Attendance Records Broken at 29 Sept Meeting!

What a terrific meeting we had this past Friday September 29th! The electricity and energy in the room kept going for nearly an hour after the formal adjournment! Here are some highlights:

Our September 29th meeting set two all-time records for a regular weekly meeting of our club

• Most guests (15), and
• Largest attendance ever (35).
  

This exceeds the previous record of 32 (27 members and 5 guests), which occurred on 13 October 1978.

Welcome to our newest member, Erika Hunsicker, from MIIS. Erika had been a guest of Lars Olberg, also of MIIS. Erika is our 13th (count ‘em!) new member since July 1st. What a great
group of folks to all start out together in the Toastmasters program.

Of our 15 guests this week, three submitted membership applications on the spot! We’ll tell you who they are after we vote them into membership next week.

We had two outstanding speeches:

• Lars Olberg (#3) dazzled us with an absolutely hilarious PowerPoint presentation using the “smart-screen” about being a world-wide traveler. (I particularly liked his map of the world!) He won “Most Improved” for his effort.
• Fred Sadler (#7), in "period" costume, explained to us how George Washington was NOT the first President of the United States - he was the 8th! (Huh?!?!? Actually, there were seven previous Presidents under the Articles of Confederation. And, we found that we were woefully ignorant about our country’searly history!) Thanks, Fred - and congratulations on being voted “Best Speaker”.
  

Warner, as TM of the Day, stressed the importance of what we learned content-wise from the speeches. “Our members aren't just speaking to fulfill a goal, they're sharing pertinent information passionately and making it relevant to the entire club.”

Fred and Linda are neck-and-neck in the race to see who will be next to finish the basic manual and achieve “Competent Communicator (CC)”. Any bets?

Congratulations to Glenn Tolle (Best Evaluator) and to Robin Walker (Best Table Topics). Robin also ran a mean “Ah-Bell”…. No slack for anyone!

It was good to see Charlie Eskridge back after many months. He was immediately called upon as a Table Topics speaker by another of our energetic new members, Bill Harley (as Table Topics Master)! (No “slack”, Charlie!)

And, believe it or not, the meeting started and ended on time (not counting guest comments). Good work, Warner (as TM) and Brendan (as President). And thanks, Linda, for that terrific
and insightful general evaluation!

Plan NOW to attend the Division A Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest at the Aptos Academy in Aptos on Saturday afternoon October 7th. Registration starts at 12:30PM.
Our own Glenn Tolle, NPS Club and Area A-1 humorous speech contest winner, will be competing for the right to move on to the District 4 contest in Milpitas on November 18th. See Area Governor Arnie Buss for a flyer with directions.