonn to an island in Croatia, spiced with a dazzling array of costumes and props. Finally, Csaba talked about the trials and tribulations of pregnancy (his wife's).

Unfortunately two of the contestants were outside the time limit, which left Anna Maria to take the spoils and the first place award. There were also four contestants for Table Topics, which Viktor won by putting together a perfectly composed mini-speech reflecting on the quote "I love deadlines. I love to hear the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."  All in all it was a very enjoyable event, and a very professionally organized competition.

Morgan Stanley holds their meetings on Tuesdays at noon (and meetings are held to a strict schedule of 1 hour), and they have recently started a Hungarian session every second Thursday, also at lunchtime.

(submitted by Peter Temesvary)