Eagles,
The word of the day was engaged and that is the perfect word to describe this evening's meeting. There were 18 members in attendance and 4 guests.
Paula was first time Toastmaster and ran the meeting like a pro. She was well prepared making sure roles were filled, speech introductions were in place and the agenda was ready to go by the start of the meeting. There were three prepared speeches. Richard Freeman gave an acceptance speech on behalf of Judy Freeman for the Best Horse Show Mom award. Amy Demas delivered a Toastmaster TripTik guide using handouts and visual aides and finally Rachel Mele gave her last speech toward DTM. Rachel shared with us her High Performance Leadership project and how much she benefited from doing it. Congratulations Rachel on this great achievement and reaching your goal to be DTM!
JanJam has been rescheduled to Saturday, February 13th. It is a free event that you may want to check out - http://d53.
Our club spring contest is just around the corner. Tony Centorino has volunteered to be contest chair. The spring contest is Tall Tales and International. The club contest must be held no later than March 20th so start thinking about if you'd like to compete in either one or both of these contests or if you'd like to serve in one of the many contest roles.
I noticed that the speaking roles are filled for the next several meetings and now we will have one meeting in March devoted to the club contest. If any of you would like to give a speech and don't want to wait please let me know. We can always make one of the next meetings a speech-a-thon meeting where we open up additional slots for prepared speeches.
Tom Corrigan volunteered to be Toastmaster for the February 15th meeting. Please sign up for roles and speakers provide your introductions prior to the meeting so he can have everything organized in advance.
Thank you all for making our club outstanding!
All the best,
Kate Kelly
President, Eagle Toastmasters
