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Arthur Storer
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The Arthur Storer Toastmasters Club Newsletter January, 2008 |
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Topics Covered in this
Newsletter: Marketing
ideas Don't
Be Shy Officer
Training Meeting
Recap Next
Meeting (and
when it is) |
MARKETING
IDEAS Please bring in any of
your old Toastmaster Magazines that you're not likely to ever read again. We
have got sticky address labels that announce our club's location, dates, time
and website that we can cover over your personal information. You can then take these
magazines and drop them off in waiting rooms, when you get your car fixed,
visit the doctor or dentist, etc. Anywhere that people congregate and are
totally bored! DON'T
BE SHY Sign up for a role. Try something you've never tried before. Once you
have given three speeches, you can sign up to Evaluate someone's speech. If you've been to several meetings, have already filled the Timer, Ah
Counter, and Invocator role, etc. why not try being our next meeting's
Toastmaster? We now have templates to assist you. Go to the Available Download
section of our website and you'll be able to download the Meeting Toastmaster
Checklist, to assist you in preparing and fulfilling your role. There is also a Meeting Agenda template which you can also download,
fill in and print out to distribute. Note that the Agenda template is two
sided. On the back side is useful information to help our Club planning. Click here
for Downloads, then enter your password. Many thanks to those who helped contribute to making the forms that are
posted. OFFICER
TRAINING One of our six (or is it seven? Too much time spent in a closet lately) Officers
has already been trained this year. Several have said they'll attend the
session on February 9th. Details of that session, and others, can
be found at this link: http://tmd55.org/training.shtml.
Please go and support your club. It'd be fabulous to be President's
Distinguished again this year (for a third year running), and you can make
that happen. MEETINGS
RECAP January
19th Another fantabulous Arthur Storer Club meeting. We had 1 guest who was
a returning guest. I guess we haven't scared him off! Yours truly (me, Mary) was our Toastmaster today, with the theme:
Closets. We had a lot of fun learning what our fellow toastmasters have
stuffed away in their storage closets, or rooms! Bill played Hernando’s Hideaway this morning, which brought back
memories . . . for me, at least. We had three speakers this morning. Bill delivered a talk on his Forex
(Foreign Exchange) Trading Session, cramming 6 hours of professional delivery
into 10 minutes of amazing facts which were illustrated on slides. James was our second speaker and delivered his Icebreaker speech. He
wowed all of us with his warm, vibrant style (for a first-timer!) delivering
a professional presentation on his new company. Josie was our third speaker and shared a very moving speech that won
her best speaker. She told us of an accident that nearly cost her her life,
all because another driver was on a cell phone while driving. Eva was Table Topics master today, and entertained us all with great questions:
Mario was asked what secrets he keeps in his closet, or if none, what
does he think (Mario said he does not
have any secrets in his closet, that we probably should not talk about Victoria
in Toastmasters meetings, BUT he keeps a knife, cables and rope in the trunk
of his car . . . just incase he meets up with Rich was asked to describe the strangest thing that ever happened to
him in a closet! (Rich said his mind was
still working on the image Mario gave of Martha was asked about monsters in the closet, and where did she hide
as a child when scared. (She said that she
liked to hide in small places, and shared a story of when she was scared of
punishment and hid between the couch and wall, but her mother found her
anyway and said she was too young to be spanked. Phew!) Charles Clack was asked about the strangest thing in his closet and how
old it was? (He shared a tale of
how they had lost a kitten in their storage closet for two days once. Then,
they noticed that his wife's expensive, long leather coat had the entire
right sleeve shredded from where that little kitten had clambered up and down
during its sojourn in there. A new black and white fashion statement, Charles
said, but added that his wife refuses to wear it. And they also refuse to let
the cats in that closet now.) AWARD
WINNERS January
19th James received the First Speech Award. Josie Zamora took Best Speaker award, and Charles Clack the Best
Evaluator award. Charles Clack took Best Table Topics, and Mary Montgomery received the
Most Enthusiast award. BIRTHDAYS
No birthdays in January. Next month, in February, we will celebrate . . . nobody's birthday
again! FEBRUARY MEETINGS: Our next meeting will be February 2nd, and after that, February 16th. Our meetings are now on every 1st, 3rd, and 5th (if there is one)
Saturdays of each month. We hope to see you
all at the next meeting. |