We held our elections on Wednesday May 14th for the officers for the next term 2014-2015. The following 6 (six)members were duly elected for the various officer positions. One slot (Secretary) is still open.

President………………Yumi Kushi CC CL
VP-Education…………Monica Malhotra
VP-Membership………Sam Sampath CC
VP-Public Relations….Don Howell CC CL
Secretary………………Ted Do
Treasurer………………Yas Osako CC
Sergeant At Arms…….Dean Buharie CC

We also celebrated our recognition by the Founders District at the last meeting on May 21! Group photo below.

REMINDER: 2014-2015 TERM La Palma Toastmasters (#1412788)Officer Elections will be held on Wednesday, May 14 at 6:30 PM during our regular meeting. Your attendance and participation is requested. There are 3 open slots. Please write or call and let me know if you are able and willing to support the running of the club! The officers may be sworn into office on May 21st by Area E4 Governor Angie Wahl. Thank you.

Here is the proposed officer slate:
Yumi Kushi-President
Monica Malhotra-VP-Education
Sam Sampath-VP-Education
OPEN-VP-Public Relations
OPEN-Secretary
Yas Osako-Treasurer
OPEN- Sergeant At Arms

Kris Krishna DTM
President
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Last meeting on Wednesday April 9th we had two speeches, one by Monica Malhotra and the second one by Kris Krishna. Monica gave a wonderful speech on stress management called “Put the glass down”. It was from the Competent Communications Manual.

Kris gave a speech on “Wind Energy Producibility” as part of the “Technical Presentations” from the Advanced Communication Series Manual.

Wendy Marano evaluated Monica’s speech and Whitney Zeldow evaluated Kris’ speech

Don Howell was Table Topics Master on the topic of “Earthquakes”. Yumi Kushi was the General Evaluator, Yas Osako the Timer and Soaliha Lakhani the Ah counter. 

Jean Kilroy was the Toastmaster for the day and she awarded the La Palma Trophy to Kris Krishna, pictured above!

Teo new members joined our La Palma Toastmasters club recently. Conner Yeon and Soaliha Lakhani who came in as Speecchcraft  attendees signed up. Both were given the La Palma Trophy by the Toastmasters presiding over the sessions for their speeches.!

**Our club meeting venue will change to La Palma Branch Library, 7842 Walker St, La Palma CA 90623 effective Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

**We are celebrating our 4th anniversary of our clubs chartering at our next meeting on Wednesday, March 12th. 

Our club is hosting a 5 week Speechcraft event starting Wednesday, March 5, 2014:

Speechcraft starts the first Wednesday in March 2014

We are now meeting again on Wednesdays 6:25 – 7:25pm at Buena Terra Elementary School, in the multipurpose room right next to the entrance/parking lot. The parking lot is off Holder St. The address is 8299 Holder St, Buena Park, CA 90620.

This location and time will be ours up until June 4, 2014. It will be summer break then (for the kids, not Toastmasters) and we’ll probably meet at a new location.

LACE training is an all day event that our club officers attend, but is also open to any member of Toastmasters. It only costs $12 for a full day of training, plus lunch.

Most of our officers are going to the Biola University day, and you can go too if you register by the end of the day on Wednesday.

Go here to find out what kind of courses they offer: http://www.foundersdistrict.org/lace-schedule

I’ll be attending the following courses:

• The Art and Science of Effective Evaluation – gotta train for when I’m a BOSS someday
• VP of Public Relations training – MANDATORY FOR ME
• lunch – best part
• Use Table Topics to get your new job/promotion – I plan on being promoted to CEO
• A fun group is a thriving group – I want to be fun!
• Advanced VP of PR training – I like to sneak into these suckers

Angie is teaching a course called Toastmasters for Dummies, so that should be fun too!