From Alaska to Texas

Troy receives his pin from Keith and Linda

After living in Alaska, Oklahoma, and Friona, Texas, Troy Talley (now hailing from nearby Shallowater) recently joined Toasters Toastmasters club here in Lubbock and delivered his Ice Breaker project today. Today's Toastmaster, Linda Jones (right,) and Troy's mentor Keith Waters (middle,) congratulated Troy on his accomplishment and gave him his membership pin.

Welcome to the club, Troy!

Newest Member Linda Gives Her Ice Breaker

Jan d'Orsay presents new member
Linda Jones with a membership pin.

Toasters' newest member, Linda Jones, gave her Ice Breaker speech to the club today and received her membership pin from Sgt. At Arms Jan d'Orsay.

Welcome to the club, Linda!

Amy Zientek Receives Rising Star Award

Amy Zientek

Toasters member Amy Zientek received the Texas Travel Industry Association's Rising Star Award on September 23, 2013, for her leadership and commitment to the Texas Travel industry.

The full story can be found here: http://www.kcbd.com/story/23506503/visit-lubbocks-amy-zientek-receives-acclaimed-award

Amy is the director of sales for Visit Lubbock and has been a member of Toastmasters for 5 years.

Congratulations Amy!

Skippyjon Jones & the Moments of Truth

Uwe returns the stage to Kyle

Member Amy Zeintek did a project from the advanced manual Interpretive Reading and read a children's story that her children love.  It was the tale of Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog.

Area 62 Governor Uwe Beltz attended Toasters Toastmasters Club today and led the group through the Moments of Truth module from the Successful Club series.

A Pin, A Kiss, and a New President

Tracy, Lisa, and Jan

With the first meeting of the new year comes a new club president. Tracy Thomason opened his first Toasters Toastmasters club meeting as president today.   As a bonus, his wife Lisa, who recently joined the club, gave her Ice Breaker speech, "A Toastmaster's Wife," today. Tracy and outgoing President Jan d'Orsay gave her a membership pin when she completed the speech.

Tracy also gave her a kiss.  Jan did not.

Eddie Retires

A Toastmaster for over 20 years and a member of Toasters Toastmasters club here in Lubbock for over half of that, Eddie Payne recently announced that he'd be retiring from his job at X-Fab.  To fulfill his and his wife's plans for the future, Eddie is also retiring from Toasters club.

Toasters threw a party for Eddie today and honored him with an engraved clock.

We'll miss you, Eddie, and we hope you wake up early once in a while and come and visit us!

Jan gives Eddie his gift

It's a clock!

Toasters Toastmasters Club

Tornado Sirens and Raising Twins

Not these twins, though.

While these topics don't necessarily go together (unless you've raised twins and then you might think the siren would come in handy), they were the topic of two informative and entertaining speeches at Toasters Toastmasters Club in Lubbock, TX, today.

Member Gary Johnson received his name badge today for completing his Competent Communicator manual.  We're looking forward to your Advanced Manual speeches, Gary!

Toasters also enjoyed a visit from our incoming Area Governor, Uwe Beltz. While not his official visit, Uwe stopped by to say hello and remind the club about the upcoming Toastmasters Leadership Institute happening on June 21st.  There's more information about that on the Toastmasters In Lubbock website.

Coming soon?

Gary receives his CC badge from Jan