Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
New member David Jorgensen
He already gave a table topic as a guest, and is signed up to give his icebreaker next week! We voted him in unanimously based on his 3 answers:
fav color: Orange
fav cartoon: Beavis and Butthead?!
AND he knew that Bob Denver played Gilligan! bonus!
Welcome, David!
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The International Speech un-contest Recap 3/26/08
This week we didn’t have the awesome meeting we normally have, because it was BETTER than that!!! That’s because our favorite animated Italian Corky, also a past president of Capital City, was our Toastmaster! He welcomed John’s international students in his native south austin tongue: “Hey Bubba”, and charmed the lady-guests we had too. Oh, [...]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
St. Patrick’s Meeting Recap 3/12/08
Green people, green shamrocks, green cookies, and green SALSA!! Take that, Ireland! We know how to do St. Patrick’s Day right here!! I’d love to take credit for it all but lucky for me… Maria, Amy and Wendy were the laboring lasses!
Even without her lucky speaking shoes, Amy rocked as table topics [...]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Relaxation Recap 3/5/08
Just when you thought things were getting predictable… when meetings are all the same… agendas? boring! punctuality? loosen up! We’re here to relaaaax with Bert as our toastmaster. Strolling in right on Bert time, he picked up right where Wendy, our table topics master, left off. She was truly [...]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Welcome new member Gene Butler!
Gene Butler joined the club at last week’s meeting, the first member in over a year to be voted in with the old tradition of asking 3 questions.
Favorite color? Blue
Favorite TV show? The Wire
Who played the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island? … that’s a gimme …
He’s in, and he’ll be back after a couple weeks vacation!
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Congratulations Louis!
Louis Burns, our Vice President Education, received his Advanced Communicator Gold and Distinguished Toastmaster awards.