Dyehard Toastmasters

The Second Annual Open Club Meeting will be Monday, April 5th at from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Gaston County Police Department.

ALL ARE INVITED!!! This is a chance for everyone to learn more about Toastmasters and how it can benefit you. See this flyer for an Agenda and a list of speakers.

The Open Club Meeting is intended to be a collaboration between TM in the PM, the Gastonia Toastmasters, and our own Dye Hard Toastmasters.

We have announced the dates for our 2010 Leadership and Communication Seminar.

The Seminar will begin on Tuesday, January 19th and will run for four weeks – ending on Tuesday, February 9th. The venue has not been finalized, but we hope to hold it at Gaston College – East Campus again this year. The start time will be 7pm.

Click Here to Pre-Register for the Seminar

A quick reminder that they will be no meeting this week (December 1st) due to the traffic issues created by the Belmont Christmas Parade.  We will resume our regular schedule next Tuesday, December 8th.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!

I would like to expiate for not posting a recap out in awhile but your luck ran out. Expiate was word of the day, meaning to “atone for or make amends for” provided by our Mr. Bert Freeman our VPE and Toastmaster of the evening. We had two speeches tonight. Mike gave a speech that was very informative and a subject that is near to his heart, education and making a difference in a young person’s life. He discussed the cost in dollars and in lives of our educational crisis we are experiencing in this country.　 He stated five areas that young people must feel comfortable in to be able to feel successful.　 Mike gave this speech and used “PowerPoint”. This was his first attempt with a “PowerPoint” presentation and he did quite well.

 Our second speaker was Jada. Her speech was the “The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful”. Her speech was timely in this holiday season. Charitable giving, does your donation go where you intended it to go? She gave statistics, and web-sites to see which charities are prudent with your donations and which are not. It was a very logical and well thought-out speech.

Table Topics were provided by Chad. This was excellent. He stated the situation. You are a passenger on an airplane and it is going to crash. There is only one parachute. Plead your case why you should get the parachute. True to form, Chad made a slight modification. The participants drew an envelope and it contained a celebrity who was the passenger on the plane.

 Bill was Dennis Rodman.
Ken was Paris Hilton
Ron was Britney Spears
Emily was Bernie Madcoff.

 It was an extremely funny portion of the meeting, especially Ken Paris describing some of his/her best features. Emily was ah/grammarian and she lived up to her reputation. She can hear an ah/um before you can say it! That’s good from a Yankee, oops. 　”Southernisms” were also discussed; you all know what I mean.

 Finally, our General Evaluator was Charles Hutson who did great. Ron evaluated Mike’s speech. Emily evaluated Jada. Congratulations to Emily and Charles for accepting the challenge of trying a new role!!

 Last, but certainly not least we had a guest attend tonight’s meeting. Mr. John Pierce attended the meeting and expressed an interest in joining our club. WELCOME!!!!!

 WE WILL NOT BE MEETING ON DECEMBER 1^ST BECAUSE OF THE BELMONT CHRISTMAS PARADE AND TRAFFIC PROBLEMS GENERATED BY IT.

 Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our thanks to Jada who created a template for the Toastmaster to use during our meetings. 

You can get it here:  Toastmaster Template