Rich and I are at the District 27 conference today where Rich is representing our club and Division D in the evaluation contest. Rich delivered a masterful evaluation speech, but was disqualified due to time. He ran over by 32 seconds, 2 seconds over the variance allowed.
Rich, we’re proud of your well deserved accomplishment of [...]

Should you strive to banish grammatical errors from your voice track, or use them for emphasis and drama?

Though the “how do you do that” theme from this month wasn’t overtly mentioned, everyone learned something in this meeting that they could take away with them.

In honor of April Fool’s Day, our TOTD Diana Crandall announced that our meeting would be a “backwards meeting”.

There is no question that everyone who attended today’s meeting found it valuable (even though there was dissent among the ranks about whether Joe deserved to be tarred and feathered or not!).

The Area contest is being held next Tuesday, March 24, and will begin with socializing (and pizza!) from 5:30 to 6pm.

I’m asking for your help in achieving the Distinguished Club status for this Toastmasters year. If at all possible, please bring a check to us during next week’s meeting so that we are able to have all dues into Toastmasters International by April 1.

Special thanks to Foster who brought a singing bowl from his recent travels and literally set the note for our dynamic meeting!