Minutes - December 16, 2013

Club meeting of Eagle Toastmasters Wallingford, #3161 at Park and Rec in Wallingford, CT

Attendance: 8 members, 2 guests (from Rotary North Haven)

 Word of the Day

“Renaissance”

Speakers

Ute Brinkmann – “Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus”
Bruno Chima - Icebreaker
Tom Piekarski – “The Curmudgeons Strikes Again”

Evaluators

Richard Freeman
Elaine Piazza
Robin Corrigan

Minutes – December 2, 2013, Guests @ Master’s Manna

Special club meeting of Eagle Toastmasters Wallingford, #3161 at Master’s Manna in Wallingford

Attendance: 10 members, 9 guests, some under 3 feet and Master’s Manna director

 Word of the Day

“altruism” – The principal of practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others

 Quote

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa who died just a few days later

 

Speakers
Cheryl Bedore of Master’s Manna
Joe Oddie – Icebreaker
Tom Piekarski – Behind the Barn


Observation: Difficult setting for speaking – good training.

Minutes – November 18, 2013

Club meeting of Eagle Toastmasters Wallingford, #3161 at Park and Rec in Wallingford, CT

Attendance: 14 members, 2 guests

 Word of the Day

“coincidence”

Speakers

Tanya Gorshkov – Icebreaker
Robin Corrigan
Ian Brooks

Minutes – November 4, 2013

Club meeting of Eagle Toastmasters Wallingford, #3161 at Park and Rec in Wallingford, CT

Attendance: 11 members, 1 guests, 1 past member,  and division C contest winner

 Invocation

“The man who can think and does not know how to express what he thinks is at the level of him who cannot think.”   Dionysius the Elder
“Second thoughts are ever wiser.”  Euripides
“Mind your speech a little, lest it mar your fortunes.” Shakespeare, “King Lear”

 Word of the Day

“lugubrious”

Speakers

Susanne Morse (“We are not in Cheshire anymore, Hollie”)
Practice run for district 53 contest

 

We welcome our new president: Mike Connors

Minutes – October 21, 2013

Club meeting of Eagle Toastmasters Wallingford, #3161 at Park and Rec in Wallingford, CT

Attendance: 9 members, 2 guests (one guest became a member)

Invocation

“The man who can think and does not know how to express what he thinks is at the level of him who cannot think.”   Dionysius the Elder
“Second thoughts are ever wiser.”  Euripides
“Mind your speech a little, lest it mar your fortunes.” Shakespeare, “King Lear”

 Word of the Day

“pithy” (chosen by a guest)

 Speakers

Ute Brinkmann (“Men And Accessories”)
Mike Connors (“Tools, People, Putting It All Together”)

Minutes – October 7, 2013

Club meeting of Eagle Toastmasters Wallingford, #3161 at Park and Rec in Wallingford, CT

Attendance:  10 members, 1 guest (who became a member)

Word of the Day

"indubitable"

 Thought of the Day

“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”   Muhammad Ali

Speakers

Sonia Dean
Paul Douglass
Mike Connors