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| Our Club
Honoured in
Atlanta |
ROSEMARY BRKOPAC, last year's VP Public Relations and Editor
of "Voice of the Valley", has just returned from the Toastmasters
International Convention in Atlanta. While there she
received our Top Ten Newsletter Award from
GAVIN BLAKEY, 2002-03 President of Toastmasters International, in
front of hundreds of people at the Hall of Fame ceremony (pictured
here).
As
well, we have just learned of another honour for Rosemary and
Mississauga Valley Toastmasters. "Voice of the Valley" has been
announced as the winner of the 2002-03 District 60 Bulletin
of the Year Award. Sort of makes sense that one of the top
ten newsletters in the world be recognized as the best in the
District. This award will be presented to Rosemary at the upcoming
Fall Conference in Huntsville.
Once again,
congratulations Rosemary ! ! ! Mississauga Valley Toastmasters
is proud of your accomplishments!
Fellow Toastmasters, we are moving
towards September and vacations will be over, so now we need to set
our personal goals for the coming year and work towards them.
Evelin and I will be contacting you to find out what you are
planning on for the year, and how we as an executive and as a club
can help you reach your goals. We will all be happy to help
you in any way we can!
This month we saw YICHAO
CHEN attain her CTM. She worked very hard to finish this
goal before moving to Houston, Texas on August 15. Our first CTM for
the year, and this is one of the points we need for the
Distinguished Club status.
In a few weeks, we will be having
our Humourous Speech Contest and Table Topics Contest --
these are fun contests to be in -- if you would like to be a
participant, please let us know as soon as possible. I'd love
to see at least 6 contestants! I have heard a lot of humour
from many people during our table topics--you all have the potential
to do a humourous speech!
Before you know it, it will be
September, and we ask that everyone pay their
annual dues before
the last meeting in September, as they must be submitted
to
Toastmasters International on time. It too
counts towards our Distinguished Club status.
I am
working with Sheridan Park Toastmasters to try to have some
interaction with them by way of debate and exchange of
speakers. I did a speech there on August 13, and it is a good
way to prepare yourself for a speech contest, as others see you
differently than the members of your home club who are used to you
and "know" what to expect. It is a good learning
experience. I have a member of another club who has expressed
a desire to speak at our club as well.
Our Executive meets on
August 27, and by then we will have firm plans in place for the
coming year!
Carol Crouse, President - "Believe and Achieve"
Club Executive Meeting (for
officers) - August 27, 2003 - Carol
Crouse's place
Area 22 Council Meeting (for the
President, VP Education & VP Membership) - September 14,
2003
Club Humourous Speech and Table
Topics Contests - September 23, 2003
Area Governor Visit of Mississauga
Valley Club - September 30, 2003 (subject to
change)
Area 22 Humourous
Speech and Table Topics Contests (for Club winners) -
October 4, 2003 - time and location
TBD
Division P Humourous Speech and Table Topics
Contests (for Area winners) -
TBD
District 60 Humourous Speech and Table Topics Contests
(for Division winners) will be held during the Fall
Conference in Huntsville on the weekend of Oct. 31 to
Nov. 2, 2003.
Club Christmas Party - at Carol
Crouse's place, December 16, 2003 (more details to
follow in a later issue)
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| Club
Progress in Distinguished Club
Program |
- Two CTMs
(one so far - Yichao
Chen)
- Two More CTMs
- One ATM Bronze, Silver or Gold
- One More ATM Bronze, Silver or Gold
- One CL, AL or DTM
- One More CL, AL or DTM
- Four New Members
- Four More New Members
- Minimum 4 Officers Trained in Summer and
Minimum 4 Officers Trained in Winter
- One Semi-Annual Dues Report Submitted on Time and One
Club Officer List Submitted on Time
and End the Year with 20 members or Net Growth of 5
Members.
The Distinguished Club Program is Toastmasters International's
way of measuring and rewarding excellence in its clubs. We will be
showing our progress every month as above. As a partial goal is
reached, that line will be highlighted; when the goal is
accomplished then it will hightlighted in red. Awards will be given
based on results as of June 30, 2004.
July 29:
Best Speaker -
ROBERT POPE
Best Evaluator - ERIC MATTO
Best Table Topics -
ROBERT POPE
August 5:
Best
Speaker - TAM DANG
Best Evaluator - PHIL MATHEW
Best Table
Topics - ROBERT POPE
August 12:
Best
Speaker - FERNANDO PEREZ
Best Evaluator - ROSEMARY
BRKOPAC
Best Table Topics - EVELIN DEMELLO
August 19:
Best
Speaker - FERNANDO PEREZ
Best Evaluator - tie, BRIAN DAVIES &
MIKE GLATZ
Best Table Topics - MIRKO
MANOJLOVIC
Club Treasurer BRIAN DAVIES wants to
remind everyone that it's that time of the year again, time to
collect dues. Please make your cheques out to
"Mississauga Valley Toastmasters". Annual dues are $155 and cover
the period from October 1, 2003 through to September 30, 2004. Brian
advises that he will also accept half year dues of $77.50 which will
cover up to March 31, 2004 but that means that he'll be collecting
the second installment from you in March of next year. Please bring
your cheque to a club meeting before the end of
September.
YICHAO CHEN has completed the 10
speeches of the Basic Communication & Leadership manual and has
earned her Competent Toastmaster (CTM) designation. Congratulations
Yichao! As you read last month, Yichao has moved to Houston to
attend school. She finished her last 2 speeches in front of a
Toastmasters audience at JOE VANDERKOOI's backyard on a Sunday
morning following a hike!
Our Club was well-represented at
the 2003 Toastmasters International Convention which was held last
weekend. PHIL TAYLOR, ROSEMARY BRKOPAC and ERIC
MATTO were present for all the excitement in Atlanta, Georgia.
We'll have some impressions of the Atlanta Convention from them
in next month's newsletter as well as some
pictures.
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| Beyond
the Club - Around the Area, Division,
District |
Our Area 22 Governor LORI-ANN
JAKEL has announced that the first Area Council meeting of the
year will be held on Sunday, September 14 at 10:00am, at a location
to be determined. The Area 22 Council consists of each President, VP
Education, and VP Membership from Clubs within the
Area.
Lori-Ann also wants to remind us that
the Area 22 Humourous Speech and Table Topics Contests will be held
on Saturday October 4. At this point we have no further
details.
The Division P Humourous Speech and
Table Topics Contests is expected to be held sometime in the
middle of October. We'll let you know more about this as soon
as we know more.
CLUB:
President - CAROL
CROUSE
VP Education - EVELIN DEMELLO
VP Membership
- WINSTON ALLEN
VP Public Relations - ERIC
MATTO
Secretary - MEG MOCHIZUKI
Treasurer
- BRIAN DAVIES
Sergeant at Arms - PETER
MACKLE
Immediate Past President - WHITNEY
RODRICKS
DISTRICT:
Area 22 Governor
- LORI-ANN JAKEL
Division "P"
Governor - ROSELYN BROWN
District 60
Governor - JEAN MCALLISTER
Mississauga
Valley Toastmasters Club is a member club of Toastmasters
International, the world's largest non-profit organization devoted
to improving communication skills.
We meet every Tuesday evening from
7:30pm-9:30pm in one of the 2nd floor committee
rooms at Mississauga City Hall, 300 City Centre Dr. in
Mississauga, Ontario. Membership in the club is open to anyone 18
years of age or over. Members may join at any time of the year, and
guests are always welcome. Club dues are $155 per year, plus a
one-time new member fee of $35.
The mission of a Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually
supportive and positive learning environment in which every member
has the opportunity to develop and practice communication and
leadership skills which in turn foster self-confidence and personal
growth.
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"Voice of the Valley" is produced
monthly, sometime in the second half of the month. The Editor
is:
ERIC MATTO, Vice President Public Relations
Email:
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Phone:
905-238-5360
The Publisher is:
CAROL CROUSE,
President
Email: coddie@sympatico.ca
Phone:
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