Alcohol Works but Eagle Rocks!

Dear All,

It was a hot and a "dry" day but that did not stop us from having another great and fun filled meeting. "Dry" in the sense that we did not have alcohol served in the meeting after 3 consecutive meetings where alcohol sort of stole the show; and even then we had 20 members  including 4 guests, out of which 3 signed on the dotted line. That is Great and Welcome on board to the new members!

With record high temperatures this year, Ian, as table topics master, aptly chose "Heat" and various connotations of Heat like hot, hotter, etc as the theme for tonight's table topics. The whole room went quiet when Ian asked for volunteers to talk about the "hotter person" - I don't know what everyone was thinking but I know for sure that Kate (past club president) was thinking about George Clooney and I was thinking about Catherine Zeta Jones...( Now you guys know what Presidents think like , I mean eagle club presidents), but Robin broke the ice by stepping forward and started talking about her grandmother as the hotter person. Robin had the whole room cracked up in her 2 min table topics speech... Timely thinking and Great Job Robin!

Rachel with Area Governor hat thanked all the past club officers for the last year Club's achievements and then installed the current officers. It was very formal and this was a new experience for all of us... Looked very formal but Rachel with her magic touch made the whole episode very enjoyable.... Rachel also used her charm in making 5 members commit (voluntarily) for completing their CCs and 3 members for finishing their ACs( I have the names written down.. No ESCAPE. :) ).. Thanks Rachel for making my life very easy.

Ute stepped in when 2 speakers had to back out in the last minute and it was an appropriate continuation to where Rachel left off. 3 EEEs always sum up Ute's speeches.. Engaging, Energy and Enthusiasm... And this speech was no different. She makes it look very easy.....

And of course best for the last, we had an icebreaker speech given by Dawit who joined our club only in the last meeting. Dawit took us through his journey from Ethiopia to Europe to New Haven. Dawit has a Ph.D and he is carrying out research on coming up with early diagnostic tools for cancers like pancreatic cancer in particular at the Yale school of medicine. Dawit claims to be stubborn (?) though he does not look like at all and he loves soccer apart from research.

Finally after today's meeting I am convinced that it is our club's energy, chemistry and the atmosphere we create are the reasons for the recent good turn out for the meetings and not the alcohol..... So  Alcohol works but Eagle rocks!

Of course as usual please sign up for the roles and please contact me or any of the officers if you want to speak and there are no slots available.... We can always try to accommodate.

Goodnight and see you all in 3 weeks on Aug 6th. 

Regards,

Chandra