District 64 Fall Conference Luncheon

On Saturday, November 17th, Venio Dictum Toastmasters hosted the luncheon at this year's Fall Conference.  It was held at the Holiday Inn on Portage Avenue, close to the Moray Bridge.

 Janet Adam and Don Eppler championed this project to good success.

Keynote speaker for the lunch was Barbara Bowles.

In the above photo:  President Glenn Laycock, Barbara Bowles, Past President Don Eppler.

The luncheon went well with a strong keynote by Barbara, and the Holiday Inn lived up to its reputation as a good venue.

Area Evaluation and Humour Contest

Last week our club had its Evaluation and Humourist Speech Contests.

• Eric Elford was the winner of the Evaluation contest
• Nicolette L. was the winner of our Humourist contest

Eric and Nicolette advanced to the Area 21 level event, which was held on October 25 at the St. Boniface University.

We had several people on hand to cheer on Nicolette and Eric, including: 

VP of Membership, Ray Larkins 
President, Glenn Laycock
Members Ian S. and Josephine O. 

Although Eric and Nicolette did not advance to the next level, the evening was an enjoyable one that was chalked full of excitement as the competition was of good caliber.  

Opening Game Remarks for 2012-13 Season.

Welcome to the opening pitch of the 2012 – 2013 Season.

With the new Executive of the Venio Dictum Toastmasters Club taking office as of July 1st, I thought it would be a good opportunity to get everyone up to speed on what I am seeing.  But let me introduce your executive team “line up”.

In as our Sergeant of Arms is Tom. Tom is a relatively new member of our club, but is "taking the bull by the horns" and will be making sure our room is all set up, introducing me every meeting and maintaining our club resources.

Our Secretary Alexis took on the occasional role of “Acting Secretary” last year, so she will just walk into her new shoes pretty easily I expect.   Alexis is skilled at being the person in charge of correspondence and doing our Minutes.

Treasurer – Nicolette – will be a new face to many of our members, but she is actually returning from a year of schooling abroad to resume the position she held in the 2010-11 Season. 

The website and public visibility (marketing) falls into the domain of our VP of Public Relations – Andrew Smith.  Andrew will be working very closely with our VP of Membership, Ray Larkins as both these roles support and empower each other

Janet is our VP of Education.  Janet brings with her a wealth of experience with our club and has proven how growing your skills in Toastmasters can improve your life.  Janet and me are confident with the membership we have, that Venio Dictum will return to being a Distinguished Club in the coming year.

As you can see, our line up is strong and  I was filled with pride and anticipation of getting onto the playing surface, to stretch our legs.

I look forward to seeing everyone in September,

Glenn Laycock, President
Venio Dictum Toastmasters Club

Don looks back on his year as President of the club

Don Eppler, President (2011-12)

"This is your Captain speaking"

As we near the port of entry I'm becoming nervous. My voyage is almost over and what a trip it has been.

With your help and dedication during our voyage our good ship Venio Dictum proudly displayed our 'FIVE STAR CLUB FLAG'

    

Many other TM Clubs from far and near at times questioned its meaning. It was our actions that proved to them over and over that we knew our mission and how to get there. That Mission was the benefits you received through 'BETTER LISTENING, THINKING AND SPEAKING WITH RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY'

Rough seas or not our sturdy and steady ship carried us on to reaching the goals we set for ourselves and our Club.

With us finally reaching dock this Saturday June 30th, 2012 and I disembark I'm both happy and sad. Happy because of you who wee such good sailors who continually without much notice came forward and rescued the moment. Your efforts made a potentially poor meeting into one of our best, so thank you. Then I'm sad when I think of us missing opportunities that we as individuals didn't take advantage at the time they affronted us. So my hope now is that we don't miss out on them the next times they arise.

So as your outgoing executive sets foot on land, we salute you our members for making our job easier. We salute our incoming executive as they now step a board our proud Venio Dictum ship and wish them fair weather sailing as they take us on our next journey. We know they will guide us as members to new exciting ports that will challenge us to becoming even better communicators.

With that, BON VOYAGE....my fair mates...  

Don Eppler, President 2011-12

Venio Dictum Toastmasters Club