While I remind the Toastmaster each week to craft and submit a meeting recap, I was remiss in recapping the meeting of January 7, 2010, when I served as Toastmaster.
It was our first meeting of the New Year, and the theme, appropriately, was “Happy New Year.” There was promise of a celebration, and the meeting did not disappoint!
There were two Ice Breaker speeches. Leslie Smith gave her very first Toastmasters speech – a very courageous, emotional and personal beginning to her Toastmasters journey, earning her “Toastmaster of the Day.”
Betty Liedtke began her third Competent Communicator Manual, with “Find Your Buried Treasure,” telling of her exciting new business venture. She plans to use this manual to talk about and reflect on the experiences in this venture.
Two new members were inducted into the club – Kimberly Jurek, who also served as Ah Counter, and Vivien Bacaner. Welcome, Kimberly and Vivien!
Uplifting and engaging speech evaluations were offered by Jean Keating and Susan Budig, who served double duty as grammarian, with “interjection” (the form of speech, not the word) as the word of the day. What a creative idea!
Stefan Stamenkovic did an excellent job as timer and Dawn Anderson was her usual enthusiastic and supportive self as general evaluator.
The meeting concluded with a non-alcoholic champagne toast welcoming the New Year with all of its potentiality and promise.
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