January 14, 2009

Hi Toastmaster Members:

What a great meeting last evening, everyone was enthusiastic with Let It Snow...
We had 2 returning guests and 3 terrific speakers. Heidi Menzi did her #9 speech on Persuade with Power..There's something wrong with our hospital system, Jessica Kelly did her #8 speech on Using Visual Aids...informing us on how to read the food labels and Keith Stoltz presented cc#9, a speech that he will chair to an organization next week. The word of the evening was "vociferous" (boisterous) which was used many times. The winner of the Table Topics was our guest Marilyn Hynds with her entertaining short speech on the new Olympic sport, catching snowflakes on your tongue!!!
Thank you again for making our guests feel welcome!


The Inspirational Thought for the Day:
Smile - it makes a world of difference.
Dance - who knows when you won't be able to.
Cry - holding those emotions in, is bad for you.
Hug - helps you and helps another.
Laugh - what's the point in hiding happiness?
Live - because life is everything.

Jane Stoltz
VP of Education

Call meeting to order (7:15): Audrey Orth, ATMG
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell

Chairperson: Diane Bender, ATMG

Joke of the Day: - Keith McCluskie is working from his CC manual. He would agree with this quote by Carl Reiner “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

Guest Introductions: Rhea Longman, Marilyn Hynds

Loyal Toast & Timer: ---George Nichol
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
Grammarian: ----- Sharon Diehl
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley
Literary Corner: Jane Stoltz, ATMS

Speaker #1: CC #9 Persuade with power Heidi Menzi “Persuade the Hospitals”

Speaker #2: CC #8 Get Comfortable with Visual Aids Jessica Kelly “Interesting facts about Food Labels”

Keith will present his Vision of Victory speech during the luncheon at the Annual General meeting next Wednesday.
Keith’s favorite saying is. Live everyday like it is your last and one day you will be right.
Green light 13 yellow 14 red 15 minutes
Speaker #3: CC #9 Persuade with Power Keith Stoltz, ATMS


Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard
Table Topics : - Brent Jemmett, CC Winner of table topics, with the new Olympic sport catching snowflakes on your tongue was guest Marilyn Hynes

Evaluator #1 Keith McCluskie
Evaluator #2 Brian Camacho ATMB
Evaluator #3: Audrey Orth

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore
Quizmaster: Sharon D’Arcey

General Evaluator: Rich Boertien
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks Diane Bender, ATMG
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. ~Erma Bombeck

Executive Meeting to Follow
Dates to Mark on Your Calendar
Jan 21: Prescriptions for Life
Jan 28: It's About Time, A Workshop Meeting with condensed agenda
Feb 4: Dancing With the Stars
Feb 11: Puppy Love
Feb 12: Hanover Club International & Evaluation Contest
Feb. 13: Mt Forest Club International+ Evaluation Contest
Feb 18: International & Evaluation Club Contest
Feb 25: Snow Date for International & Evaluation Club Contest
Mar 10: Tentative Area Contest
Mar 26: Tentative Division Contest