Monday 8/6/07

It's another great day to be a Toastmaster.

Last night's meeting was another rousing success. Tom, Janet and Darleen (our guests from last week) all returned and "brought their checkbooks" and filled out their membership applications. Congratulations and Welcome to the Amigo Toastmasters club.

Mr John Dunham was back after being out of town for work for a couple of weeks and he performed admirably as our Toastmaster.

Lori was our Table Topics Master for the evening and provided an interesting twist with her "Truth or Dare" version of Table Topics.

Renewal time is coming up soon and we would like to see everyone renew in a timely manner, so you can expect a call from Lori or I.

The district conference is coming up in November in Albuquerque. More info to come or visit the District 23 website.

Lori and I attended the TLI training last week and were able to come away with some good ideas to help out the club. In addition to her duties as Secretary/Traeasurer Lori has agreed to help out as the VP Public Relations. She is contacting the powers that be at UTEP and EPCC to get us some ad time on their closed circuit public service TV system.

We encourage everyone to bring a friend to the meeting. In order to acheive our goal of becoming a Distinguished Club, we must meet membership criteria of 20 members or a net gain of 5 members. Our current membership is 15 plus our 4 new members, so right now we need everyone to renew and we still need one new member.

There is a membership contest going on right now and we have accomplished 4 new members for the month of August, so we will receive a $25 gift certificate for use at the Toastmasters store. Excellent.

Here's a link to an interesting video. Shift Happens

Thank you to everyone for your help and support and we look forward to seeing you next week.

Rick