Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
“Dog Days of Summer” Meeting Recap 07/23/08
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Lora headed up the meeting today bringing some Sirius energy to a dog day afternoon. Patrick didn’t roll over and play dead on his job as Table Topic Master. Dressed for the weather (no suit), he [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
“Restaurant” Meeting Recap 07/16/08
Dear Capital City Friends,
Hostess with the Mostess Maria Harp made her debut as Toastmaster today. The theme was ‘Restaurants’ and she was cooking like Betty Crocker!
For our appetizer/invocation, we were served some sad news - member David Jorgensen is leaving our club and moving back to Utah. But he left a tip - a lead to [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Officer Training Road Trip!
Last Saturday, when it was over 100 degrees again, was the kind of day you like to spend indoors - in an air conditioned room, perhaps sitting on a block of ice. Well Louis, Taline, and I all took a road trip down to San Marcos to do just that: attend Toastmasters officer traning in [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
“America the Beautiful - South America, that is” Meeting Recap 07/09/08
Greetings and Taco Bell Everyone!
You may have heard by now that there were South Americans at our meeting and that they found it “interesting”, “different”, “fanspecial”! It was surprising to hear our club’s reputation has spread throughout the Americas. It makes me want to scream, “HAY MUCHOS LIBROS EN LA BIBLIOTECA! ” [...]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Upcoming Events
There are several events coming up on the calender.
To find all Austin-wide events, look at the Austin calender we posted at http://toastmastersinaustin.info. At that site, you’ll find all sorts of forms for trainings, competitions and contests.
Specifically:
Next weekend, July 12th, is the Toastmasters Leadership Institute in San Marcos. There will be a lot of general training [...]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
A Message From Your New Club President
Fellow Toastmasters,
I want to outline what I’d like to accomplish during my term as your Capital City Toastmasters President.
My overall strategic goal is for us to challenge, appreciate and inspire each member of Capital City.
My top priority is to make sure all of the rest of our officers have everything they need to complete their [...]
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
“If I Were A Disney Character, I’d Be…” Meeting Recap 07/02/08
Hi Hooooooo!
If Walt Disney had been thawed out from his cryogenic slumber and brought to our meeting yesterday he probably would’ve been slumped over against a wall attracting flies because science hasn’t yet worked out how to bring dead people back to life. But I think if we had forced his cold, stiff mouth into [...]
