New Year, New Banner, New Baby

 Hi, Mudslingers! We are doing very well in the New Year. So far, so good. Agendas have been full. Meetings have kept their energy. We  continue to learn and grow.

Aundrae Romeo, our District 56 Lt. Governor of Education and Training, helped us ring in the new by delivering our  new banner. We all earned this banner by supporting the club in earning it's DCP  by October of last year.

Aundrae Romeo, Lt. Gov. Ed and Training (Left) and Stacy Franks, VP of Ed (Right)

Here is our group photo with the banner. Our course, several members were missing, but we will be sure to update our group photo for our new website soon.

Top Row (left to right): Patrick Tyczynski, Natalia Collins, Paulo Pauferro, Carolina Little, Martina Chambliss, Meghan Riley, Kathy Leu, and Glenda Munguia
Bottom Row (left to right): Stacy Franks, P.S. Balakrishnan, Eric Ngo, and James Stark

Announcements:

We also have a happy announcement to make on behalf of our fellow Mudslinger, Sashi Mettath. He and his lovely wife welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world last week. Welcome, baby Nikhil! The name means complete. Congratulations to Sashi and his family on such a special occasion. We are very happy for you. 

Accolades:

Carolina Little received recognition for completing her 5 th speech of her CC manual. 

Meghan Riley received recognition for completing her 2 nd speech of her CC manual. 

Glenda Munguia received recognition for completing her 3 rd speech of her CC manual. 

James Stark conducted his first Toastmaster role! 

Paulo Pauferro conducted his first role with the club as time keeper! 
Glenda Muguia is our new club photographer. Thanks for volunteering for this much needed role! 

Business:

Please contact any of the club officers or Kim Ballew (website administrator) to learn how to use our new FreeToastHost website. The new site is very user-friendly and is important to use to sign up for roles and speeches.  You can also find links to all of the club's social networking sites there, too. Here is the link to our new website: http://mudslingers.toastmastersclubs.org/

We are also linked in to our Career Development and Training Site on our M-I SWACO intranet home page. Please feel free to promote this link to your peers as well. 

Don't forget to sign up for next week's meeting and to plan ahead for your speeches. You may contact Stacy Franks, VP of Education, to help assist you with your planning and also to place you on the roster. 

Happy Weekend, Mudslingers!