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Some of my interests.

I am an active member of the local Toastmasters International Organisation.
I am currently President of my home club Hopkins Toastmasters. I am also the Area 22 Governor, in District 18. In addition to the Hopkins Club, I am also a member of two other clubs, Patuxent Toastmasters (Columbia, MD), and Maryland Advanced Speakers (Baltimore, MD).

I also enjoy web design and playing around with Adobe Photoshop. I am webmaster of several web pages, and update the web site of a local newsletter.

I enjoy various other activities. In the UK I was very active in the local field hockey club, occasionally playing, more often umpiring. I also umpired at the junior county level. I was the County Under 15's team manager during the season prior to my leaving the UK. I served as the secretary of the Cambridge Ladies Hockey Club for two periods, most recently the 1995/96 season My other sporting activities included playing and umpiring cricket, I was a senior technical officer for the National Indoor Hockey league from 1990-1998. I also played badminton, squash and soccer at the club level.

I also participated in local amateur dramatics, directing plays and performing various back stage activities for the local drama club. I was the Secretary of Sawston Drama Festival Organisation for two years (1990-91), which involved organising an annual Drama Festival for eight local groups. Liaising with the Groups and arranging adjudicators, co-ordinating the back stage crew and ensuring the smooth running of the three day festival.

I also write fiction, short stories, a novel and plays. One of which I received an award for when it was performed at a local drama festival.

I am an avid Star Trek fan, preferring Voyager and the Original Series over The Next Generation and Deep Space 9. I am also an active member of several internet based discussion groups.

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