Happy Sunday Eagles -
The 6th marked the first meeting of the year - and a big one at that! With 23 members and 5 guests, we needed an additional table and chairs to handle the overflow (Holy cow).
Ann McGuire, our fill-in Sergeant at Arms, opened up the meeting. Ute Brinkmann brought in a variety of vegan sweets and bottles of bubbly stuff. Christine Austin, our new President, gave a toast…..and just like that, Eagle Toastmasters rang in the New Year!
Tom Piekarski, served as our Humorist and Brad Leete provided us his quote of the day.
Speaker #1, Tony Centorino, gave a speech introducing his High-Performance Leadership project called Pathways Now! The goal of the project is to create a club full of Pathway Pedestrians….budding speakers and leaders that are learning at their own pace. More to follow!
Speaker #2, Maryanne Shirshac, gave a speech from the Pathways Dynamic Leadership path. Maryanne shared what she learned about her leadership style (she is a “Democratic Leader”).
Carlos Perez, Speaker #3, gave a speech from the Innovative Planning Path. We learned about a time where Carlos went from feeling intimidated by more experienced students in his class to becoming a black belt. It was an inspirational story and a good reminder of what we can accomplish if we focus on self-improvement, one step at a time.
And speaking of self-improvement, Eric Krausz, Speaker #4, spoke about self-improvement books. An avid self-improvement book reader, Eric shared his disagreement with the critics of this genre by saying “ignoring self help wisdom is a sin”.
Ann McGuire led our Table Topics….she avoided the temptation of asking New Year resolution questions and led our members to speak on topics ranging from outer space travels to the wardrobe our descendants will wear 100 years from now.
Thank you to all that served in functional roles…Ian Brooks, Grammarian, Robin Corrigan, Ah Counter, Sandra Centorino, Timer. And thank you to our evaluators, Omar Ghannam, Kate Kelly, Tom Corrigan, and, Joseph Oddie.
And for those of you not mentioned above….Thank you for joining our meeting! The room was full of energy and was a great kickoff to the New Year!
Upcoming Events
Our Next Virtual Meeting - Thursday, January 16th at 7:15pm
Sandra Centorino will be sharing the meeting link, or you can find it at our Eagle Toastmasters home page.
Our next meeting - Monday, January 20th.
There are many open roles…Please sign up for something!
Pathways Seminar - Monday, March 30th
Stay tuned for more details!
Christine Austin
Eagle Toastmaster President
