Last night’s AGM was a busy way to wrap up the year with two guests, as well as two visiting toastmasters, Tom and Krystal, who both partook in the meeting as Toastmaster and Table Topic Master respectively.
The first half of the meeting was was concerned with club business - President Michael McGrath transitioned into Immediate Past President with the passing of the chain to President Andrea Jahn - congratulations Andrea! The meeting continued with reports of success through the year both in terms of member numbers (Sharon, VPM), a reminder of the Smedley award, an update on club promotional activities, the website, facebook and meetme (Moira, VPPM) before finishing on the finance health of the club (Kathleen, Treasurer) where discussion was animated around membership fees and the impact of both the dollar exchange and TI rates.
The new committee was established and is as follows:
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President - Andrea Jahn
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Vice President of Education - Sharon O’Neill
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Vice President of Membership - Mary Waslh
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Vice President of Public Relations - Neil Whelan
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Secretary - Anita Murphy
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Treasurer - Kathleen O’Mahony
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Sergeant at Arms - Jerome O’Donovan
Krystal delivered a fresh approach to table topics whereby members selected a picture at random and spoke accordingly - much was made of Neil O’Brien’s childhood cigarette habit!
Maria delivered an enlightening speech informing us of transactional analysis and how it impacts our day to day lives with Tom volunteering as a guinea pig. (Further reading: http://www.ericberne.com/transactional-analysis/) - Maria also bagged the grammarian's prize for word of the day usage. Congratulations Maria :)
Following Ted’s evaluation of Maria’s speech, we concluded club business which covered the summer social being hosted on the 26th of July at the Castle Hotel, Blarney from 1900 with an outdoor BBQ commencing at 2000. Cost is €20 and RSVPs to Anita on 0878418169.
The meeting concluded after 2200 and lived up to our word of the day!
Blarney Toastmasters will recommence on Tuesday 30th of August @ 2000 - see you then!