Grand Newsletter
Issued: August 12, 2011
President’s Message
We are happy that our first longtime no see member, Yolanda, came home in last meeting. We hope that there are more and more those old Granders would like to visit Grand and meet those lovely members.
We are also glad to welcome May Huang to be our new member.
We will hold a welcoming party and orientation training for the new members, as well as those who would like to know more details about how to take any assignment in Toastmasters club meeting.
By Gina Cheng, ACB
News & Event(s):
- Arlen Chen is going to make a special speech on September 1. She wants to share with us her happy honeymoon in UK. You don’t want to miss it.
- Over 30 toastmasters and their family members joined Joe & Erin’s wedding on August 6. It was warm and touching, exciting and fun. See photos: Joe & Erin's wedding photos
Club Officer Announcement:
It is time to pay your membership due now.
Please bring it to club meeting and hand it to Jimmy Chang this week. You can also remit to Erin Ke’s bank account.
TI headquarters announced that the membership due will be increased this year; we will adjust our membership due accordingly. For details, please refer to announcement made on August 4 or contact club officers.
Meeting Minutes (08/04):
From my point of view, time control and preparation are the most essential parts of a toastmaster meeting. I will conclude today’s meeting with these two aspects. Toastmaster of the Evening is the soul of the meeting. Carrie Chiang is doing a great job pull back the time back on track when the meeting delayed to start. TOE set pace for the meeting, meanwhile every member including myself are also responsible for the time control for the meeting.
so let’s help each other to manage our time for the meeting.
As for preparation, I had seen a lot preparation behind tonight’s meeting. TOE Carrie Chiang was trying her best to reach all the assignment takers to assure the completeness of the meeting even when she was in a not so free country. The session masters invite the participants to deliver the jokes and throw out the table topics with the news integrated and these are not something can be done with just a clap. Yes, I am talking about joke session
master Tina and table topic master Mask. 3 prepared speech speakers, Helen, Brian and Jimmy, are all prepared to perform their speeches with excellent content even with visual aid. And the entire venue’s décor is complete before the meeting started and with fresh fruit served as refreshment. With all these, a fascinated meeting presented to us. It is pity that we are not sharing this meeting to more people, so next time invite more guests to the club and spread our great speeches out for other.
BTW, our OGS, may also known as “black dog brother”, Billy has something changed. Except Billy and Helen, if you are the first one respond me the change, a special gift is waiting for you. :D
By Yvan Chu, CC
Meeting photos: August 4 meeting photos
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