India

Nineteen members and two guests were treated to three terrific speeches, which were well orchestrated by TMoD and Club President Robin Walker. Robin "set the example" with a precise, efficient meeting program which ran like clockwork. His theme of "India" helped us all get into the spirit of his upcoming around-the-world trip to Singapore, India, and Washington, DC. Table Topics Master Shenequa Mitchell hit the Web to come up with some outstanding Indian-related Table Topics.

We also inducted Masami Maeda into membership. Welcome!

Winners were:
*** Best Speaker: David Schulz's Icebreaker (see below)
*** Best Evaluator: Fred Sadler, evaluating Glenn Woodson's #6 speech
*** Best Table Topics: Luke Lazzari (In his Table Topic, he spoke of his favorite adventure sport!)
*** Most Improved: Alex Bein (In his Table Topic, he said he would buy his wife a Lexus if he could!)

We're #1 (actually, tied...)! We have now achieved three of 10 goals for Distinguished Club Plan recognition for 2007-08. We are tied with three other clubs for the District 4 lead among 200+ clubs. We have met half of three additional goals - let's be first in District 4 to become distinguished, and the first to get all 10 goals as well! To become distinguished, we need two of the following:
*** Two more new members,
*** Dues paid on time (by 30 Sept.), or
*** One more Comptent Communicator!

David Schultz's Icebreaker speech I Have Yet to Work a Day in my Life


Chance Litton's #3 speech A Mystery of Matter


Glenn Woodson's #6 speech Beyond the Nineteenth Hole


Note 1: Due to waning interest, Smedley Saturdays will be scheduled in the future only if at least three members are prepared to give speeches.

Note 2: We now have a vacancy in the office of Sergeant-at-Arms. Eric Timmerman has submitted his resignation from that office due to his overwhelming workload. An election will be held soon to replace Eric for the rest of the term through December.

Note 3: TI WHQ has rolled out the new public and members only Web sites. These sites will take some getting used to, as they are now much different in look-and-feel. For the "Members Only" Web site, you will need to establish login information in order to access all the available goodies. Your member number (as shown on the label to your TOASTMASTER magazine) is your default login. From there you can request and be assigned a password from TI WHQ, which will be returned to you via email. However, one can still conduct club business without logging in as in the past, simply by registering the club number and club password (once you figure out how to get to that part of the Web site).