ACHIEVERS
Lynn Wojcik, Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City Public Safety Department head, recently won three gold medals in the World Police and Fire Games in Los Angeles.
Wojcik competed and won gold medals in three events: Women’s singles racquetball, mixed doubles racquetball and women’s grand master division bench press.
The World Police and Fire Games are an Olympic-style competition with 10,000 athletes representing law enforcement, firefighters, and officers from corrections, probation, border protection, immigration and customs from more than 70 countries. Athletes compete in more than 60 sports.
Clyde Hughes, a musician, photographer and computer technician, has won the Toastmasters Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest, Area Level (A3), Division A, District 16, with the speech “All Aboard, Uncle Wilbur.”
Hughes, along with three other contestants, competed during an event at the Uptown Club Toastmasters 627 meeting at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15.
Hughes will proceed to the next level of competition, the Division Contest, on Sept. 23.
For more information about the club’s meetings, go to http://627.toastmastersclubs.org. To be considered for this column, please send achievement announcements and photos to LLynn@Oklahoman.com.