**8 September 2000**

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**BNL Toastmasters, Club 8069, District 46**

**Meetings are held the 1^st^ and 3^rd^ Tuesday at 5:30 PM and the 4^th^
Tuesday at 12:05**

**Biology Building 463, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
11973**

### 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 communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.

## [Upcoming Events]{.underline}

Tue, Sept 19, 2000 Club Meeting, 5:30 Theme: Food Room 160, Bldg 463

Tue, Sept 26, 2000 Club Meeting, 12:05 Theme: Retirement Room 154, Bldg
463

Tue, Oct 3, 2000 Club Meeting, 5:30 Theme: The Olympics Room 160, Bldg
463

### Officers

### 2000-2001 

**President:**

Ronnie Evans

**VP Education:**

Nancy Manning

**VP Membership:**

Frank MacKay

**VP Public Relations:**

Nand Narain

**Secretary:**

Amy Halsted

**Treasurer:**

Claire Heil

**Sergeant at Arms:**

Beth Lin

**Newsletter Editors:**

Amy Halsted

### Beth Lin

Nancy Manning

**September 5 Meeting**

The September 5 meeting was the annual humorous speech and table topics
contest. Contest chair was Beth Lin; Chief Judge, Nancy Manning; judges:
Ronnie Evans, and our guests from Munich, Germany: Christopher and
Denise Magyar. Timer was Patty Ludlam, Margaret Conover was Ballot
Counter and Margaret Foster interviewed contestants. Welcome to new
member Margaret Conover! Christine Brakel attended as a visitor. Chris
and Denise are an American couple who live and work in Germany, are long
term Toastmasters, and belong to a number of TM clubs. Harry Aneziris,
member of the Suffolk/Stonybrook TM club, also visited.

Pat Astre and Amy Halsted were contestants in the humorous speech
contest. Amy\'s speech was titled \"Outhouses and Those Who Love Them.\"
Her father had renovated an outhouse and as a result she learned that a
lot of people care about outhouses and outhouse lore. Pat\'s talk was
titled \"We Have a Long Way to Go.\" His subject was the crazy warnings
we see on everyday products, warning us against doing things with them
that noone in his or her right mind would ever do.

After the contest speeches, Kim Pellechi gave a speech about her
family\'s recent trip to Hershey Park. We really enjoyed her
descriptions of the different roller coasters she rode on. Her gestures
and body language enriched her speech and made it funny too. The table
topics contest followed, with Pat, Amy and Kim as contestants. After the
ballots were tallied, Contest Chair Beth announced that Pat Astre had
won both contests. Congratulations Pat! He\'ll go on to compete at the
area level. Good luck and nice work!

Ronnie collected dues when the meeting adjourned, and then Harry
entertained us with a practice run of his entry into the Stonybrook TM
humorous speech contest. There was a lot going on at this busy, fun and
exciting meeting.

**Do the Dues:** For those who haven\'t done it yet, it\'s time to pay
dues. Bring a check for \$25.50 (or \$51.00 for a full year\--see below)
made out to *BNL Toastmasters* to the next meeting or mail to Claire
Heil, P.O. Box 431, Ridge, NY, 11961. Toastmasters International (TMI)
requires dues payment in six month increments, and timely submission of
dues payment twice each year is one of the goals the club sets for
itself. To relieve the Treasurer of the burden of complete dues
collection twice each year we will experiment with accepting membership
dues payment annually, at \$51.00 instead of twice a year at \$25.50.
Note that refunds will not be possible except under unusual
circumstances.

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BNL Toastmasters Regular Meeting Schedule

  ----------------- ----------------- ---------------- -------------------
  **Date**          **September 19**  **September 26** **October 3**

  **Theme**         Food              Retirement       The Olympics

  **TMOD**          Amy               Nancy            Linda

  **Joke**                                             

  **Word**                                             

  **Timer**                                            

  **Ah counter**    Pat                                

  **Grammarian**                                       

  **Table Topics**                                     

  **Speech #1**     Beth              Kim              

  **#2**            Pat                                Nancy

  **#3**            Ronnie                             

  **#4**            Patty                              

  **#5**            Kim                                

  **General Eval.**                                    

  **Evaluator #1**                                     

  **#2**                                               

  **#3**            Beth                               

  **#4**                                               

  **#5**                                               

  **Quiz Master**   Margaret C.                        

  **Educational                                        
  Talk**                                               

  **Absent**        Margaret F.       Pat              
  ----------------- ----------------- ---------------- -------------------

*Sign up for roles at the coming meetings! Contact
[Nancy](mailto:nmanning@bnl.gov), VPE.* Check the drafted Web pages at
<http://avenger.bio.bnl.gov/~oeder/bnltm.html> and submit your comments
and suggestions.

Congratulations to all who participated in the Club Speech Contests --
you are all winners! Thank you to all who worked to make the evening a
success. We had a full house, with no less than 5 visitors. Good luck to
Pat as he goes on to represent us at the Area Contest.

Members\' Progress Report

  -------------------- ----------------- --------------------------------
  **Member**           **Speeches        **Achievements**
                       completed**       

  Pat A.               3                 

  Susan C.             5                 

  Margaret C.                            

  Ronnie E.            9                 ATM-G, CL, 4 CTMs

  Margaret F.                            DTM

  Linda G.                               CTM

  Amy H.               6                 

  Claire H.            4                 

  Beth L.                                ATM-G, CL, 5 CTMs

  Patty L.             2                 

  Frank M.             9                 CTM

  Nancy M.             1                 ATM-B, CL

  Nand N.                                ATM-S

  Kimberly P.          4                 

  Betsy S.             5                 

  Becky S.             7                 

  Steve S.             3                 

  Eric S.              5                 
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