Shoes To Fill

Ken said...

I'll try to fill Julie's "shoes" for a step or two.We really enjoyed the table topics by Nancy Oliver and Dyann's presentation and a tasty special speech by Melinda Campbell. I've never seen a 6.5 minute speech produce such delicious results. Dwayne, Charles, and I found fun things to do. Melinda suggested a summer T M program at Wesleyan, too. This week will be our only short meeting May, All summer we should Get our 5:45 to 6:45 time. This Tu, May 4, we want to start promptly at 5:45pm and be finished at 6:30pm at the library .Proposed Tu May 4 Agenda: Toastmaster- Melody, Invocation - Nancy Oliver, Speaker Paula, Hints to learn for May 15? Eval - Phil, Table Topics - Charles, Gen Evaluator - Dwaine.

Please email me or call me of proposed changes. Thanks for an enjoyable meeting, Ken J Dolezal CTM

Come help us celebrate,
Twin boys, Caleb J & Joshua J. Jordan,
Born Monday evening,
soon ? to be new Toastmasters.
Thanks Julie & Michael.
Ken

5:45 Planning Meeting @ Anderson

This evening your attendance is appreciated. We will not have a regularly scheduled educational meeting; rather, we will have a business/planning meeting. The duty schedule, meeting locations/times, membership growth ideas, upcoming events, and other ideas will be discussed. Bring your club questions & comments. Thanks for contributing this evening!

Spring Conference 2010

Announcing
Spring Conference
@Holiday Inn, Downtown Lincoln
May 14-15, 2010

If you haven’t decided yet if you’re going to attend the Spring Conference maybe this will entice you to send in your registration.  This is just the tip of the iceberg of the items planned at this year’s Spring Conference. 

Friday Night

8:30     Keynote Dr. Dilip Abayasekara, Past International President

            "The Toastmaster Spirit: The Wind Beneath Your Wings" 

Saturday Morning

10:00   Dr. Dilip Abayasekara 

            "Three Steps for Enduring Club and District Success"

Banquet - Saturday Evening

6:45     Banquet Keynote, Dr. Dilip Abayasekara

            "Life Lessons Learned At the Lectern"

Be sure to check out http://www.district24toastmasters.com/ for updates....

Today's Agenda

5:30 President: Ken
   -calls the meeting to order, leads the pledge.
   -news, concerns
   -introduces the Toastmaster

5:45 Toastmaster: Ken
   -introduces duties:
 
5:47 Invocation: Ken

5:50 Speakers
     Speaker Two: Charles

5:58 Table Topics: Dwaine

6:10 General Evaluator:
   Calls for reports from:
     -Speaker Two Evaluator: Dwaine
   - Timer:
   -Grammarian: 
   General comments about the meeting, thanks everyone for coming, and returns control to the President.

6:14 President
Thanks any guests for coming, and asks for comments
Reviews next week's positions
Closing Remarks

Remember! Next week is our club contest.

Today's Agenda (starting 5:30)

Agenda for Tuesday, March 2, 2010

5:30 President: Ken
   -calls the meeting to order, leads the pledge.
   -news, concerns
   -introduces the Toastmaster

5:31 Toastmaster: Ken
   -introduces duties:
   -Grammarian: 

5:32 Invocation: Melody

5:35 Speakers
     Speaker One: Pat
     Speaker Two: Dwaine

5:48 Table Topics: Phil

5:55 General Evaluator: Charles
   Calls for reports from:
   -Speaker One Evaluator: Paula
   -Speaker Two Evaluator: 
   - Timer: Charles
   -Grammarian: 
   General comments about the meeting, thanks everyone for coming, and returns control to the President.


5:59 President
Thanks any guests for coming, and asks for comments
Reviews next week's positions
Closing Remarks

Duty Schedule

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*Please note, we will be adding Pat to our schedule.

Today's 5:30-6:00 Agenda

5:30              PRESIDENT: Ken

·        Calls the meeting to order, leads the pledge.

·        News, concerns

·        Introduces the Toastmaster

5:31              TOASTMASTER Paula Introduces for duties:

·        Invocation              Phil

·        Grammarian              Pat 

                 5:35                 SPEAKERS (Introduced by the TM)

·        Speaker  one     Charles

                ·        Speaker two     Ken

  5:50                  GENERAL EVALUATOR   Julie (Introd. by the TM)

   Calls for reports from :

·        Speech Evaluators:

o        For   S1              Dwaine

o        For   S2             Melody

·        Timer -                Julie

·        Grammarian -  Pat

·        Following the reports, makes general comments about the meeting

·        Returns control to the Toastmaster.

TOASTMASTER: Presents Trophies, Comments on the meeting, thanks

everyone for coming and returns control to the president.

5:59              PRESIDENT

·        Thanks any guests for coming, asks for comments

·        Asks for volunteers for the following week’s positions

·        Closing remarks

6:00              MEETING ADJOURNS

Happy Birthday Jean!

We will miss you this evening. Nobody can replace you, but we do always seem to find a way to fill in the gaps.

Meeting Tues. Jan. 19th

At Tomorrow's meeting I, your VP of Education, will hand out a new 2 month duty chart.
This is the last of our old duty schedule chart. (It is so scratched together, we might as well have written it on a napkin!)

Toastmaster - ask Phil
Timer - Charles
Invocation - Ken
Speaker 1- Julie
Speaker 2 - Melody
Table Topics - Dwain
General Evaluator - Charles
Speech Evaluator - Charles or other attendee

Toastmasters Leadership Institute is Sat. Morning!

The Toastmasters Leadership Institute is already paid for by your membership dues. It is Sat. Jan.16th from 8:30 am until 12:00pm at the Southeast Community College Continuing Education Building 301 S. 68th Street Place in Lincoln, NE. I am always pleased by the program offered and motivated to use our Toastmasters program for greater personal growth in leadership and communication. The coffee, juice, muffins, and fresh fruit have been great too.  I will see you there!

Tonight's Meeting

Next Meeting: Tues, Jan. 12th 5:30-6:00 Anderson

Next Meeting: Tues, Jan. 12th 5:30-6:00 at Anderson Library
(Note the time change for this week only)

Duties: Dwaine - Toastmaster; Charles - Invocation; Julie - Speaker #2; Ken - Table Topic Master; Phil - General Evaluator (and if necessary speech evaluator)

Here is our typical meeting format with this weeks time restrictions:
We will begin promptly at 5:30 with a business meeting.
5:35 Our Toastmaster, Dwaine begins the educations portion of the meeting.
5:37 Charles gives an invocation
5:40 The Toastmaster, Dwiane, introduces Melody or Michelle if they wish to speak.
5:41 Speaker #1 if available
5:47 Dwaine introduces Julie to speak
5:48 Julie will be speaker #2.
5:55 Dwaine introduces Ken to give Table Topics
5:58 Phil begins the General Evaluation, and may evaluate speeches
6:00 We return to the President, Ken, who will adjourn

I'll speak to you tonight @ Anderson Library 5:45

"Now, tell us more about your fear of speaking in front of an audience."

December 8th Meeting will be at eSellerate

eSellerate
5901 N. 58th
Lincoln NE 68507-3249

Directions:
Heading East on CORNHUSKER HWY/US-6 E.
Turn LEFT onto N 56TH ST
Turn RIGHT onto FLETCHER AVE
Turn RIGHT onto N 58TH ST.
5901 N 58TH ST is on the RIGHT

Comic Relief

Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home At 4040 A St.

Our meeting for Tues. Dec. 1st is Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home, 4040 A St.
We will meet at about 5:45 to 7 PM with the regular schedule tonight.
Phil Copple will be Toastmaster, Ken Table Topics, Charles, Dwaine, Julie & Jean.
Paula said she'd be Grammarian if she can make it.
Michelle, Dyann, and possibly Shirley can't make it.

We'll meet Next Week Dec 8, at 5901 Fletcher Rd (3 blks E of N56th).
These 2 should help us make good decisions, for any special locations, in future.
TM Thank you for your patience.
Sincerely , Ken

Sucessful Presentations Begin with the Introduction

Michelle~
Thanks for introducing my speech today. It felt great to be so well introduced!
~Julie

Toastmasters.org says introductions help bring smooth transitions to our meeting. As a speaker you can write your own introduction, or leave it to the person introducing you. Either way the info conveyed to the rest of the group should include:

• Speech topic and title
• Manual and project title
• Assignment objectives
• Speaker’s personal objectives
• Delivery time

Try 30-60 seconds in length.

Happy Veteran's Day!

Duty Schedule

Don't Forget that we will be at Anderson Library Nov. 17th!

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