Hello Fellow Speakers,

We had an eventful and enlightening evening tonight, with 11 members and 1 guest.

Our SAA Keith Schroder welcomed us and helped us pledge our allegiance to the flag.
Our acting president Claudia Brogan welcomed us and then introduced Deborah Hill, our Toastmaster. Deborah was dressed in red, white and blue in honor of Independence Day. She gave us many fun tips about the holiday, and we now know that at least 158 other countries also celebrate their own Independence days throughout the year.
GE: Iris Grimm
GR: Claudia Brogan
Timer: Dave Flach
Camera Person: Kelly Vandever

Our speakers:
Paul Johnson gave a very informative and professional speech called, “Getting What You Deserve.” He gave us tips and examples on how to get what you want without saying “no” or compromising yourself.

Merrilee Morris took us on a fascinating educational journey all the way from her Minnesota roots to where some 20,000 Civil War refugees settled in “Americana”, which is now present day Sao Paulo.  She’s no jingoist, but it is evident Merillee loves her (our) country.

Claudia Brogan lead a very productive discussion about what we should do when we have a low attendance at our meetings. She’s going to send an email summarizing the exciting ideas we came up with.

Many goodies were enjoyed during the 5 minute break.

Our new club business included thanking and dismissing our outgoing officers, and welcoming in our new ones (including a surprise last minute vote-in!). Our new officers are:
President: Claudia Brogan
VP of Education: Iris Grimm
VP of Membership: Vickie Willard
VP of Public Relations: Paul Johnson
Treasurer: Deborah Hill
Secretary: At large (we’re thinking of rotating this job each week)
Sergeant at Arms: Kelly Vandever

Vicki Willard gave us some fantastic news. We have a new place to meet, and have voted to begin meeting there August 1. It’s a very large room with a stage, tables, chairs, parking, storage for our suitcase (!), kitchen, library . . . and it’s FREE. The location is in a senior resident’s building on Peachtree Road, next to St. Phillip’s Cathedral. Happy, happy days. We may consider changing the time to a bit later, if people need a little extra drive time.

We started on time and ended late (because of our lively discussion of club business).

My Best and last,
Deborah Hill
Your Out-Going Secretary

Hello Fellow Speakers,

We had a three enlightening and entertaining speeches tonight, presented to and by our 9 members and 1 guest. Our guest served as SAA. Pat Schmalzreid our president was also our qualified Toastmaster. She ran the meeting smoothly, and filled us with interesting quotes.  Her team consisted of:
GE: Jon Schwartz
GR: Merrilee Morris
Timer: Dave Flach
Camera Person: Kelly Vandever

Our speakers:
Iris gave a very professional reading (so well done, it was difficult to tell it was read) that opened our eyes to the unhealth of the medical industry. We’re losing our good doctors and Iris helped us understand why and how. She also convinced us that MD coaching is the way to go.

Cara Iovino gave her Ice Breaker speech tonight. It actually consisted of enlightening stories about how chiropractic saves lives (including her brother’s). We all loved it so much (and her) that we voted her into the club.

With little cooperation from her projector, Deborah Hill delivered an enthusiastic keynote speech. The speech told us how we can reframe limiting beliefs to recession proof our lives. She also read from her new book: Unlimited Life.

Our break was short and sweet (in a grapey way).

Our meeting started late as we awaited the drop-off of the DVD camera. But, we were able to whiz through and finish on time.

See you next week.

My Best,
Deborah Hill
Secretary

Hello Fellow Speakers,

We had a two entertaining speeches tonight and an insightful and action packed business meeting, with 10 members and 1 guest present.

Our SAA was filled extemporaneously by Deborah Hill who welcomed us and helped us pledge our allegiance to an imaginary flag (the person with all of our stuff, including the flag and camera no-showed). Our stand-in president Paul Johnson greeted us, then introduced Peter Gibson, our Toastmaster. His team consisted of:
GE: Deborah Hill
GR: Claudia Brogan (we all learned from her report tonight)
Timer: Merrilee Morris (creatively without our cards or watch)
Camera Person: None (no camera)

Our speakers:
Vinny was back in full swing tonight. Jon Schwartz entertained us with two short speeches meant for video, entitled, “Vinny Vents.” He vented about bottled water, hotel water, customer service and a few other side subjects.

Paul Johnson became three people tonight, as he interpretively and creatively read from the screenplay, “Diff’rent” by Eugene O’Neill.

Our business meeting was well lead by Paul and was very productive. We voted on three resolutions - two approved and one failed. Bill Hosken will send the official resolutions to us soon. We also discussed the priorities of the club and are actively rethinking what we all want out of the club. Claudia will research the initial charter doctrines and we’ll consider defining our club objectives and structure as we are now and want to be.

Merrilee provided us with some glorious date cake, which went quickly (more quickly than Deb’s brown rice chips).

Our meeting started 4 minutes late and ended a touch late.

See you in two weeks. Remember, no meeting next week. Have a fun Memorial Day!

My Best,
Deborah Hill
Secretary

Hello Fellow Speakers,

We had an exciting fun evening tonight, with 10 members and 3 guests present. One guest was Cara Iovino, back from life and wanting to rejoin our group. Many of you remembered that she was a dynamic speaker and asset to the club. She turned in her application and we’ll vote next week. We need a quorum of 11, so either turn your vote into Claudia, or show up to vote on Dr. Cara.

Our SAA Keith Schroder welcomed us and helped us pledge our allegiance to the flag. Our president Pat Schmalzried greeted us, then introduced Claudia, our Toastmaster. Claudia’s theme was “Fresh Ideas in Springtime.” She gave us three tips throughout the evening to put into our “speaker’s toolbox.” Our cast of characters included:
GE: Deborah Hill
GR: Paul Johnson
Timer: Paul Poodt
Camera Person: Shared by Keith S. and Iris Grimm

Before our speakers presented, Kelly Vandever spoke to us about a membership drive that she’s doing for our club. She’s already spoken with several people who were at the conference, spreading the word and handing out cards. Now she’s handing out lists of clubs and contacts for us. Each of was asked to help by calling and emailing the contacts at the other clubs. We want to be sure to not step on any club toes, so be sure to clarify that we are only soliciting for people to join us as a second club. To further prove that we aren’t poaching from other clubs, don’t contact people from clubs who meet on Mondays or target clubs that are struggling to maintain membership. Contact Kelly for more info.

Our speakers:
Iris Grimm energetically taught us about teaching with energy. She gave a brief parcel of a speech that she’ll give to a group of teachers on how to deal with students, using dog training as an example.

Pat Schmalzreid lead us in three table topics. Our topic speakers were Dr. Cara, Deborah Hill and Merrilee Morris.

Keith Schroder entertained us with his story, called A Dog’s Tale. The dog may right now be telling about how Keith saved his life after he was in an auto accident on Ashford Dunwoody.

We ate merrily during our break.

We started a little late and ended on time.

See you in two weeks. Someone please fill in for me doing minutes next week.

My Best,
Deborah Hill
Secretary

Hello Fellow Speakers,

We had a remarkably fun evening tonight, with 9 members present.

Our SAA Keith Schroeder welcomed us and helped us pledge our allegiance to the flag. Our president Pat Schmalzried greeted us, then introduced Paul Johnson, our Toastmaster. All of our appointees showed, except one speaker. Our cast of characters included:
GE: Rui Li
GR: Pat Schmalzried
Timer: Kelly Vandever
Camera Person: Paul Poodt
Back-up GE: Dave Flach (you had to be there)

Our speakers:

Deb Hill spoke on information from her new book, Unlimited Life, due out in May. She told us how to create our dream life by transmuting our limiting beliefs. She also spoke to us about a common limiting belief and the cure: Living the objective life in the neutral zone.

Keith Schroder entertained us and taught us a fun way to get to know a stranger, in his speech: The Cube. Yes, you too can be characterized by how you visualize your cube on the desert horizon.

To fill in the time, Dave Flach led us in a speakers round-robin. Our job: Tell a story that involves these eight words, places and people: Chile, rain, mudslide, ukulele, Washington monument, tricycle, speedo, and Homer Simpson. Kelly gave us 2 minutes each. Each of the eight speakers continued a story using one of the words from the list. And, what fun we had. We are a VERY clever and funny group. Not to mention great speakers. Fortunately in the end Homer called Waldo (300#, tricycle riding, speedo wearing hero) who saved Paul from the Chilean embassy, pulled the bus out of the mudslide, (did we ever get to see the Wash. Monument?) and got us all safely home.

We ate cheese crackers during our 10 minute, jovial break.

New business: We’re all paid up!!!
Please bring a guest to the next two meetings. Pat is encouraging us to bring ‘em in as we need some new members.

Paul ran an easy going, yet orderly and timely meeting. We started a little late and ended on time.

See you in three weeks. Merrilee will be filling in for me.

My Best,
Deborah Hill
Secretary