Mark your calendars!  Our regular (second Friday of the month) event will be held Friday, June 8th…

Join us for a fun meeting and after-dinner speaker Chad Goldwasser!!

Chad has poured his high energy into motivational speaking, publishing and his very successful real estate brokerage in Austin.  Join us to hear our great members, enjoy a unique dinner and venue, and then take away a motivational inspiration! 

This meeting will be held a new-for-us venue:

Corazon at Castle Hill,  1101 West 5th Street  Austin, TX 78703

More details coming soon…:)

Join us May 11, at Marie Calendar’s on 183. 

Our keynoter for the evening will be Amy Samet!!

Join us – The meeting will include the talents of our insightful Austin Tastemasters members.  Then, we’ll be treated with Amy’s skills, wit, and speaking wisdom !!!

Register Now (no cost to let us know you’ll attend).

Next Meeting!!!….

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We advise everyone to register well in advance for our events!!!  (link below)…Join us as we  speak, dine,toast,and enjoy the best Toastmasters menu in town!… here’s the announcement for the March 9 2012 meeting…

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A satisfying combination: the Toastmasters program, dinner served at one of Austin’s best meeting and dining establishments, and this month’s featured keynote, David Brooks!

Our new year starts Feb 10, 2012 at the IHop on S Mopac.  6:30 gathering, 7pm start time. 

After that, we’ll be announcing the upcoming meetings dates and locations – with the planned monthly meeting every 2nd Friday of the month. 

We are cooking up good things for 2012!  We’ll be announcing our line-up of after-dinner keynote speakers soon!  Our meetings will be a new and distinctive Toastmasters program with a TM meeting highlighting some of Austin’s best TM community-and-beyond speakers.  Professionals and champions will provide an after-dinner dessert sure to motivate and inspire our members and guests.  Stay tuned for line-up announcements!!

This week, it’s back to one of Austin’s long-time Toastmasters host restaurants, IHOP on Mopac.  Many clubs and many meetings have convened here over the years because of the great room, good service, good location, and comforting menu.

Join us for another round of Toastmastering – white or wheat,  and applause.

Friday, October 7

Subject:Minutes from last night’s Tastermasters business and regular meetings

Notes from the Tastemaster’s business meeting and regular meeting. 

The meeting began at 7:02 PM at El Mercado North

IN ATTENDANCE:

Officers: Bart Loeser (Pres.), Grace Jennings (VP-Membership), Kenneth Estes (Treas.), Scotty Burch (VP-Mktg), John Rempe (VP-Ed)

Also present: Marc Brewster, Ron Shaeffer (we met the requirement for a quorum)

Guest:  Barbara Kennedy

• 1.     Proposal to nominate club representatives for the Fall Contests:  John Rempe (Humor) & Ken Estes (Table Topics) at the next area contest being Wed, Sept 28^th.  It passed unanimously
• 2.     Proposal to set a permanent location for the 3^rd Thursdayof each month at the IHOP at MoPac and Rollingwood) until further notice.  It passed unanimously
• 3.     Grace addressed the importance in establishing Role Fulfillment for following meetings established well-before those meetings.  The VP-Ed (John) is responsible for that and will pass around list tonight.
• 4.     Scotty suggested that club identify contest alternates in case they are needed (via email)
• 5.     Ken Estes announced the launch of new FreeToastHost software with the new branding. Look for email
• 6.     Ken mentioned that Membership Dues increase to $43.50 – get checks ASAP by end of Sept.
• 7.     Grace thanked Scotty Burch for representing our club and District 55 in Las Vegas at International Championship in August.

The business meeting finished at 7:12 and was followed by our regular meeting

There was one guest:  Barbara Kennedy, who gave the Birthday Toast

He introduced our W-A-G: Grace Jennings who announced the word of the day: Accountability

Time-Keeper: John Rempe

Table Topics Master: Marc Brewster presented questions to 4 respondents:

Toastmaster: Ron Shaeffer introduced the 2 Speakers:

            Speaker 1:  Bart Loeser spoke “Mastering the Obvious” from “Specialty Speeches” manual, Project #1

            Speaker 2: John Rempe spoke on “What I Want To Be” Humorous Speaking” manual, Project #5

General Evaluator: Kenneth Estes introduced the 2 Evaluators

            Evaluator 1:  Scotty Burch

            Evaluator 2:  Barbara Kennedy

Ron gave the award for “Most Enthusiastic” to John Rempe

Scotty Burch won 2 awards for “Best Table Topics” and “Best Evaluator”

Bart Loeser won the award for “Best Speaker”

Committed Roles for Sept 15 (IHOP location) so far: (Bart L, Marc B. Ken E., ScottyB cannot attend)

Toastmaster: Grace J.

Committed Roles for Oct 6 so far: (Bart L. cannot attend)

Toastmaster: ?