Have Hammer, Will Preside

Newly elected club President Uwe Beltz has put on his tool belt and is prepared to get to work for the coming year.

The club officers for 2011-2012 are:

• President - Uwe Beltz


• VPE - Kyle Word


• VPM - Keith Waters


• VPPR - Amy Zientek


• Secretary/Treasurer - Eddie Payne


• Sgt At Arms - Jan d'Orsay

Hail to the Chief

New club president Keith Waters took the reins today and opened the club meeting. He replaces outgoing president Jan d'Orsay who led the club to its first Distinguished Club status in several years. Hopefully Keith and his rockin' hair-do will be as successful!

A Very Toasty Christmas

If you missed our Christmas party, you missed out on a lot of fun. We had a great white elephant gift exchange. Jan brings the best stuff. Or maybe it's the worst stuff. No, it's definitely both! :)

And Kyle gave a very poignant toast to Michael and his fiancee Hannah.

 

Toasters Compete and Win at Area Contests

Three members of Toasters competed in the Area 62 contests. Jackie competed in the Evaluation contest, Eddie competed in the Humorous Speech contest and Kyle competed in both. Kyle won the Area 62 Humorous Speech contest.

Check out all the contest photos.

Congratulations Michael!

Toasters has a tradition that the club buys a name badge for members when they complete their first Competent Communicator award. We followed that tradition today when Michael was given his name badge for completing his CC. And then Michael followed that by giving his first speech from an advanced manual.

Congratulations on completing your CC, Michael! We look forward to many more of your speeches!

(Photo: Keith presents Michael with his name badge.)

The New Year

The new Toastmasters' year has begun. Coming up we have quite a few events:

• TLI (Toastmasters Leadership Institute ... aka Officers' Training) on August 1st


• The Fall contest season with Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests


• The Fall District 23 Conference in Amarillo

New Members

Congratulations to our newest members, Chase and Tom, for completing their first speeches. The first one is always the hardest.