Eagles,
Our 2016-17 year kicked off with a New Year’s style celebration, courtesy of Ute Brinkmann!
Tom Piekarski, our new VP Education, kicked off our meeting with and presented Kate, our past President, with a beautiful plaque. Yours Truly served as Eagle’s Toastmaster for the evening, and what an evening it was! Our meeting started with 16 members and 5 guests, and ended with 17 members and 4 guests!
Two of our guests were special. First, Val Hamilton became a “former guest” and “new member”. Welcome, Val! Our second Guest was Kevin Broadbin, who took his championship speech for a test drive with Eagle. Our club, led by our General Evaluator Ian Brooks, provided Kevin a round robin evaluation. Good luck to Kevin as he heads to Washington DC for the championship.
Sandra Centorino led Table Topics, using Table Top items as a prompt. Joseph Oddie was our Humorist, and Allie provided our Quote of the day and Word of the Day.
Cecil Austin was Speaker #1, where he gave his Icebreaker titled “I shouldn’t be here”. Cecil did it without notes and without hesitation…..He’s off to a great start!
Speaker #2 was Curtis Reddick, who gave an Inspirational Speech to encourage us to accomplish our goals. His speech was inspirational and, in the words of Evaluator Kate Kelly, demonstrated good form in his pushups!
Joseph was Speaker #3 and gave an advanced manual speech from the Storytelling book about gossip. He captivated the club with some humorous anecdotes and taught us a valuable lesson at the same time.
We ended our meeting listening to and evaluating Kevin’s contest tune up.
Our next meeting is on August 1st…….So far, we have only one individual signed up for a speech and no Toastmaster. Please log onto the Eagle site at www.eagletoastmasters.com and sign up for something!
See you all on August 1st!
Tony
Eagle Club Secretary
