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Debating Championships at Monash University in July 1995. All the rest of the
photos in the album here were taken at the same event, and the two teams
here are De La Salle University from the Philippines, and Bond University from
Australia. Check out too the really groovy green/white pullovers from the
Bond debaters.
2. Asians
3. Australasians
1995
4. Australasians
2001
5. Worlds 2000
at the hotel we were staying at: Hotel Enterprize in Melbourne city. The hotel
had a really nice cutout portion right in the middle for natural sunlight and
ambience to come in- my room I remember is just on the left of the picture.
From left, me, Prasenjit, Roy, Samantha, Karthik, Manish and Nona.
Evans, the Foreign Minister for Australia. He was the Guest of Honour for the
Cocktail Party we had on the opening night, held at the Melbourne Town Hall
in the main city. That's also the University debating team with me too.
this event in Melbourne, I was close to the debaters from the University of
Philippines: six speakers and their coach, Professor Ramones S. Flores. In
the picture below, the Captain for the UP team, Mildred Sollis, (the lass with
glasses) is on my left, and I adjudicated one of her debates in which her team
met an Aussie team. This was taken on our day of departure in July 1995, just
outside our hotel in Melbourne city.
Years later in the 4th Asians, I was pleasantly surprised when a debater from
UP introduced herself to me, explaining that her sister- Mildred- had told her
about this Chinese Singaporean adjudicator in Melbourne who, after her
debate, gave the best oral adjudication she'd heard for a long time, even
though her team lost!
