First Oakville first in Toastmasters

That’s in my humble opinion. Got to go last night (I teach photography most Thursday nights) and was joined by over 30 other Toastmasters and guests.

We can’t keep newcomers away. Worse they usually join. All kidding aside, this is a great problem for any Toastmaster club.

A Toastmaster club needs around 20 people to be successful (as there are about 20 jobs that need doing every night) and a membership around 30 to 35 is perfect.

Heck we’ve got that number just showing up every meeting.

Now we’ve got our Charter Party scheduled for Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14 and the executive had to get more tickets printed!

Check out Toastmasters in your city or town.

Toastmaster video

The LEB Toastmaster Club in Stanford University has a great video on You Tube. They’ve got 60 members which makes it a BIG club. This video will give you a nice introduction into Toastmasters.

The inaugural address

In a few days, on Jan. 20, Barack Obama will deliver is inaugural address as he is sworn in as America’s 44th president.

In what could be defining speech of our time, Obama faces a history of pretty terrible speak-making by most of the former presidents of the U.S.A.

On the other hand, Obama has shown the ability to move large numbers of people both in person as in Chicago on the night of his win or by radio and TV where he has reached out to the citizens of the world.

Not since John Kennedy’s Jan. 20, 1961 inaugural address has the hopes of so many been concentrated on the words of one man with the ability to speak to something deep within us.

Time will decide whether we will be witnesses to history being made in eight days from now.