Veteran Leadership

Attendance 9 (3 Distinguished and 6 Regulars)
Meeting Duration – 12pm-1:00pm
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

This week’s meeting showcased one of our group’s strong points – its veteran leadership. In addition to sporting winners in Toastmaster Int’l competitions, past district/area governors and advanced leaders and communicators, we have long-time members to look to for guidance. We hope that they'll continue to serve as a vital resource on how to perform various functionaries within meetings and improve as leaders. This wealth of knowledge helps provide a “how-to” for new club members and visitors alike and is much appreciated.

Garth Garrett, CTM (member for two and a half years) served as Toastmaster for today’s meeting. As mentioned in last week’s report, his flair, control of the podium and creativity are extraordinary! As referenced in his opening, his modesty regarding his talent (being from the Midwest) only makes his delivery more appealing.

Next up was another club jewel, Pauline Lee, ATMG (pictured left) who honored us with Table Topics. Each member in attendance was asked to choose any magazine that they’d would serve as editor and why.

Here are the choices:

Paul Burke – The Economist, Field and Stream and Mad Magazines
Cynthia Jimerson – Home and Garden
Tony Li – Toastmasters
Gene Hargreaves – Dining and Food (Best Table Topics)

Pauline was very energetic, with a pleasant and engaging manner with animation in vocal variety and body movements. She moved effortlessly around the entire room and stressed the importance of transitioning at the podium from within her dialog. Her transitions and introductions incorporated comments from speakers on both ends of this segment of the program showing awareness as well. We can all improve by using her example!

Joe Simpson (Best Prepared Speech) presented the eight project in the Communications and Leadership program, Get Comfortable with Visual Aids. Entitled, How to Sell the Unknown, it described the creative process in developing a film for an upcoming Agency initiative (TAP).

Bertha Bruner, Vice President of Education, presented project three, Get to the Point, a moving description of domestic violence shelters and what we can do to help. Entitled, Not All fairy Tales Have a Happy Ending, it was very thought-provoking and well done.

The meeting closed with very helpful and constructive evaluations by Vice President of Membership, Gene Hargreaves (Best Evaluator) and Pauline, closing statement by our General Evaluator, Paul Burke and comments by Co-President Falan Guan.

Reminder: Club Dues are due October 1. Contact Gene with any questions you have.

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