Fellow Toastmasters

There are a few roles still available for our next Toastmaster’s meeting on Wednesday May 2nd.   Please use the link below to signup for a role.

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Fellow Toastmasters

There are a few roles left for the November 2nd meeting.   Please use the link below to signup for a role.   (Please note we are returning to the old agenda signup for the November and December meetings)  In January there will be a new and improved signup method.

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Also  it is time to mark your calendar for our Annual Christmas/Holiday Party on December 7th.   It will be located at Chili’s in Langhorne again in the Sun Room.   Everyone will be participating in the Pick a Gift table topics,   Christmas/Holiday Trivial and of course entertainment and a lot of fun and fellowship.     Please signup for the party using the online agenda.   Guests and friends are welcome to attend.    More Details to follow

 We will be holding our Annual Humorous Speech and Table Topic Contests at the Wednesday September 7th meeting.   We already have numerous members signed up for each of these contest,  but the more the merrier, Everyone is welcome to participate. Use the link below to signup

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Meg Fosco will be serving as our Chief Judge and Deborah Darbee the Contest Chair. If you would like to volunteer to help with the contests or have any questions, please let Meg or Deborah know.

This will also be an open house meeting to recruit additional members,  please invite your friends to  join us.

Please note during the September meeting all of the roles will be contest related.

Lastly, dues for next term (starting October 1),  will be collected.   Details to follow

 

　

Attended by:  Deborah Darbee, President; David Shlegle, VP of Education; Regina Litman, VP of Membership; Jean Ships, VP of Public Relations; Norm Logan, Sergeant at Arms;

Richard Falconer, Meg Fosco and Division F Governor, Thaine Shetter.

 

Special guest , Gbenga  attended and participated as our word master and in Table Topics

Many thanks to Norm Logan, SAA, whose one liners always start the meeting off with a chuckle.

President Deborah Darbee opened the business meeting by reviewing the Club’s goals for President’s Distinguished and asking for member commitments to help achieve

those goals.  Regina Litman committed to completing a CL and possibly and ALS.  Jean Shipos agreed to complete a CC.  Deborah also reminded everyone to bring

their Competent Leader books to every meeting in order to be awarded credits for meeting participation.

The Club Contest will be on Wednesday, September 7.  Members interested in competing should contact Deborah Darbee or Dave Shlegle.

The Toastmaster was Richard Falconer.  Deborah Darbee took on multiple roles as timer, grammarian and ah counter.

Norm Logan conducted table topics.  Norm asked members to test their knowledge of history.  Each person reached into Norm’s paper goody bag and

pulled out a name written in history.  The following list shows the table topic speaker and the historic reference about which he/she was to speak.

Toastmaster	Historic Name
Dave	Babe Ruth
Meg	Arnold Schwarzenegger
Richard	Bill Clinton
Regina	Thomas Edison
Guest	George Washington
Thaine	Sam Mudd
Debra	Joe Lewis

David gave speech #9 from the Advanced “Speeches by Management” manual. His speech, “I Hope I Die Before I Get Old”, was a unique

approach to our country’s Social Security challenges.  Dave’s speech was evaluated by Regina Litman.

Thaine Shetter completed project #6, Vocal Variety, from the CC manual.  His speech, “You Want Me to Do What?” was a humorous

Glimpse at a unique sky-diving experience.  Meg Fosco evaluated Thaine’s speech.

Regina Litman stepped in at the last minute to deliver her humorous speech, “Strawbidges Forever”, a tongue in cheek recollection of

every ting Philly, yo, yo, yo.   Jean Shipos evaluated Regina’s speech.

Richard took on double duty as the General Evaluator and called for evaluations and other reports.

The meeting closed with the “Listen Up!” awards as conducted by Dave.

The next meeting, Open House, and Club Contest will be on September 7.

We will be holding club officers elections at the July meeting.   If you can not attend this meeting,  you will be able to vote via email.    The candidates are listed below,  but it is not to late to join the race.    If you are interested in being a club officers for any of the roles,  please let Cathy or Dave know.
President:   Reginia Litman
VP of Education
VP of Membership

VP of Public Relations:   Jean Shipos
Treasurer

Secretary:  Debbie McKee

SAA:    Norm Logan

There are plenty of role available for our May 4th meeting.   Please sign up today.

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Meeting Report
Washington Crossing Club #1100
June 1, 2011

Attendees: Cathy Adams, VP of Education; Regina Litman; Norm Logan, SAA;
Pat Lehnert, VP of Membership; Herb Rheinstrom; Dave Shlegle, President;
Jean Shipos, Secretary.

Sergeant at Arms Norm Logan brought the meeting to order and opened with a
great joke!

President Dave Shlegle announced that recruits are still needed to fill the
officer roles. Volunteers are running for the roles of SAA, Secretary and
VP of Public Relations. All other roles are still open. Final nominations
and voting will be at the July 6 meeting. If you do not attend, you run
the risk of being put on the officer slate!!

Open roles are:

President (Regina Litman asked to be put on the slate.)
VP of Education
VP of Membership
Treasurer

Pat Lehnert was the Toastmaster. She welcomed everyone and expressed the
wish that everyone had a great Memorial Day week-end.

Regina Litman introduced the word of the day: scuttle.
Cathy Adams was the only person to use the word.

Table Topics were conducted by Cathy Adams. Each member had a chance to
respond to a quote in the 1 to 2 minutes allotted time, as follows:

Thomas Jefferson: “Dreams of the future are better than the history
of the past.” Dave Shlegle
Arthur Miller: “You work a lifetime to pay off a house that you
finally own and there’s no one living in it.” Norm Logan
John F Kennedy: “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is
shining.” Pat Lehnert
J. B. Priestley: “The more elaborate our means of communication, the
less we communicate.” Regina Litman
Rudyard Kipling: “he travels fastest who travels alone.” Herb
Rheinstrom
Anonymous: “Small things contribute to perfection but perfection is
not a small thing.” Jean Shipos

There were two speakers:

Norm Logan: “The Nurse’s First Job at a Dysfunctional
Institution” (Timing: 8:40)
Evaluator: Regina Litman
Dave Shlegle: “A Time Management Rule” (Timing: 6:35)
Evaluator: Cathy Adams

Norm’s speech took us through the trials and tribulations of his
grand-daughter’s first nursing position under horrible circumstances. (Not
clear what book he was working with.)

Dave instructed us in David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”, a time
management plan that advocates accomplishing your two minute tasks first.
His speech was interactive and informative. (CC Manual: Persuade with
Power)

General Evaluator was Jean Shipos. Cathy Adams was timer. Herb was
grammarian/ah counter.
Round robin evaluations were conducted to help the speakers improve their
communication and delivery skills.
Norm was recognized for stretching his limits and tackling an emotional,
serious topic.
Dave was recognized for a strong opening, audience interaction, and a novel
message.

Dave’s “Listen Up” section was a great hit at the end of the meeting!
(The peanut M&Ms were greatly appreciated.) Trivia question: What other
husbands did Marilyn Monroe have besides Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio?

Herb asked the floor to please work with him in his next presentation from
an advanced manual, Team Sales.
Dave and Regina volunteered to support Herb with the project.

Cathy, Jean and Pat will be on vacation for the next meeting.

The next meeting is Wednesday, July 5, 2011.

It is time to recommit to our Toastmasters goals.   Time for the members to step up and take a club officer’s role for next Toastmaster’s Year begining July 1st.     The current officers has been in their current roles for the past year and half.   Now it is time for others members to take on these leaderships roles and to move the club forward.    If you are interested in being an officer next term,  please contact Cathy Adams or myself.     Without leadership our will fail.    Help Out today.

There are plenty of role available for our June 1st meeting.   Please sign up today.

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Please keep in mind these Important Dates

May 13 and 15:  Toastmaster’s Spring Conference 

WHERE: Inn at Chester Springs, Exton, PA.   www.tmdistrict38.org

It is time to recommit to our Toastmasters goals.

There are plenty of role available for our May 4th meeting.   Please sign up today.

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Please keep in mind these Important Dates

Saturday April 16, Division F International Speech and Evalation Contest.  Please come out and support our own Jean Shipos in the Evaluation contest

 April 16, 2011 , 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=1080 Edgewood Road, Yardley, PA 19067

 

May 13 and 15:  Toastmaster’s Spring Conference 

WHERE: Inn at Chester Springs, Exton, PA.   www.tmdistrict38.org

 

Contest Registration starts at 10:00 AM, contest begins at 10:30 AM.

Light Breakfast and Drinks will be served.

 

Location:  Yardley-Makefield Branch Library

 

1080 Edgewood Road  Yardely PA 19067-1648

 

URL:

The Washington Crossing Toastmasters Club enjoyed an exciting meeting on Wednesday, April 6, thanks to the presence of at least
20 guests from Bucks County Community College. They energized the meeting. President Dave Shlegle opened the meeting
by acknowledging the guests and having each person say their name and reason for attending.

Deborah Darbee was Toastmaster; the theme was, “Renewal.”
Patty Handwerk was Wordmaster; the word of the day was, “neophyte.”

Participating in Table Topics were: Norm Logan, Patty Handwerk, Jean Shipos, and two of the BCCC guests, Linda and Vinnie.
Regina Litman was Table Topic master and she focused her questions on the meaning of renewal, the meaning of
Toastmasters, and for the benefit of Vinnie, what kind of cell phone she should purchase now.

Two high level speeches were delivered by members Meg Fosco and President Dave Shlegle.

Meg’s speech, “There Can Be Only One”, met the objectives of Speech #5 in the Competent Communicatiors’ Manual.
Everyone was shocked to learn Meg’s secret obsession with the Highlanders! Actually, the speech was fun and
high energy and Meg used every part of her body along with interesting props to surprise her audience.

Dave’s speech, “I Killed Half My Staff Again”, followed up on his original, “I Killed My Staff Speech”, by weaving
a story about how he killed his staff in his fire-walking seminar business. Dave was speaking from Speech #2,
the advanced Story Telling Manual.

Patty Handwerk also served as General Evaluator. Debbie McKee evalauted Meg and Jean Shipos evaluated Dave. After
the routine round robin evaluation method, Pat Lehnert gave the Timer’s Report; Jean gave the Grammarian/Ah Counter reports.

The meeting closed with comments from the guests who all enjoyed their first Toastmasters meeting and
getting those extra credits.

The next meeting is on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.

 Our March 2nd Toastmaster’s Meeting was a great success.

 Our VP of Education, Cathy Adams served as Toastmaster

 for the night,  she did a wonderful job not only running

 the meeting but also reminding us that spring is in the air

  and that countless opportunities awaits us in our lives.

We had two guests at this meeting. The first was Jessica.

She was a Toastmaster at Parorama Toastmasters for a short time,

until she relocated to the Yardley area, and is in the process

of looking for a new club.  Jessica served as our grammarian/ah

counter for the meeting, she kept us in line with her accurate

   and helpful comments.

Our second guest was Matt. Matt decided to checkout Toastmasters,when he
saw a Toastmaster reference in one of his text books. Matt helped us out
by being the Word Master of the Day (earwig: to annoy or attempt to
influence by private talk , also small bugs that go into your ear). Of
course, we spend the rest of the meeting “earwigging”, the first
definition)

Jessica and Matt are welcome to visit our club again during our April
meeting, and our club would be trilled to have them join our club.

Debbie McKee was the Table Topic master and present us with spring related
topics, both our guest participated fully.

We had three speakers during this meeting, Norm, Jean and Patty.

Norm and Jean speeches revolved around “Christmas Miracles”, and that
some miracles are different from others. Patty rehearsed her Who’s the
Boss speech, in preparation for an upcoming area contest appearance.

In preparation for their area contest appearances, both Norm and Patty
received very pointed and helpful feedback back from all of the club
members and even our two guest provided some very insightful suggestions on
improving the speeches.

Also helping out with the meeting by serving as Evaluators was Deborah
Darbee, Debbe McKee and Reginia Litman. It was an wonderful meeting.

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Fast Forward two and half days. to March 5th: The Area 9F International
speech and Evaluation contest.

We had three Washington Crossing members in this battle of the best, Norm
Logan (Speech Contest), Jean Shipos (Evaluation Contest for Washington
Crossing) and Reginia Litman (Evaluation Contest for Doylestown).

Norm reworked his entire speech from the feedback he received by our club
members and guest at the last meeting. Norm really appreciate all of the
help our club gave him in preparing for the contest. His presentation was
nearly flawless, but fell just short of winning in a razor close contest.
Norm Logan came in second place. Glenn Laveson from Lower Bucks won the
Area International speech contest and will represent our area at the
Division F contest.

In the Evaluation contest our very own Jean Shipos shined during the
contest and took first place. Reginia gave an outstanding performance at
the evaluation contest, and was truly a worthy competitor. Please can
out and support our winners at the Division F contest on April 16 at the
Yardley-Makefield Library (it is about two miles from our meeting room)

Congratulation to all of our winners and competitors in this year’s
contest.

There are several key roles still available for this meeting,  Please  Sign up for a Role Today

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Please make it a point to signup for a role at this meeting or next meeting.

Our International Speech and Evaluation contest was held at this meeting.   Norm Logan was selected to represent the Washington Crossing club at the Area 9F International Speech contest.   

  The Evaluation contest was held with four contestants,  Norm, Pat, Donna and Jean.    The model speaker was David Shlegle,  who shared with us a love story (kinda of).   Dave received plenty of feedback from the evaluations contestants.     When the votes was counted and recounted,    Jean Shipos came out on top, winning the Evaluation  contest with Donna Roberts coming in a close second.     Jean will be representing our club at the Area 9F Evaluation contest.

Cathy served as Contest Chair,  Debbie D. as Chief Judge,   Paula as SAA and Ballot counter and Reginia server as the contest timer.

Everyone did a wonderful job and I expect everyone to support our winners at the area contests.

Congratulation to this year’s winners  Norm Logan (International Speech) and Jean Shipos (Evaluation)

 Our next meeting is on Wednesday February 2^nd ,  this will be our annual International Speech and Evaluator contest.   I strongly encouraged everyone who is eligible to participate in these contest to sign up today.

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Cathy Adams will be running this contest, so if you have any questions or would like to help out with this contest pleasse let Cathy know