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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Capital City in the House!
Even though Capital City is in Division J, we were well represented last night at the Division K contest. As contest chair, Patrick opened us up with a room sing along to “You Are My Sunshine.” With about 50 people present, it was quite a rendition. Keith was the Toastmaster and had us nearly falling [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Tribute to a Toastmaster
I read a great post today on the life lessons from a Toastmaster who passed away recently. It’s well worth the read: Lessons From Ron Lewison (1938-2008) Louis
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
“Short Skirts” Meeting Recap 06/25/08
To honor and respect Amy Samet’s dignified term as magnificent yet modest president of our club, the theme chosen for today’s meeting was equally dignified: “HOORAY FOR SHORT SKIRTS!!!!” Amy headed up the short skirt brigade followed by several other pairs of legs, including Carlos’. Keith wasn’t distracted in the least bit, and stayed focused [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
“Love to Hate” Meeting Recap 6/18/08
Dear capital city folk, Don’t hate – appreciate! The meeting was full of haters hatin’ on mad issues, like them crazy cockroaches and rats that be up in Wendy’s crib at night, giving our otherwise smooth Toastmaster some crazy eye twitch thang. Wendy’s topic hit home with everyone, because who doesn’t love to hate something?? [...]