This was our first meeting of the new Toastmasters year, and we are all excited to be back.
This year's executive is as follows:
President: Greg Brown
VP Education: Dorothy Wilson
VP Membership: Jayashree Ramaswami
VP Public Relations: Norma Rodenburg
Treasurer: Shazin Mohamed
Secretary: Erik Niemonen
Sergeant@Arms: Julio Hernandez
This week's theme was 'Opportunity' , as the Toastmasters year is full of opportunities for personal development. Dorothy told us how to 'Know The Audience' in the educational session, Julio gave a speech entitled "Sweating Copper". It was a very entertaining story of home handyman adventures. Shazin gave a speech about cell phone etiquette, and Jayashree practiced her sales skills with a great presentation.
Our table topics session was another great success as Shazin had great questions. We were treated to a first ever table topic by our guest Deb, and she did a really good job! We could tell she had spoken in public before.
All in all a great way to start off the year.
