May 5, 2011 - Theme: Elections

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At this past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel meeting, we had our annual Elections night where we voted in our new executive officers. We had 12 members in attendance. Marilyn Miller called the meeting to order and I was our chair for the meeting. I introduced the theme of Elections for the night and went over what elections means to me. Also, throughout the meeting I shared with everyone some funny campaign slogans.

Jane Stoltz held the role of Toast and Timer and she gave our toast to Canada. Diane Bender held the role of Grammarian and she challenged us to use the word "Loquacious" which means talkative or chatty. It was used 10 times.

Here our results from our Election for our new executive (2011/2012)

• Club President - Leo Brisebois
• Vice President of Education - Jane Stoltz
• Vice President of Membership - Lorna VanderPloeg
• Vice President of Public Relations - Keith McCluskie
• Club Treasurer - George Nichol
• Club Secretary - Marilyn Miller
• Sergeant at Arms - Brent Jemmett

Keith Stoltz took on the role of Table Topics Master and had us all explain to everyone in attendance why they shouldn't vote for each speaker if they were to run for a MP (Member of Parliament). The winner was Audrey Orth. Heidi Menzi took on the role of general evaluator, where she went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting.

Hope to see everyone at our next regular meeting on Thursday.

Brent