Eagles,
Tonight’s meeting featured 15 members and 7 guests. Welcome
to Eagle, Stephen McGirr….and to Fred Swiderski, welcome back!
As tonight’s Toastmaster, Deb Haggett, led a very
lively proceeding. Ian Brooks opened up with one of the shortest jokes
in recent Eagle memory. Jamie Fisher provided the evening’s quote of the
day.
Our members and guests demonstrated their speaking acumen
throughout our meeting. Ute Brinkmann egged on our members and guests
with an Easter version of Table Topics. Many of us learned that “thriller,
filler, and spillers” is a gardening term. Stephen was asked to talk about
taxes….Allie Centorino decided to talk about taxes instead of gardening!
Sandra Centorino took on the ambitious goal of giving
a Keynote address as part of her Advanced Communications manual. Sandra gave an
inspirational speech to urge us to take the “Alternate Route”, encouraging us
to incorporate simple heroic deeds into our life and into the lives of others. Amy
Demas served as Sandra’s evaluator.
Joseph Oddie, gave a humorous speech about his
family’s experience at the Lion King. We learned that “hakuna matata” is an old
African term for “don’t take the train from Fairfield to Grand Central if you
want a seat”! Joseph’s speech offered a very entertaining and poignant story
through the eyes of his grandchildren. Jaime Fisher evaluated Joseph’s
speech.
Many thanks to our functionaries not mentioned above…..Chris
Gaffney as the Ah Counter, Amy Demas as the Timer, and Yours Truly
as the Grammarian and General Evaluator.
As tonight’s grammarian, I noticed the use of the word
“anyways” and mentioned that the correct term is “anyway”. The omission of the
letter “s” is explained in the following link for those of you that are
interested.
Finally, it is a real pleasure and privilege for each of us
to enjoy the members and guests that attended this evening’s meeting. We look
forward to seeing all of you at our next meeting on 5/1! By the way, I will be
the Toastmaster……please sign up for something!
Tony Centorino
Eagle Secretary
