January 5, 2012 Theme: Resolutions

Resolutions

We all have resolutions and Sharon D’Arcey, chairperson explained the importance of resolutions and gave examples. George Nichol gave us the Joke of the Day about a bus ride where he hit a rabbit and explained to us how this nice old lady revived it using a can of hair spray. The information on the can read; Hairspray revises hare and gives permanent wave.

Grammarian's word of the day was "CAPRICIOUS". An example of how this word was used is; The boss was very capricious of his employees' performance. The word was used 8 times during the meeting and during Table Topics. There were over 55 laughs during the duration of the meeting. It was great and left us all with a good feeling.

Jane Stoltz, Toast and Timer, explained the importance of having resolutions but also more important to set attainable goals for yourself.

Literary Corner, by Valrie Hummel "Life’s Greatest Lessons". The lessons were about freedom and strength, ability to choose and we have choices, excuses for not taking advantage of the opportunity to take action like by choice not by chance. Human's are not designed to live by chance, we are designed to live by choice.

We had an election for V.P. of Education lead by Keith Stoltz. Sharon D'Arcey was sworn in to take over for Jane Stoltz who had agreed to do it on a 6 month term and will be mentoring Sharon in her new role. Thank you Jane for accepting the role and helping the club at the beginning of the year.

Marie McCutcheon filled the role of Table Topics. Her topic was Resolutions and she picked the topic for every participant. The winner was Brian Camacho. It was nice to see Brian back last night after being away for the last 6 months because of his job. Brian also stepped up and did an impromptu speech as well.

Speech evaluator, Audrey Orth, evaluated Brian on his impromptu speech.

General Evaluator, Lorna VanderPloeg, gave a brief about the meeting and its different roles.

Quiz Master, Keith McCluskie, quizzed us on some easy ones and some not so easy quotes/statements made during the evening. The members scored a 9 out of10 quizzes correctly.

Next we will be starting the Speech Craft course for the following 6 weeks, I will be coordinating the workshop however would appreciate everyone’s help if we are going to make this a successful workshop.

Leo Brisebois

Linguist Club President