We had another great meeting last night - Tuesday December
20th, 2011!
Congratulations to all who
participated!
Members in attendance…
Akshay Dhote
Charlie Hubert
Charnaie Gordon
Elizabeth Landeen
Heather Turner
Louis Nizet
Mary Talbot
Mano Rudravajhala
Sharon Roth
Tom Alvord
Guests …
Dave Roman
Eileen Baird
We began promptly at 5:30 being called to order by substitute
Sergeant At Arms Charlie Hubert who introduced President Tom Alvord …
Tom…
recognized …
new members Elizabeth Landeen and
Sharon Roth
guests Dave Roman and Eileen
Baird.
announced important dates:
February 21 – Open house
March 20th – Club
Contest
April – Guest speaker by skype –
Marilyn Jess
VP PR Heather Turner
…
Invited us all to our Holiday
Party at her house for January 24th
Reminded us to be sure to use our
new website from now on at http://cromwellcommunitytoastmasters.toastmastersclubs.org/.
Tuesday was the last meeting for
which we will have used the old website at freetoasthost.
Heather then took over as Toastmaster, ably introducing all
participants and keeping us on track!
Charlie Hubert gave a combined Invocation and Word of the day
which was “Courage”. Charlie had the courage and wisdom to print
out the word “COURAGE” twice as big as any previous Word of The
Day.
Mary Talbot then served as Table Topics Master with very
interesting topics having participants give their speech based on pictures –
tiny pieces of art she showed to them and then asked them to pass around for all
to see.
Prepared speeches were given by …
Mano Rudravajhala –
Project #8 from the CC Manual:
Get Comfortable with Visual Aids
Title: “Habits; Exposing the
Inspirational Seven Habits of Highly Effective people by Stephen Covey”
Sharon Roth – Speech #8 from
3rd CC manual: "Get Comfortable with Visual Aids
Title: A Gift for
Any Occasion
Charnaie Gordon – Custom Speech: "Share the Vision" relating
to her
High Performance Leadership
projects including the Division C Toastmasters
Leadership Exchange to be held Monday, January 30 from 6:30-8:30 at Middlesex
Community College.
Tom Alvord as General Evaluator introduced the following:
Charlie Hubert who evaluated
Mano’s speech
Heather Turner who evaluated
Sharon’s speech
Louis Nizet who evaluated
Charnaie’s speech
Word Master:
Charlie Hubert
Ah Counter:
Mary Talbot (Welcome back Mary!)
Grammarian:
Charnaie
Timer:
Akshay Dhote
Tom then gave a positive evaluation of the well run
enthusiastic meeting along with some minor improvements that could be made
suggesting that we can never be too well prepared.
During the closing of the meeting Sharon Roth gave an
enthusiastic description of the intriguing plan for gift exchange that is in the
works for our Party on January 24th. (Did I say it’s
on Jan 24th at Heather’s place? – Yahoo! )
Tom happily took down the names of several volunteers for
roles for our January 17th meeting:
·
Toastmaster: Charlie· General Evaluator – Charnaie
· Table Topics – Louis
Multiple hands went up for each
opportunity! We are reminded that we can sign up in advance on the web site: http://cromwellcommunitytoastmasters.toastmastersclubs.org/
Our next meeting is January 3rd at which we expect
to have similar enthusiasm, growth, leadership and lots of fun!
New membership pins were presented three of our most recently
joined members:
Mano
Sharon
Elisabeth
Finally – and very importantly – we are all delighted to
welcome
as new members our two guests Eileen Baird and Dave
Roman! Both of these hardy newcomers said that this seems like the type of club
they’ve been looking for.
Respectfully submitted,
Tom Alvord
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