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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
“New Years” Meeting Recap - 12/31/08
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Before we rang in the new year, we gathered for one last meeting of 2008. Louis was back with us and toastmastered us through his last meeting as president of this club. It was a good one.
Raj, [...]
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
“Holiday Wishes” Meeting Recap - 12/17/08
Brendan opened this meeting with the holiday sentiment, “May we all get what we deserve.” Brendan, having you back for a meeting was already far more than we deserve. It was a wonderful start to the holiday season.
Amy led this meeting in which Susana made her first appearance as Table Topics Master. Brendan relayed his [...]
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
“Holiday Sugar High” Meeting Recap - 12/10/08
Last week, incoming President Keith stepped in and presided over the meeting. We got a taste of what’s to come with his presidency. Chaos. Disorder. Mayhem. Much like what happens when kids are given too much candy. In fact, all of us kids were given too much candy, so we had a wonderfully energetic meeting.
It should [...]
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
“Holiday Gripes” Meeting Recap - 10/3/08
Albert picked the theme “Holiday Gripes” for our first meeting in December. (What happened, Albert? Did you have a rough Thanksgiving?) So we totally avoided the spirit of the season but had a great meeting.
Let’s get the gripes out first. We hate holiday music before Thanksgiving, coupons that don’t apply to already discounted items, the waste of wrapping paper, Christmas [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
“Happy Thanksgiving” Meeting Recap - 11/19/08
Attendance this week more than doubled from last week! Did you folks think that a ”Happy Thanksgiving” theme meant we were serving turkey? Whatever the reason for the fantastic turnout, we’re so glad you all made it. It was great to see Stephen and Maria again. And we loved having David and Amit make repeat visits [...]
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
“Toastmasters 101″ Meeting Recap - 11/12/08
This meeting was a refresher on the basics of a Toastmasters meeting.
Lora led as Toastmaster and reminded us that the transfer of the lectern occurs by handshake. Historically, a handshake was used to show an enemy that one wasn’t carrying a weapon. We are not enemies - though some of us might argue that the Table [...]
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
“Flying” Meeting Recap - 11/5/08
Stewardess/Toastmaster Amy greeted all passengers and piloted the flight on Capital City One. Once we were buckled in, Amy introduced the crew - Susana as invocator, Brian as timer, Taline as grammarian, Keith as Table Topics Master, Stuart and Leeanne as speakers, Albert as the general evaluator, and Wendy and Louis as speech evaluators.
It was a smooth flight. [...]
