June 17th 2008

Hi All,

We had a great meeting yesterday! Since I am pressed for time today as I am going out of town, I just wanted to thank everyone for their participation and congratulate our winners who were Marilyn for Best Speech, Steve B. for Best Evaluator and Holly for Best Table Topics Response.

On another matter, we had a great officer transition meeting last evening hosted very nicely by Ali at his office. We had almost all outgoing and incoming officers present. Thanks to Ali, Steve B., Brian B., Dawn, Shawn, Cindy, Glenda and Marilyn for their time and talents in attending and in their extraordinary interest in the health and well-being of our club. Understandably, Gini and Pat were not able to attend as Gini was sick and Pat was out of town. I would greatly appreciate it if they would please get with Dawn and Ali, respectively, about transitioning their officer roles.

Re TLI, I will be registering Brian B., Shawn, Dawn, Marilyn and Steve B. I just need to know if Pat and Gini can attend. If not, no big deal as we will have 4 with the names I have mentioned, but please let me know today, if possible.

Two other items were discussed at last night’s meeting. The first dealt with reminding the Table Topics Master that the questions should not be directed to people with major roles, such as speakers and the TM.
The second dealt with the fact that evaluators should stick to evaluating only the topic they are assigned. For example, the GE should evaluate the speech evaluators and the meeting overall but not offer his or her own comments re grammatical errors or AH’s, as those items are covered by the GR and the AC.

Maria-please let me know if you will attending TLI so I can tell you if we have room in the van for you. Thanks.

Thanks and have a great week.

Ed McGowan