We had another great meeting Friday (the 27th) of October with 21 members and 5 guests present, thereby continuing our recent series of highly attended meetings. This is the best such stretch since Fall 1978! Next week we will vote on our 20th new member since July 1st - this achievement is virtually unheard of in any Toastmasters club anywhere!
Carl Thormeyer led us through a well-run meeting featuring three icebreakers… Bill Harley, Dave Mazur and Shenequa Mitchell all delivered outstanding speeches. Shenequa won “Best Speaker”, while Dave was “Most Improved”. New member Elizabeth Mitchell won “Best Table Topics” over two other new members, while General Evaluator (GE) Arnie Buss awarded the “Best Evaluator” trophy to our president Brendan Epps. Arnie commented as GE that Carl had effectively conducted a clinic in “how to be Toastmaster”, but actually Arnie conducted his own clinic in “how to be a General Evaluator”, even to the point of sending detailed instructions to the evaluators ahead of time! Additionally, several people got credit for performing various roles in the new Competent Leader manual.
The nominating committee, headed by Arnie Buss, is looking for members willing to serve as an officer during the next term, Jan-June 2007. If no-one from the committee has contacted you and you would like to run for one of the offices, please contact Arnie soonest. The nominating committee will report out on November 3rd with the election at the following meeting on Nov. 17th. Anyone may run for office from the floor on the 17th; you don’t have to be nominated by the nominating committee. The only qualification is that you are willing to serve a full six-month term if elected.
Reminder: No meeting on 10 and 24 November due to holidays. Last meeting before the end of 2006 will be our annual fun-filled holiday gift exchange meeting on 15 December. Meetings will then resume the first Friday in January, when the newly elected officers will be installed.
Reminder: Treasurer Fred Sadler will be hosting a “pot-luck” club social to be held at his house in Carmel on Sunday
afternoon November 12th. He has provided details, so put the date aside now!
And one last thing…. Sign up now at a reduced price for the District 4 Fall Conference in Milpitas on Saturday November 18th! Our very own Glenn Tolle will represent Division A in the Humorous Speech Contest, having won the Club, Area, and Division contests previously. Details at www.d4tm.org.
For better listening, thinking and speaking,
- Carl
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