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Arthur Storer
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The Arthur Storer Toastmasters Club Newsletter December, 2007 |
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NEW
MEMBERS We are proud to announce
that we had two new members join us recently: Charles Goforth and Cecilia
Galliano. Cecilia is a returning member and we're glad to have her back on
board. We look forward to hearing more from these two new members. Since the beginning of our new
Toastmaster year, July 1st 2007, we have added 9 new members. Way to go,
Arthur Storer! New members are: Lipeng Cao, Charles Clack, Cecilia
Galliano, Charles Goforth, Christine Ihorn, Eva Odima, Deanne Repich, Mark
Victor, and Josie Zamora. MEETING
TEMPLATES AVAILABLE Calling all future Meeting Toastmasters: Also on the
site is a new Meeting Toastmaster Checklist, to assist you in preparing and
fulfilling your role. I plan to create a General Evaluator Checklist as well,
and welcome input. Click here
for Downloads, then enter your password. Many thanks to those who helped contribute to making the forms that are
posted. MEETINGS
RECAP December
8th Another fantabulous Arthur Storer Club meeting. We had 1 guest who
signed up. Cecilia Galliano is rejoining our club. Charles Clack was our Toastmaster today, with the theme:
Time/Calendars, etc. With his usual wit and style he had us in stitches by
sharing how we can recycle calendars. "Did you know," he said,
"that calendar years repeat every seven years? So next year you can
reuse your 2001 calendar, by writing in important commitments in red
ink." Then he showed us a Day Timer he plans to reuse, and chuckled that
he won't even need to use a red pen and that year he must've done nothing.
The book was completely empty. At the end of the meeting, Charles brought us all much joy, along with
reason for serious reflection. He shared that after four years, his
granddaughter no longer requires oxygen life support. Charles then encouraged
each of us to re-examine our priorities and make 2008 a year to devote our
time to what is truly important. We had two speakers this morning. Jeff Johannigman shared his moving
experience of recently losing his mother. Jeff, our master storyteller,
switched gears from his usual comedy to sincere tragedy, showing us once
again that storytelling is a powerful took to evoke emotions in the audience. Lark was our second speaker and delivered an inspiring poem for her
project in Interpretative Reading. Those eyes that weren't wet already from
Jeff's speech, were definitely wet during Lark's recitation. Rich was Table Topics master today, and surprised us all by bringing
numbered envelopes filled with questions dreamt up by his kids. There were
some doozers too, such as: "What's your best pick-up line?" December
29th Stephanie Miller-Pu gave an entertaining, advanced speaker presentation
from The Discussion Leader manual. She taught us all that we can draw, even
if we don’t think we can. We all had a
lot of fun enhancing her original stick figure, and/or watching other members
do so. Charles Clack delivered a memorable Icebreaker Speech. Having completed
his DTM some time ago, he is starting over! Today he shared “The Watchmaker”
and tied in the heart wrenching yet heart warming story of his granddaughter
with the bigger scheme of things. Josie Zamora delivered her second speech and had us all captivated for
her entire presentation. She shared the history of the ancient family
tradition of Las Tamaleras, what it involves, and how she experienced it with
her sisters and mother, annually. Then we all enjoyed delicious tamales
afterwards. AWARD
WINNERS December
8th Jeff took Best Speaker award, and Mary Montgomery the Best Evaluator
award. Steve Sigrest took Best Table Topics, and Charles Clack received the
Most Enthusiastic award. December
29th Josie Zamora took Best Speaker award, and Bill Whisenant the Best
Evaluator award. Lark Doley took Best Table Topics, and Mario Galliano received the Most
Enthusiast award. BIRTHDAYS
We celebrated three December birthdays earlier this month: Mary
Montgomery, Debi Sigrest, and Donna Stefanov all are December babies! The
latter two weren't there to enjoy cake, but the rest of us did, including
Jeff Johannigman who'd missed his birthday cake last month. Next month, in January, we have NO member birthdays! DECEMBER AND JANUARY
MEETINGS: Our next meeting will be January 5th, and after that, January 19th. Our meetings will now be held on every 1st, 3rd, and 5th (if there is
one) Saturdays of each month. We hope to see you
all at the next meeting. Officers, however, note that there is a TLI
scheduled the same day. Please plan to
make that session, and get your training out of the way early. |