Distinguished Club Program

I am posting an email Kara Johnson sent with the DCP scoring. Lets do what we can this year to move up the rankings.

Hello everyone,

I thought I'd send you a quick email letting you know the exact point system for the DCP awards. (For those of you that were not there this evening, I described the DCP - off the top of my head - so I wanted to send a clarification.) Our club earned the DCP award for 2008-2009.

5-6 points - Distinguished

7-8 points - Select Distinguished

9-10 points - Presidents Distinguished

Membership Criteria for DCP: (Base + 5) or >= 20

Points that can be earned: (I put a * next to the points we earned - I did get mixed up a bit tonight)

1. Two CCs (Acronyms are below)

2. Two more CCs

3. One ACB, ACS, or ACG

4. One more ACB, ACS, or ACG

5. One CL, ALB, ALS or DTM *

6. One more CL, ALB, ALS or DTM

7. Four new members *

8. Four more new members *

9. Minimum of four officers trained during each of two training periods *

10. One membership dues renewal report and one club officer list submitted on time. *

CC - Competent Communicator

ACB - Advanced Communicator Bronze

ACS - Advanced Communicator Silver

ACG - Advanced Communicator Gold

CL - Competent Leader

ALB - Advanced Leader Bronze

ALS - Advanced Leader Silver

DTM - Distinguished Toastmaster

Note - we don't have to stop at four CCs or at any of the others. In fact, for CCs, the area earns points based on the number of CCs earned per area. The same is true of the district.

Anyway, this is just a bit of knowledge for you. Let me know of anything else you'd like to cover. One thing we will want to do is evaluation training. Now that several of you have done several speeches, we should get you ready to do some evaluations. Doing evaluations help advance your listening and critical thinking skills, plus more!

Have a great rest of your week!

Kara

Upcoming TELI July 18th

Hey everyone,

Toastmaster Education & Leadership Program will be on July 18th. Officers you will be able to get your training done! There will be three additional training sessions before the Luncheon Program at 1200.

For additional information go to the District 6 Toastmasters site.

July 8th Meeting Notes

We had a good turn out, with 10 members in attendance this week.

The word of the week is "Bon Mot." It is French for good word. For every one's reference, Word Master and Grammarian are two separate duties at Speakeasy. Larry and Gordon settled that.

Eric Fager served as Toastmaster.

Jim MacDonald used Bartlett's Familiar Quotations as the basis for a challenging round of Table Topics.

Melony Fender gave an impromptu speech about the Sci-Fi convention she attended, over the holiday weekend. Convergence is Imminent. It is established sonic screw drivers should be used, and not kept in there original packing for the 2109 antiques road show.

Kara Johnson talked to us about the Distinguished Club Plan. Hopefully this information will motivate us to score as many points as we can.

Best Joke was provided by Jim MacDonald.
Best Table Topic was given by Melanie Fender
Best Speaker was Kara Johnson
Best Evaluator was Gene Welch.

There where no guests this week to give us feedback on the meeting. The member discussion was about the length of the meeting. Our meetings are scheduled from 6:00 to 8:00, and we have the room from 5:30 to 8:30. Kara suggested we could exempt the Toastmaster and
scheduled speakers from participating in Table Topics.

July 1st Meeting Notes

This meeting marked the start of a new year for Speakeasy. This years club officers are now officially in office. Our officers are:

President Gene Welch

VP Education Kara Johnson

VP Membership Sharon Gifford

VP Public Relations Eric Fager

Secretary

Treasurer Dorth Woodard

Sergeant at Arms Jim MacDonald

Good luck to everyone and may this be another succesful year.