Meeting notes, November 13, 2008

We had 14 members at our meeting last night.

Cheryl gave us an update on our Distinguished Club Program progress, and let the club know that we have already achieved "Distinguished" status. Congratulations, everyone. We will keeping working to attain "President's Distinguished", as we have for the past three years.

Dianne Olsen served as Toastmaster for the evening, and she did a great job - and she gave us candy! Beth Legnani was our Table-Topics master, providing scenarios for members to improvise on, two at a time.

We heard 4 prepared speeches, from Kay Jeyapalan, Ramesh Padavala, Rob Schaff, and Kim Price. Tom Alvord worked on perfecting his approach as General Evaluator, and our evaluators provided lots of constructive feedback.

Our next meeting is December 11, 2008. This will be our last meeting of the year, so don't miss it!

Meeting November 6, 2008

We had 11 participants at our special meeting last night, November 6, at the Village at South Farms.

Jeff Lagasse took his first turn in the "big chair" as Toastmaster, and he did a great job. Pete provided fortune cookies for the table topics, and we learned that many of our members are happy as clams at high tide.

Once again, we had 4 prepared speeches, from Cheryl, Dianne, Jeff, and John. Cheryl presented the "Keeping the Commitment" program from the Toastmasters Successful Club Series. With this speech, Cheryl completed the requirements for the Advanced Leader Bronze award. Congratulations, Cheryl!

Marin Sung has joined our club, and last night she introduced herself to the club with a short prepared speech. Marin (pronounced "marine") is the 8th new member to join this year.