June 3, 2010

Hello Members:

What an interesting, fun, educational and unusally long meeting last evening!

Our chairperson for the evening, Keith McCluskie did a great job fulfilling his role wholeheartedly, in reminding the members of other people and organizations on how they contribute to doing a great job! Sharon D'Arcey delighted us with a funny mother and toddler joke. Rich Boertien gave the toast. Our grammarian Audrey Orth encouraged the members to use the word 'adulate' which means to flatter fawningly which was used at least 10 times throughout the evening. Marie McCutcheon delighted us with her own written poem reflecting the theme. We had three wonderful speakers last evening, Marilyn Hynes working on #3 of CC manual in 'hiccups' ; Rhea Longman, working on #9 CC Part #3 of King Henry V111's children; and Jane Stoltz working on #4 of the Humorously Speaking 'Embrace the Fear of skydiving'. Each of the speakers was rewarded with written & member evaluations . Due to time our general evaluator Sharon Diehl kept it short giving the best of the evening with a few grow areas. A good part of the latter evening was spent on an unplanned but educational parliamentary procedure portion. The topic for discussion was purchasing a video camera with members contributing monies for member's growth within the meetings, an amendment of determining the cost was added. The amended motion was carried. The original motion was defeated. Perhaps this topic should be included on our June executive meeting or business meeting within in our next regular meeting. Table Topics was conducted by Rich Boertien had a very interesting and simple task to members on thanking a member for their contributions within the club! Well done by all! A special thank you was given to our newest VP of PR..Sharon D'Arcey on our spectacular newsletter and regal invite to our June 24th Oscar Evening! A fantastic meeting that had a challenging set up change and room. Our guest for the evening was Lucy, Sharon D'Arcey's sister, come again! Next week our meeting will be returning to the back room in the church.