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Soaring
Summer Schedule
June
2008
-- Flying Toastmasters will be meeting on the second and fourth
Thursdays of July and August. We will be reverting back to
weekly meetings in September. Scintillating!
Exciting
Club Officers Training
June
25, 2008
-- MDA will be hosting this Summer's club officers training.
Training starts at 7 p.m. at 13800 Commerce Parkway. Yes, I
know it is a Wednesday night. But there's nothing good on T.V.
anyway. (Non-club-officers are welcome to participate too.)
International
Speech Contest and Speech Evaluation Contest
March
2008 --
Contest season comes but twice a year! The International
Speech Contest and the Speech Evaluation Contest are coming up and
Flying Toastmasters needs contestants. Please contact Irene or
Gladys if you are interested. Note that to be eligible to
compete in the International Speech Contest you must have completed
at least six speeches.
Toastmasters
Week Division E Open House
February
6, 2008 --
Come celebrate Toastmasters Week with the community by attending the
open house on February 6 (Wednesday). The event begins at
6:30pm and ends at 9pm and will be held at WorkSafe BC on 6951
Westminster Highway in Richmond. The event is hosted by
Comp-Talk Toastmasters club but our division governor is making it a
division-wide event. The featured speaker is Dr. Laugh (a.k.a.
David Granirer). Everyone is welcome.
District
21 EXTREME ATTITUDE Membership Contest
January
6, 2008 --
Help Flying Toastmasters qualify for this exciting by joining by
March 31. Clubs with at least five members joining from
January 6 to March 31 will be entered in a draw for $100 for the
club to use toward items in the Toastmasters International store.
Division
E Officer's Training and Our First Officers' Meeting
June
23, 2007 --
Thank you to all officers (and Peter too, who isn't even an officer yet!) for coming to training today. Flying Toastmasters was one of only two clubs in Division E to have all of its officers present. Division E Governor Ilan even honoured our club by asking us to stand! (I would have been pleased if we had been rewarded with the leftover chocolate muffins. My, there was a lot of
food!
Special
reminder for club officers:
Please pick up your officers’ manuals from Irene.
Now
on Summer Schedule
June
6, 2007 --
The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are upon us again. Flying
Toastmasters are flying off to exotic locales and ports of
call. The time has come again for us to implement summer
scheduling. Flying Toastmasters will hold meetings on the
second and fourth weeks of June, July, and August.
Here
are the next meetings: June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26, August 9,
August 23.
Other
clubs you might try visiting when Flying Toastmasters does not meet:
Rich-Del (Thursday),
Dragon
Masters (2nd and 4th Wednesday), Richmond
Toastmasters (Tuesday), enRICHed Speakers (Wednesday), Global
Speakers (Monday), Leading
Edge (1st and 3rd Friday), Comp-Talk
(Wednesday), and Richmond
Achievers (Wednesday).
Exciting
Officer's Training
May
30, 2007 -- As if the Region I conference in Rancho
Cordova weren't exciting enough, here in Richmond we are having a
gathering of local Toastmasters!
Who: you
What: Division E Officer's Training, bring $2-$3
Where: MDA,
13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC
When: June 23, 10am-12pm
Why:
1) Because not everyone can make it to Rancho Cordova, or even knows
where that is.
2) Because the admission fee is much lower.
3) Because Irene is one of the trainers (Secretary table).
4) Because the speakers are usually really good.
5) Because you get to meet other Toastmasters.
6) Because Flying Toastmasters needs 4 club officers to attend to
qualify toward the Distinguished Club Program.
7) Because non-club officers will get to sample a club officer role
in only 2 hours, without any further commitment.
8) Because you will just sleep away your Saturday morning anyway.
Hope to see you there!
P.S. Trivia question of the week: which provinces and states are
included in Region I? (Answer to be revealed on the blog when I find
out myself!)
First
Ever Mock Speech Contest
May
11, 2007 --
Are you as excited as I am? Flying Toastmasters will hold its
first ever mock speech contest next week on May 17. Six days left
and counting. I have just finished printing the judging
ballots, timing sheet, counter sheet, and certificates. Please
come out to this meeting and support our first mock speech
contest. We still need last-minute timers, counters, and
judges (all of which of easy positions). Thank you to Renee
and Peter for their courage in being contestants for the speech
contest.
Semester
is Over
May
8, 2007 --
My semester at UBC is finally over. My it has been a long time since
the last post! Now that I have more time, and have had a
wonderful vacation of 3 days and 7 nights in Waikiki (ha ha ha), I
can get back to industriously updating the website. Hopefully,
I can hand over the website maintenance to someone else soon because
club officer elections are coming and I do not want to be VP Public
Relations again!
That's
right folks. The fiscal year end is coming fast. If you
would like to be a club officer, please send your name in to Irene
soon.
If
you would like your educational award to count toward this year's
DCP contest, please send in your applications to Gladys forthwith.
If
you do not understand the meaning of "forthwith" you
should come to Toastmasters more often.
Club
Public Relations Survey
May
8, 2007 -- Our first survey ever (that I am aware
of)! It went over relatively well, considering that I forced
everyone present several months ago to fill out the survey.
The main conclusion is that word of mouth is the most effective
means of brining in new members. So this website is nice to
have, but overall not that effective, apparently. If you would
like a copy of the survey please come to our meeting so I can give
you my contact information in a secure environment. Or maybe I
should get the "Link" newsletter to publish it...
Another
lesson learned is that surveys are very important for club
executives. The more effort put into filling out surveys, the
more the club will improve.
Toastmasters
Week
February
3-10, 2007
--
What special event will we have this week? Check back to find
out!
Cold
January
18, 2007 -- I
hope that you all have finally warmed up after our meeting this
evening - the room was cool, but we had good spirits and a warm
friendly atmosphere. Congratulations to SK on completing
speech # 2 and Justin for completing # 4. Very interesting and food
for self and thought (toast and global warming!) Thanks to
Renee for once again Chairing the meeting for us. Welcome to
our guests Crystal and Juliani, and Welcome back to Luis - so good
to see you! We hope to have you back with us next week too.
Thank
you Gladys for writing this week's update.
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